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This Life Is For The Birds

Matthew 6:26 "Consider the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?"  
 
I wanted to write a poem about birds.  
I wanted to write a poem that shares the song of the Nightingale.  
I wanted to write a poem that uses the lonely call of the Rain Crow at dusk.  
I wanted to write a poem that shares the drumming of a Woodpecker on a tree in the not too distant woods.  
I wanted to write a poem that records the mimicking of the Mockingbird atop a telephone pole.  
I wanted to write a poem about the haunting "Hoots!" of the Owl in the darkness of the night.  
I wanted to write a poem that shares the ordinary chirping of common yardbirds on a sunny day.  
I wanted to write a poem in honor of the honking Canada Geese returning to the winter pond.  
And I wanted to write a poem about birds that fly away in formation migrating and how they somehow just know where to go, and how they are replaced by absence and silence.  
But all I was able to write is a poem about the story of my life.
Written by Seed
Published | Edited 12th Feb 2025
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