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Nikita Tshawe Sep 2019
Sons of the soil.
Daughters of the soil.
Wake up and rejoice, for its the day of your heritage.
Celebrate your culture, for it is your privilege.

You are Africa, Africa is you.
A nation so diverse and true.
A real rainbow nation.
Deeply rooted in our tradition.

Nna ke mo Tswana, ebile ke motlotlo ka bo Tswana bame.
Nna ke mo Pedi, ebile ka ikgantsha ka go nna mo Pedi.
Mna ndi ngum Xhosa, ubona nje, ndiyazi dla ngo buXhosa bam.
Mina ngi ngum Zulu qobo, futhi ngiyazi qhenya.

On this day, remember who you are.
On this day, commemorate who you are.
Take pride in your true identity.
Let there be peace and serenity.
In South Africa our land.
Together may we all stand.

Le ga ole moTswana wa Afrika.
Noba ungu m'Xhosa wase Afrika.
Le ha ole mo Sotho wa Afrika Borwa.
Are rataneng. Masi thandaneni.

On this day, speak your mother tounge.
On this day, sing your clan song.
A moTswana eme a kgibe.
UmXhosa maka phakame axhentse.
UmZulu maka sukume agide.
A moPedi a emelle bine.

Sons of the soil.
Daughters of the soil.
Wake up and rejoice, for its the day of your heritage.
Celebrate your culture, for it is your privilege.
Victor Marques Sep 2018
Dedicado a Deus que tanto me deu e tao pouco lhe pedi

Este dom leve de Contigo comunicar,
Meu grito de sempre te amar…
Te encontro no universo, nas estrelas, no mar,
Deus meu barco para navegar.

Deus me confortas com horizontes distantes,
Com o eterno amor por nossos semelhantes,
Te encontro em tudo e acredito no firmamento,
Deus da minha alma e pensamento.

Me deste uma forca que ninguém vai combater,
A minha originalidade de para Ti escrever.
Simples, puro, genuíno e transparente,
Me fizeste assim para todo o sempre.

Dedicado a Deus que tanto me deu,
Pois como bom filho seu,
Tao pouco lhe pedi,
Por Deus e com Deus eu nasci…

Victor Marques
Deus, infinito, amor
Swoo Feb 2020
She has dreams of touching skies wheather its  physical form or in hyper spirits. Takes trips to little Paris and takes pictures on a bridge of locked up secrete. Yet still wants to go to Big Paris and enjoy the high fashion trends of France maybe speak a little bit of french c'est la vie she'd probably say a honey with a lot of sauce I say. - A Pedi Women With  French Taste

Swoo
Victor Marques Nov 2011
Nossa Senhora da Aparecida


Na noite te pedi inspiração,
Divulgar teu nome e devoção.
As correntes do escravo Zacarias,
Velas apagadas Tu acendias.


A corrente to rio era muito forte,
O menino Tu livraste da morte.
Aqui em Castanheiro do Norte,
Te pedimos pão e sorte.


A fé em Deus, ele é amor,
Olhai para as vinhas do Senhor,
Ao Jorge e á D. Anita,
Agradecemos a festa  bonita.

Victor Marques
VS Oct 2015
Pedi à lua e ela respondeu
Descubro
Agora
Em mim mesma
A fonte

Sou filha de Lua Mercurial
E rejo aqui na Terra em nome de Marte
Pelos dois pólos:
-  +

E marte, meu fiel guia, é bom professor
Conserva seu preciosismo
dotado talvez de pragmatismo maior
àvesso às morozidades da água
que agora secam na terra.

Conservo o meu poema
Meu espírito
O construto
O que tu me destes em tua visão

Conservo meu falo,
Pois em mim Marte grita:
À Glória!
Meu estômago borbulha náuseas de vazio
uma agonia que nasce das entranhas
as coisas são cada vez mais estranhas
os sorrisos cada dia mais sombrios

Quero chorar
mas a muito meus olhos estão secos
E meus pulmões pretos
não me permitem respirar

Abafado pelo silêncio que outrora pedi
Sentindo a alma das coisas que repudiei
Dentro do meu próprio abismo gritei
E nem sequer o próprio eco ouvi

Oh, majestoso algoz
nunca imaginei que te desejaria
A esse ponto é certo que me jogaria
de ponta ao declínio atroz

