Calling all creative writers. Seeking poems, shorts stories, vignettes – any creative writing promoted by this image of an antique birdcage.
We’ve all been living in our cages for over a year, the doors are starting to open, will we leave the safety of the cage?
Selected writings will be featured in this blog. Send submissions to On30On18@gmail.com – have fun!
The caged bird sings
Excerpt Caged Bird from BY MAYA ANGELOU
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.
There is a birdcage
on a table,
next to a window
whose curtains are
blowing
The Birdcage is
empty.
Excerpt from ““A girl with a bird she found in the snow” by Maggie McEvoy
My thoughts are somewhere else. But the noises are following me around.
Leave me alone! Can’t I just block it all out?
Get away from the noise, all the sound. All the people who make me this miserable….
No. I’m still sitting here. Trapped in the birdcage, with noises all around.
Excerpt from “Trapped in the birdcage again” by Luna Montez
Oh how cozy we’ve made our cage
First felt trapped with a bit of rage
Now that the door opens, freedom waits
Will we venture out or seal our fates?
Edward Fielding
She’s only a bird in a gilded cage, A beautiful sight to see, You may think she’s happy and free from care, She’s not, though she seems to be, ‘Tis sad when you think of her wasted life, For youth cannot mate with age, And her beauty was sold, For an old man’s gold, She’s a bird in a gilded cage. – Except from “A Bird in a Gilded Cage” by Arthur J. Lamb