In the Forest of Life
by Mike Yuan
like an open cage
like a free hotel
my balcony has become a home
to many wild city birds
pigeons philosophizing in private
seagulls stalking with arrogance
crows beaking at unseen seeds
sparrows quarreling non-stop
on the branched-out railings
behind the dusk dyed wall
sometimes all alone
more often in company
looking out of my wingless window
i find myself to be one of them
coming to perch here by chance
but ready to flee by need
(sept.11, 2004)
End of the poem
15 random poems
- one_almost_might.html
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию 1747 года перед зимним домом
- Andromeda poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Mi ha el by Vinko Kalinić
- Sonnet 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is by William Shakespeare
- Джон Донн – Любовная наука
- On Being Challenged to Write an Epigram in the Manner of Herrick by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Иван Бунин – Надпись на могильной плите
- Last Words poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Story of Uriah by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonet 51 by William Alexander
- Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: Inscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet:
- Sonet 4 by William Alexander
- Come home, sweetheart by Raj Arumugam
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