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November 15, 2025
Madness

 

Madness Cannot Sing

Your head is a living forest 
          full of songbirds.
               ~E.E. Cummings

The songbirds in my head
are chirping melodically,
and unlike the voices
the birds make no demands.

The voices want me dead
chanting evil plans rhapsodically,
but trilling birds notate a different choice
toward a path to other lands.

Lands where voices can be shed,
lands wherein I dwell harmonically,
lands where psyche can rejoice
without annoying ampersands!
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Etgen-Baker Avatar
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
outstanding rhyme scheme that flowed . Your poem is flawless. Faving.
Achara Avatar
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Thank you.
Rodrigues Avatar
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Finding myself breathless as I read of the angst and hope of the soothing melody of birds. Hugs
Achara Avatar
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I’m happy you liked this poem. Thank you.
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