Friday, June 28, 2013

The tame bird was in a cage !








The tame bird was in a cage, the free bird was in the forest.

They met when the time came, it was a decree of fate.

The free bird cries, "O my love, let us fly to the wood."


The cage bird whispers, "Come hither, let us both live in the cage."
Says the free bird, "Among bars, where is there room to spread one's wings?"

"Alas," cries the caged bird, "I should not know where to sit perched in the sky."






The free bird cries, "My darling, sing the songs of the woodlands."

The cage bird sings, "Sit by my side, I'll teach you the speech of the learned."


The forest bird cries, "No, ah no! songs can never be taught."
The cage bird says, "Alas for me, I know not the songs of the woodlands."








There love is intense with longing, but they never can fly wing to wing.
Through the bars of the cage they look, and vain is their wish to know each other.

They flutter their wings in yearning, and sing, "Come closer, my love!"
The free bird cries, "It cannot be, I fear the closed doors of the cage."

The cage bird whispers, "Alas, my wings are powerless and dead.” 









Summer of Color week 3 prompt is Lime green and Purple
and so here is my third birdie on the branch !!




I am loving it !!


28 comments:

  1. Perfect colors for your parrot, and so cute, upside down!
    The font looks too small in my monitor to read it, unfortunately.

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  2. Fantastic boidie-I enjoy coming to visit although I find it so hard to read your font.Happy PPF to you.

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  3. Beautiful trio, Ritu! Ah, to be free and have wings! :-)

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  4. Oh how I love these birdies and the parrot is especially cool being purple and lime green!! Very pretty!

    Hugs Giggles

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  5. Your parrot is spectacular - I love his character and he looks so cool in those colours - beautiful painting.

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  6. Lovely watercolors... That Summer of color painting is looking wonderful...<3

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  7. wonderful birdie and story too! Thank you so much! Happy PPF!

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  8. Loving your gorgeous work Rita. Happy PPF, Annette x

    http://nettysartadventures.blogspot.co.uk/

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  9. Love your birds for SOC! HPPF!

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  10. Sweet and silly parrot hanging from the branch. Happy PPF xox

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  11. Love the story along with your colorful birds!!

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  12. Wonderful story, beautiful art. Thank you and Happy PPF

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  13. Wonderful example of the colors for the SOC works. Your birds, all three, are expertly drawn and painted.

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  14. Beautiful story, so sad. Your birds are wonderful.

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  15. Omgoosh these are so wonderful. I love these bird paintings.
    Nicole/Beadwright

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  16. I love what you're doing with the birds - and I really love this upside one!

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  17. Gorgeous birds, Ritu :). I'm in love with the story :). I hope they get to fly together by end of summer!

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  18. Wonderful story and beautiful painting of birds. I love the blossom on the tree and the upside down parrot

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  19. Very nice! As I said last time: really looking forward to see this work next week :-D

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  20. I'm loving it too! The parrot looks great and the story that goes with it is beautiful as well!
    Happy PPF
    Ilona xx

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  21. I love the way you are weaving fables with your beautiful art to feed our spirits. You captured the playful personality of the parrot perfectly too. Blessings, my friend!

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  22. Wonderful! I LOVE words with art. You weave beautiful stories with your watercolors...! Your purple and lime green parrot is just perfect for the whimsical and happy Summer of Color!!! I wonder what next week's color combo will be?!!

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  23. That's a sad poem. Love your third bird on the branch, and the fact that it's upside-down ....

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  24. What a sad poem! Loving your birds on the other hand, and love your pen lines. Gorgeous work.

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  25. Oh my goodness! I absolutely love your birds and how you used the colors this past week!

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  26. Fantastic birds- every one of them!

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