Nothing Special

Are we Blackbirds

or are we trees?

or are we blackbirds among

the trees?

All Trees and

Blackbirds

 are common you say,

so many and all look the same

look closer

anything living or alive

is unique

like snowflakes.

Not even identical twins

are truly identical,

a mother can tell the 

subtle

differences.

cookies cutters

can make identical things

but God only makes

unique 

creatures

and specializes in

variety of 

the

 One. 

Reviews

[Tara]

You wrote about my beloved blackbirds! They have stopped screaming at me! I guess I finally got the message .Anyhoo. I love this write and you my dear are definitely beautifully unique!

[Corset]

Thanks! you!

[barleygirl]

I love how your poem has an unmistakable purpose -- to define uniqueness -- and you use interesting analogies to express this in an adamant way. The "blackbirds" opening is most effective since we almost never think of a bunch of blackbirds & think of any one as being distinct or notable. The thing that bugs me the most about our current political discourse is how often people group people together, as if all republicans think this & all democrats think that & all teachers expect this & all industries do that. It's a ridiculous herd mentality that keeps us from making progress (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Corset]

I loved your comments Barley Girl , thank you for making them :D

[h d e rushin]

I've thought long and hard about this infallible sky God that an entire book was dedicated to his/her works and wonders and how insanely human he seems. Like looking at the old movies of spaceships and Martians and how, even today, their ships are drawn like circular spheres and the men are always short with large heads. How else then to make the believable, believable than to make his likeness humanly suitable; apparitional and erect. I've also heard that this great being is respective of no one person. But my grandma had a picture of him over her leg pumped sewing machine in a house with no bathroom, heated with firewood, dirt poor and illiterate . (I'm a revolutionary if you've forgotten lol)

But what is so very beautiful about your perspective in this poem is that you too believe that everything not mashed together or malleable deserves not even the slightest hint of skepticism. That whether created or constructed, perfection only happens once and one time only amazing.. Your biggest fan.....dana

[Corset]

If I was to write a book about anything there would be a lot of me in it, men wrote the book, men wrote from their own perspectives, could be why it has such a human flair to it, books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the Torah etc.. who wrote them?
was it Moses? There seems to be much skepticism,
it was a revelation to whom? How much of it was fact and how much fiction? Who writes our histories? we are all authors here, we all write as if we are the authority on what ever we write about, because of our beliefs and our convictions and because of what our mothers and fathers have told us to be the gospel truth. Man, infallible man , i'm sure if women were allowed to write back then we would have not embellished quite so much ya think? Hmmm, if you had a bic lighter back then you'd be a god too. But there are truths in it, historical truths take David and Goliath for example, there were giants then we have the bones haven't we? But if you take the man out of it and focus on the message basically it tells us the main will of this "God" is to love each other to find the "god" spark made in his image is to find the love within, our capacity, a dogs capacity to love, animals that mate for a life time, seals that return to the same place and such, the miracle that we dangle weightless and weigh tons upon tons, the magnitude of billions of people and animals and plants and flowers and not two truly identical is mind blowing to me, even a ant will have a hair here or there that isn't the same as the one behind it is mind boggling, and yet we are so used to it that we don't see it anymore and think how the f-k is that possible???