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Gliding gracefully
Flying high within the clouds
Satiated feel
Bird’s right to be free
Natural phenomena
But some all caged up
Same injustice is
also inflicted by
man
against fellow men
Written for Chev's CARPE DIEM #29 with prompt -flying- and Real Toad's Open Link Monday
What a lovely haiku ... the message is really beautiful !!!
ReplyDeleteThe first is my favorite as is is absolute freedom.
ReplyDeleteI suppose that makes the other two inevitable.
There's a circularity here that does, as Susan says, seem inevitable.
ReplyDeleteliked the first stanza , set the other two up nicely
ReplyDeletetrue man....we do limit one another taking away their ability to fly, and i am not thinking of jail but...
ReplyDeleteYes, true, absolutely true. For what it's worth, I think the first stanza(?) far superior to the following two.
ReplyDeleteBe fun to actually fly, up in the sky. But yeah clipping somes wings seems to come all to soon, knocking them down to a baboon.
ReplyDeleteThe first is my favourite, too...
ReplyDeleteI like the flight to freedom ~
ReplyDeleteHave a good week Hank ~
YES! Last night I watched Land of Blood and Honey about the war in Sarajevo - very realistic look at the horrors of war and what it does to civilians as well as soldiers. Your poem makes me think of all of this. I hate cages on principle, for critters and for humans. Good one, Hank.
ReplyDeletepoetically, I like the first best, but the entire set has much merit - I am very verbal in my opinion of caging anything....Pet stores make me cry, and prisons only encourage rage.....
ReplyDeleteWow, I especially enjoyed the first but the set has great merit as a whole poem. Many levels of freedom or lack expressed here. Good work.
ReplyDeleteVery well expressed haiku with some heavy messages there ~very creative writing ~ (A Creative Harbor) ^_^
ReplyDeleteI think there's a part of a caged bird that flies despite the bars...
ReplyDeleteFlying
The first is also my favorite--beautifully done
ReplyDeletewell written...may we all find our freedom, one way or another.
ReplyDeleteThoughtful all!
ReplyDeletePowerful...I love the voice in this poem!
ReplyDeleteHow you projected the view and who are we to judge?!
Nice haiku message about the right to freedom, both for men and animals. My favorite one is the first.
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imposed limitations. I think that is why when we see nature like this, we are often spellbound.
ReplyDeleteLove the message. Unfortunately some people are good at clipping other people's wings either for their own selfish reasons or just plain wickedness/jealousy. I believe in an individual's basic need to be free (when they are not in prison).
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