Monday, January 13, 2003

The Kookaburras Comments

Rating: 4.5

In every heart there is a coward and a procrastinator.
In every heart there is a god of flowers, just waiting
to stride out of a cloud and lift its wings.
The kookaburras, pressed against the edge of their cage,
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Mary Oliver
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Charles Chaim Wax 29 March 2006

forever inward year after year into Insight brightens even the sad memory of doom since next time the cage shall crumble in your presence a wonderful poem

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Jerry Hughes 18 December 2005

from my earliest recollection I hated to see birds in cages. This sad poem adds weight to those thoughts...

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