The bluebirds are free to choose as much as shown by your verse. Even the combo pics aptly convey that impression - they face whichever direction they choose. Nicely Susie!
I can imagine...when I visited my parents this past summer...the place where I grew up is all paved over...sidewalks and highways everywhere. I had to seek wild each day on my walks...really seek it out.
I am blessed to live where I do now and feel gratitude every day.
You speak truth with longing. I like the poem and the pics! It reminded me of the problem with city lights at Palomar and other huge observatories: as it becomes harder and harder to have true night, it becomes harder and harder to see. I imagine artificial light scatters wildlife just as concrete does, though not as absolutely.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.....this so reminded me of that song and the sadness that we are losing our open lands to houses and businesses etc. Great subject and great writing.
Maybe you could take a yellow taxi and follow the blue birds.....I understand how you feel here, but Spring will sprung soon....time flies that is for sure! Love this Susie! ;-)
You may be too young to have this song in your memory bank:
""Big Yellow Taxi" (feat. Vanessa Carlton)
[Adam Duritz] They paved paradise and put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot ... [and a lot more]"
for the rest: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/countingcrows/bigyellowtaxi.html ..
You speak to my heart... I love listening to the birds... they always have so much to say. And how awful would it be if we cemented them out of our lives. This is very lovely.
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Put up a parking-lot' and all that.
i guess we're going to end up having to go over the rainbow to find the bluebirds...
lovely write.
♥
Hank
I am blessed to live where I do now and feel gratitude every day.
Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun
Is just a bright spot
In the nighttime
""Big Yellow Taxi"
(feat. Vanessa Carlton)
[Adam Duritz]
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
... [and a lot more]"
for the rest:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/countingcrows/bigyellowtaxi.html
..
K