Birds, I mean.
Yep. They show up in poems all the time.
Sometimes they are even the sole focus of entire collections and anthologies. This truth makes it challenging to write about birds in a way that feels original and surprising.
Doesn’t mean you can’t do it.
Write a poem that uses birds as its subject or as its image and metaphor. And–you guessed it–make it original and surprising.
This is a great opportunity to play with paradoxes and analogies.
Here are poems from Zingara Poetry Review for inspiration:
“Blackbird” by Yvette R. Murray
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