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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two birds on a tree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look at this old photograph..<br>some of these old photos look<br>more ancient than their, what, <br>hundred-and-twenty years; <br>as if the very air was different, then? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This one’s simply of<br>two birds in a tree: <br>one sits and watches; <br>the other eats the fruits..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this moment, frozen, framed, in time, <br>takes on the epic stature<br>of a metaphor, a myth: <br>what of the previous second<br>in our passing time? What<br>of the next second? <br>Where have those birds come from, <br>where may they go next? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If we cease to patronise<br>their ‘bird-brains’, see them<br>closer to their God than we<br>whose minds depart so far from nature…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">if we think they think, in thoughts<br>which we may share – then, <br>what are they thinking? what<br>do they think of one another? <br>I look again at the photo, speculate; <br>the photo grows in my concern<br>to some great tree of primal Paradise…<br>the Tree of Knowledge, could it be? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is the one bird thinking, <br>what a fine place this is to rest! <br>A place to hide, if so need be, <br>among its leaves; a height, <br>an observation post, <br>I still, the world about its business; <br>in stillness, I a little nearer to God, <br>just a little lower than the angels, <br>without beating my wings to find<br>a heaven above…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is the other bird thinking, <br>what a fine restaurant I’ve found, <br>that God provided; I so hungry<br>on my way; how much I need to eat<br>to give me strength for further flight…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and have these two birds even noticed<br>each other, and each other’s state? <br>Are they two siblings from the self-same nest, <br>flying together through their lives; <br>loving one another until the last birdfall? <br>Two rivals, just about to fight to death? <br>Or, two fore-flyers of the same great flock, <br>about to land and strip the tree of fruit, <br>then rest, God-filled, to know Him in that stillness? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These thoughts; an ancient photograph; <br>now I wonder about the unknown photographer<br>who saw the world, in two birds on a tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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some of these old photos look
more ancient than their, what, 
hundred-and-twenty years; 
as if the very air was different, then? 

This one’s simply of
two birds in a tree: 
one sits and watches; 
the other eats the..."></div>
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