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[title] => A Little Sparrow Sang To Me
[time] => 2004-08-26 02:33:44
[hometext] => Just something inspired by Poe's 'The Raven'. Though with a slightly different lilt on things. I dunno just some more expressions of a bored and tired mind. We all have 'a little bird' on our 'chamber door'. I wonder what the songs are for you....?
[bodytext] => I was out in town that day through busy streets and alley ways as often times my gaze was tied to cobbled stones and dusty strides in thoughts and deeds a solliloquay a lonely and dispassionate lad. Moving on through busy throngs deftly stepping won't tarry long my business brisk then off to home for in this town I am all alone never to be or ever to belong on these foreign shores never my own. Then a gentle rumour tickled my bones a windy flavour borne by flighty tunes upon eaves I glimpsed a dappled creature clad in yellow feathers and merry cheers and where it danced the very sky did shone in its song a melody of million laughters. In that empty maw where my heart is kept a spark, a flicker, a once forgotten light "awaken!" sang the sparrow "tarry not in dreamless state" "remember" it said "life is like a piece of cake" "to reap its flavour, the happy or the sad" "you must take a bite and taste what life dictates". I was intriuged and just interested enough to began to seek this little sparrow of laughs but even as I raced to where I spied it last it would jump, hop and fly away too fast here and there, I was led around the bough but catch that litle bird I never did, alas. Until later, much later did I surrender to rest for my stength was drained by this silly little jest then the sparrow did perch once more over my head and whispered "tarry not for there are dreams to be had" then it up and flew away leaving me with nothing at best but beyond that flighty bird, there are other things that life begets. I lifted my eyes and found in wonder that the streets does seem to be now a little calmer the alleys are no longer darkened in shadows but are sprinkled with life's many rainbows there are people here that I once never would hear and things to do that would keep me for hours. I have wandered far it seems in pursuit of the sparrow that I have found again what I have long enclosed in the shadows my downcast eyes are free to roam all the colours my shuttered heart now feel all of life's little flavours long have I ambled on this path of straight and narrow now am I free to wander to reap what life has to ofer. I am out in town most these here days through familiar streets and friendly alleys as often times my gaze would sweep at all the richness that life does keep of all the things, the people, the sights and sounds at play O! what a lovely place is this here town indeed. A little sparrow sang to me a song of life and in all its glee though I never did see that sparrow again I would sometimes hear its song in refrain "awaken" it would say "harken to me" "for life is never meant to be in vain". [comments] => 3 [counter] => 185 [topic] => 43 [informant] => Baronhawk [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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