Birds – Vögel – Des Oiseaux

Scribe Writing Prompt: A Poem for Wildlife

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The poem that follows was in answer to a prompt from Thomas Gaudex in ‘Scribe’. I didn’t have time to finish the edit before the deadline so I am publishing here.

The editor suggested I separate the poems into individual ones. Originally I had the lines arranged in the languages that I first imagined them in. I think it was Elvira Yuzbay who wrote about writing in different languages as a way into sparser writing. I had that in mind too. Hope you enjoy my ropey French and German. It has been a while. Couldn’t find all the accents….

Birds

Birds –

There you are

Are you hungry?

I love you

I think the trees love you too

I would like to speak the language of birds

I want your dreams

I want stars, trees, leaves, and flowers

What do you want?

Freedom?

Me too

The thing is

Everybody else wants gold

Vögel

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