If I were a bird, to utter my first word
I truly would wish to say your humans are absurd
With all us wonderful creatures: First, upon an un-polluted earth
You crowd us out, with too many a human birth
Then flock to the zoos with camera and kid
Then fail to lay claim
our pending extinction:
Human population is to blame
When 'too' few a wise humans; in protest explain
The rest of you in unison resist and complain
If these humans dare to utter, without us animals you can't exist
The rest of you question: What are you, an activist?
The next time you visit a creature at the zoo
Ask yourself, without us whatever will you do?
C.R. YING
One day when I grow older
Wings, I wish to sprout,
So I can jump into the sky,
Fly round and all about.
Someday, when I am wiser,
I'll look up in the sky,
Spread my wings and glide,
Through clouds of cotton and sigh.
One day, when I become a hawk,
Or an eagle, tall and proud,
The day when I'm a lovely Macaw,
In a beautiful and colorful shroud.
I'll free with all the other birds,
A flyer,
Oh so true I'll be one.... With the sky,
The sky above that's blue.
EMILY 'TIEL KID' BRIGGS, AGG 12,
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