<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399672" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The parrot</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cage in like in a prison<br>it walks up and down<br>and looks at itself in the mirror<br>and it gets food and water<br>and the days pass<br>and water and food it gets<br>and in its prison it has to stay<br>and it remembers the green woods<br>and the odours of bananas<br>and berries and nuts<br>and the blue sky<br>that is open and free<br>and streams<br>where the most delicious water flows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It calls to its mate<br>and ask for salvation<br>and nobody and nothing comes<br>and out of the humdrum<br>it starts to imitate sounds<br>and its people<br>take it out of its cage<br>and scratches its head<br>and cuts its wings<br>and bring delicacies, <br>but back to its prison<br>it must go en its serve it sentence<br>until it dies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</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=399672" data-title="The parrot de Gert Strydom" data-description="Cage in like in a prison it walks up and down and looks at itself in the mirror and it gets food and water and the days pass and water and food it gets and in its prison it has to stay and it remembers the green woods and the odours of bananas and..."></div> </div> </div>

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