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Yashodhara - Buddha

...A shadow dims Yashodhara's vibrant gaze, "My love," she murmurs, "lost in wisdom's maze. A prince you were, with riches at your hand, Yet craved a truth beyond this earthly land.” "A deeper ......

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Categories: bird in a gilded cage, confidence, heartbroken, husband, i
Form: Free verse

A Bird In a Gilded Cage

...I was condemned from the first day I saw you. Bewitched, enamored for ever by your inexplicable beauty. Little did I know where you were to lead me. I was a slave to Eros, a fickle love god......

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Categories: bird in a gilded cage, lost love,
Form: Free verse

The Less Edifying Second Verse

...I 'She's only a bird in a gilded cage,' so a well-known song has once told. She married a man well advanced in years for the sake of his riches and gold. ......

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Categories: bird in a gilded cage, allusion, corruption, irony,
Form: Burlesque

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

She's Only a Bird In a Gilded Cage, An Unsung Sequel

...When the old fellow died, the cage opened wide, and a very rich chick Madov mighty quick. Moral strictures aren't always a guide.......

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Categories: bird in a gilded cage, marriage, money, society,
Form: Burlesque

Super Budgie

...Blue bird in a gilded cage: But not as much as a single whistle from it, and no piping, not even a proverbial peep, only deafening silence from behind the bars. To get the little ......

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Categories: bird in a gilded cage, art, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry

Mirabel

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Within the Crescent City, an exotic beauty dwells. Amid spires and temple domes, finds the Priestess, Mirabel. Her hair the color of Raven wings, almond eyes a sultry......

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Categories: bird in a gilded cage, fantasybeauty, beauty,
Form: Rhyme