Showing posts with label song of joy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label song of joy. Show all posts

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Song


Ella's prompt today at the Thursday Think Tank is to write a poem based on a quote that we like. I have collected quotes for decades, and one of my favorites is "A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." Online sources attribute this quote to Maya Angelou, as well as listing it as  an old Chinese proverb.  I dont know which is correct. 


Sometimes
the body
is not large enough
to contain
the joy of
being alive -

and then,
they call it
Song.