Query
I asked the birds
who sing at night
where they learned their songs,
and what they sang about.
who sing at night
where they learned their songs,
and what they sang about.
They said, "We learn
from
birds who sing by day,
but what we sing about
is hard for us to say."
birds who sing by day,
but what we sing about
is hard for us to say."
"Only those with beak
and wing can fathom joy
in dark and doubt.
The sky may turn to evening
and the sun to moon,
but we sing
of what you do not speak -
how night is sometimes noon,
how any season of the soul
can, with time, be coaxed to spring."
and wing can fathom joy
in dark and doubt.
The sky may turn to evening
and the sun to moon,
but we sing
of what you do not speak -
how night is sometimes noon,
how any season of the soul
can, with time, be coaxed to spring."
~ Jean Burden
~
(Poetry, Fall
2002)
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