<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=493860" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Blackbird Metaphor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Beatles had it <br>as the struggle for freedom of the blacks<br>that blackbird singing in the dark<br>wanting to be free</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Americans<br>had that blackbird swirling in Vietnam<br>that chopper that saved lives<br>that war that caused them humiliation<br>in the world's opinion<br>that lie of Nixon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Steven Wallace had eight ways of seeing<br>that blackbird <br>Noah sent that blackbird<br>that did not come back since it was happy<br>picking on the rotten flesh<br>of the remains of the dead<br>the ninth way<br>of seeing <br>disobedience</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One writes again about the blackbird<br>that lives singing the songs of neurosis<br>in his mind <br>at winter time<br>The poet commits suicide<br>His colleagues bury him<br>with eulogies and ' what ifs'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One sleeps with a blackbird<br>The other sings with a blackbird<br>Someone flew away with a blackbird<br>and did not come back<br>since then<br>So many stories<br>So many poems are written</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now i have to write about this blackbird too<br>But there shall be no disturbance<br>No unhappy ending<br>I swear to you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=493860" data-title="The Blackbird Metaphor de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="the Beatles had it as the struggle for freedom of the blacks that blackbird singing in the dark wanting to be free the Americans had that blackbird swirling in Vietnam that chopper that saved lives that war that caused them humiliation in the wo..."></div> </div> </div>

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