poetry

Birds
by Alfrredo Navarro Salanga

With no lips,
how can birds sing?

Ah, but birds have wings
that know wind
                    and flight,

They have wings that know
the freedom of wind
                           and flight.

Knowing this,
their wings
              sing.

Their wings know
                       how free
song can be in wind
                           and flight.

The lips of birds
are in their wings, then,

Wings that come alive
in wind
         and flight.

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