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
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- Pensive and Faltering. by Walt Whitman
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Much In Little by Yvor Winters
- An Eare-Stringe by William Strode
- Владимир Маяковский – Два Берлина
- Beside The Idle Summer Sea by William Ernest Henley
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- Василий Курочкин – Дама приятная во всех отношениях
- Watching Unto God In The Night Season (3) by William Cowper
- Complimentary Epigram to Mrs. Riddell by Robert Burns
- Feeling Lazy poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- Иннокентий Анненский – Из участковых монологов
- Robin Hood poem – John Keats poems
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