<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353052" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Homage To The Turkey (Second Try) ....[Birds; American History]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sent off as suggested, my first effort to my Italian friend Carmi.<br>She read it and then requested something 'lower key'; to me that's Irish blarney! <br>I had mentioned, first time, Ben Franklin's affection for The Turkey; she thought THAT was nice.<br>I didn't mind naming Ben the first time around; this will make it twice.<br> <br>Ben was famous as a diplomat when America was newly 'free'.<br>He was also an inventor I believe. I think once he used a 'lower key'<br>while performing an experiment with lightning, Nature's electricity.<br>It involved using a kite, and a kite string on which was tied a key ('lower'?) .<br>But back to Turkey: Ben thought the native Turkey to be noble as could be.<br>Despite Ben's efforts, the Bald Eagle, instead, was picked as a symbol of 'The Land of The Free'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I must admit I admire and enjoy seeing both birds I did now name, <br>but the Eagle's pictured on money and well protected, while the Turkey's wild game.<br>Turkeys can be quite majestic when they strut about, their feathers ruffled and spread, <br>but unlike the soaring Eagle, in turkey season a hunter may shoot a turkey dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death would not be my preference for either of these noble birds. I wonder now<br>if Carmi is reading and enjoying at least some of my words.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I helped New York Conservation Department return Turkeys to my home state. <br>That was near Ithaca, where in the 1960's, no turkey had been seen of late.<br>I guess the effort worked. In late years I saw turkeys; Toms and at times a hen.<br>They probably emigrated from Pennsylvania, to the south, the state of dear old Ben.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've never heard an eagle cry, but to hear a Turkey gobble from woods is thrilling.<br>Carmi I would have voted for The Turkey. Alas! The Eagle got top billing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"> (Nov.2012)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bri+Edwards">Bri Edwards</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353052" data-title="Homage To The Turkey (Second Try) ....[Birds; American History] de Bri Edwards" data-description="I sent off as suggested, my first effort to my Italian friend Carmi. She read it and then requested something 'lower key'; to me that's Irish blarney! I had mentioned, first time, Ben Franklin's affection for The Turkey; she thought THAT was nice..."></div> </div> </div>

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