6 June 2011

BIRD SONGS

The bird flies free
Knowing no boundaries
Borders mean nothing
When you have wings

My heart and my soul
Long to follow and soar
Out over mountains
And deserts and seas

I have no wings
And earth presses in
Wrapped in a sheet
Forever to lie

Weighed down by dirtclods
Never to feel
Wind on my wings
Sun on my back

Soaring and flying
Freedom is coming
Here am I wanting
To know it one day

24 comments:

Jake said...

I hope you are safe. You are in my thoughts and prayer.

J.level said...

Be uber well. We pray for you

Nivair said...

I love your writing and honor your activism so much. Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers as I hope that you will soon be safe and well!

laurie said...

‎~ sending you light brave bird & praying for you to go back home safe soon & free... :)♥

CHERYL L. DAYTEC-YAÑGOT said...

I read this poem today and I was struck by how it echoes the feelings of many of us who are all in prisons of our own, and how the bird has come to represent our dream of freedom. I have an old poem myself called "Bird Wings" which I am posting as my comment:

BIRD WINGS

Come, my jailer, come closer,
I am too weak to move to you

Chains have broken my body
But my spirit is unbeaten, firm

Come feel the shape of my wish
From this- my gasping breath

Strike me with your bloodied gaff
I will be grateful to you, my jailer

Death is like my pair of bird wings
Your gaff the chain around your soul.

Maisha said...

Amina, your poem is much stronger than mine, and the words mean much more to your situation at the moment, but I saw the above comment and wanted to add my similar poem, too.

May our birds of freedom fly together.

THE BIRDS WE SPEAK OF

we speak as if
we are
releasing birds
from between our lips
wings tickling our tongues
all of us knowing
an outspread wing means
freedom.

and we don’t speak of the locks
that hold shut
cage doors
the wings we’ve clipped
those birds that will never
fly outside of our minds
never spread a soaring feather
to touch the rolling surface
of our tongues

if we let escape the words
that mean freedom
has freedom left our bodies?
left us all wound up
after we let the free birds go
to stay and listen to the chatter
of the caged birds
still locked inside?

DWP152 said...

Powerful poems from both Amina and Maisha. Our prayers are with Amina and with you all

Anonymous said...

FREEDOM!

Andrew said...

You have such a beautiful passion in your words! You're heart is strong and radiates that strength through those you speak out for!! I hope they find you unscathed, Amina!! You are the change your country's regime is afraid of!!!

Claudia said...

leave a hello to you from Brazil!!

Anonymous said...

I hope u return safe and sound. Your poem was very powerful. God be with you

Anonymous said...

This reminds me of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." I really hope Amina will be safe.

Anonymous said...

May you once again fly as free as the bird in your "song"
Alex

williamlambton said...

Beautiful poem.

Anonymous said...

They can put everyone in prison, but they cannot imprison freedom... this idea, this thought, this yearning, this desire; can never be imprisoned...

Pagan Presence said...

Be safe. Be well. Find your wings.

cleo said...

love the various poems in here, hoping that the poets still are between us and live free in a free country, for as far as our "free' is really FREE!

Wally Keeler said...

Freedom is hot.
Bondage is not.

cathrin said...

wish you will be free again in a while.

cathrin from berlin

Anonymous said...

Let hope not die on a mile stone
let there be no tears,be all gone
take wings,soar high and be gone
smile,laugh and never mourn

Nicoletta said...

wish you will be free soon
you're in my thoughts

the wild magnolia said...

I pray for your safe return, I wish we humans were wiser.

Anonymous said...

I have no wings
And earth presses in
Wrapped in a sheet
Forever to lie...

THE LIE IS SOON OVER. BUT WILL YOU EVER BE FREE?

Amina seems you are still writing and following...

"Let hope not die on a mile stone
let there be no tears,be all gone
take wings,soar high and be gone
smile,laugh and never mourn"

Is this you? But you are still anonymous.

Anonymous said...

I've found this blog through an israeli news site article about you being missing. Read just two or three posts but wanted to share my sincere and candid appreciation of the way you write in the most beautiful english that even I can read and understand. My 'people' and yours are often viewed as enemies and this to me is so sad thinking we could also be seen as simply neighbours - which has to be much easier to handle. Your poetic words spark a light even in this jewish-israeli heart, I hope and pray you're well and get back to writing as soon as possible. Only the best of wishes and best of luck. Peace.

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