THE CAGED BIRD
The Poetic Medic 2002 (Sokoto)
THE CAGED BIRD
I know of the tale
of a caged bird
And there, in it's cage,
it sings really beautiful songs
of pain, of sorrow,
of things to come, of freedom
but no one ever said
how it got caged
Did it walked into the cage
or was it in someway, deceived?
Or was it was captured
and stripped of its freedom?
And so the bird,
looking past inhibitions, decided that
since it couldn't use its wings,
it would use its voice
and somehow,
that brought it solace
And this very tale,
got me thinking
That maybe, the most
beautiful of songs
comes from the most
vulnerable of states;
maybe the most
beautiful of stories
are born from the things
that seem to hold us back.
About this poem
It's about the fact that sometimes we are in our own cage and maybe we don't know how we ended up there, but somehow, it brings us peace.
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Written on March 18, 2023
Submitted by oluwafemi_o on March 24, 2023
Modified on March 26, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A BA CD XE XX CX AE AX FX XX BX GD GX GX FX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 676 |
Words | 151 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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