with poetryetc email turned into a twittering machine birds have got
everywhere in my mind -
bird poems - I recently enjoyed Farrid ud-Din Attar's Mantik ut-Tair
(Speeches of the Birds) in its rather elegant translation by E Fitzgerald
("I have provided a bird's eye view of the Bird Poem"):
Then came the subtle Parrot in a coat
Greener than Greensward, and about his throat
A Collar ran of sub-sulphureous Gold;
And in his Break a Sugar-Plum he troll'd,
That all his Words with luscious Lisping ran...
and i also re-read Quentin Blake's illustrated Eurip. THE BIRDS and his UP
WITH BIRDS! While listening to that Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus, concerto
with birds and orchestra, with the migrating swans in it...
Edmdun
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