[Ohio-Talk] It's National Poetry Month! Enjoy from the Ohio Community service Committee

[Patricia McPherson]

Absolutely beautiful



> On Apr 25, 2021, at 5:57 PM, Wanda via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I read that book, " I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" , years ago while I had sight.
> I know with you dealing on the Task Force brings out those emotional feelings and this is helping you to smooth out those bubbling bad feeling of rememberance of those issues that you had to suffer with.
> God Bless You My Sister!
> Wan here
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohio-Talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cheryl Fields via Ohio-Talk
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2021 5:07 PM
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> Cc: Cheryl Fields <cherylelaine1957 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Ohio-Talk] It's National Poetry Month! Enjoy from the Ohio Community service Committee
> 
> Caged Bird
> 
> A free bird leaps
> on the back of the wind
> and floats downstream
> till the current ends
> and dips his wing
> in the orange sun rays
> and dares to claim the sky.
> 
> But a bird that stalks
> down his narrow cage
> can seldom see through
> his bars of rage
> his wings are clipped and
> his feet are tied
> so he opens his throat to sing.
> 
> The caged bird sings
> with a fearful trill
> of things unknown
> but longed for still
> and his tune is heard
> on the distant hill
> for the caged bird
> sings of freedom.
> 
> The free bird thinks of another breeze
> and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn and he names the sky his own
> 
> But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.
> 
> The caged bird sings
> with a fearful trill
> of things unknown
> but longed for still
> and his tune is heard
> on the distant hill
> for the caged bird
> sings of freedom.
> 
> Maya Angelou, “Caged Bird” from Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? Copyright © 1983 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
> 
> 
> 
> A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
> --D. Elton Trueblood
> 
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