The Caged Bird
It's time
for the caged bird to sing,
as for she is closed,
in not a soundproof cage.
She can't fly,
but she can sing,
can be heard,
for her closed in rage.
She sees a barrier, a limit, a wall,
nothing between the grilles.
She is smaller, in the cage that is small,
her beak is taped closed, she feels.
In all this time she learned:
can do nothing, she is locked.
She didn't think she was heard
when with singing voice, she talked.
About this poem
The popularity of the mindset that we, creatures, humans, women, young girls can't talk, or aren't heard, simply because of the illusion we are raised to believe in, that our lives are our homes, and even if they are cages they are our safety and not our freedom as they should be, and we don't think we should talk because we think we can't and we think we can't simply cause we are told we shouldn't.
Written on September 26, 2022
Submitted by hadjiskaj on September 26, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXBXACB DEDE XXCX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 434 |
Words | 100 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4 |
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