Mutilem meu corpo
nada sentirei
de minha mente já me ausentei
sofro tanto que, por mais nada sofro.
Dayanne Mendes Oct 2012
Eu só queria que o ano acabasse bem.
Ninguém entende o meu ponto de vista, e eu queria mesmo é explodir.
Quem sabe, se eu fosse menos agressiva.
Mais todo mundo me julga, sem saber.
Nem minha mãe me quer, então por que não morrer?
Daqui a pouco começo a me auto-mutilar.
Mas eu não pedi, pra ser a ovelha negra.
Pepper Dove Feb 2020
I can always tell when my life is beginning to fall apart by the mere glimpse of my ******, torn and gnawed to the bone fingertips. A reflection of my internal chaos, now exposed. Revealing my lack of will power to resist the urge when life’s mundane patterns and stress-induced anxiety take over. There’s something to be said when your toenails become longer than your fingernails. I’d say it says that it's time for a manicure of the soul. ****, a pedi wouldn’t hurt either.
A pattern I've noticed when I'm not at my "A-Game" in life. I think I'll use it as a red-flag to pick myself back up again. It's time to nourish my soul.
Despite my spite, I will forgive
You tonight
I won't wear my pain like armor
Cuz it won't help me fight

Forget wrong or right
Instead let's talk class
But this is no time for laughs
this is u bein left in the past
---------

Your not worth all the pain
Your not worth all the tears
It's funny how heartbroken I
Was throughout the years

Comparing u with my peers
That in my head never could
Measure up the way u would, cuz
On a pedi stool u stood

And I always helped put
You there, blind from seeing
That you were an empty vessel far
from special but looks are deceiving

Intriguing, til it was demeaning  
Feeling not good enough
So all I keep thinking of was ways
To make you think that I was

When you couldn't.cuz I wouldn't
So how could u ever
the reason love hurts is cuz it makes
u forget nothings forever

Like it's emotionally clever
And controls u with levers
Til the day you pay as u endeavor
Your once whole  heart severed

Feeling withdrawn from pleasure
From the love that was lost
Til your consumed by bitter sweet memories that wither and rot

the "I love yous"are now I love u nots
As your Stomachs in knots
The same way it was the day u met same feeling, but twisted plot

How sick is that? leaves u distraught
Petulant and angry
Hiding in my apartment crying
Ashamed I don't react manly

Cuz I'm weak and now im sadly
Feeling lonely from solitude
Trying hard to keep the little dignity
I have left by not callin you

And Begging you to come Back
Or asking how can I make u stay
Ill do anything and everything
I need u here, now,..... today

But it just ....pushes her away
And makes me look so pathetic
Leaving me a bill to pay back the
Self respect I'm now indebted

But that was past tense when I let it
Overwhelm me, not seeing
That she was very distant from the
all mighty superior being

I kept seeing u as but being
Alone forced to go on your own
Makes u realize how to be a guy
That can now be properly shown

How neglected he was when prone
To catering to someone he thought
Was deserving but after serving her
With Respect,that I never got

I Felt so meaningless but stopped
Seeing myself as undeserving
Deprived of the love i needed most
from myself to help the hurting

Cu losing the one I've been serving
constantly giving love away
Not realizing a true lover would give
Something back to trade

Instead of rewarding me like dogs so I got laid as a treat from my master
I felt like pavlovs dog,a lucky ******* Looking back it was such a disaster

So if I was a good boy I'd get an
Ear scratch, or a bone to hunt
I guess to be honest the equivalent more suited would be a leg to ****

Cuz she made me Forrest Gump
In love with a jenny
Too stupid to be offended by the many times she left for any

Man who treated her the opposite
Of the way that I did
Like she wanted to be put Down
Instead of wearin crowns cuz she is

Royalty to me But in time long after she left me for dead
My brain was confused, knowin the aim was happiness but Instead

She's gone so more self aware and  Self repair to bring myself where
I was needed, and now I feel cheated By my own neglect,impaired

So I forgive u cause if incase u care
You'd know that when u left
I didn't see it but I really needed u
Gone to see it was so incorrect

living to please who I respect
And not respecting myself
No wonder I felt beneath her and
Couldn't face the fear I felt

Cuz she left, leaving me blessed so
Yes if u see this u are forgiven
Thank you for constantly teaching
Me the hard lesson I was given

Bringin confidence I had prisoned
And all the sight I lacked from vision
To see how bad I need to be the first
one I love if I ever expect to be given

Another's love which is hidden
In self love that helps reflect
Once nurtured causing it to bounce off What comes off the opposite ***

So after this you'll finally be left
In my past as I have to move on
But I'll never forget all you left for me
as the lesson I keep to stay strong

And as a reminder, that the keeper
Of love is the loves designer
&should; be possessed to address the next love I get if I can find her

And when I do I'll think of you
and Know you gave me the best
Present by not being present cuz subtracting ur presence as u left

Is the reason I am blessed
And I read the email u swiftly
Sent a few days ago to hit me
By saying how much u miss me

And It was sweet but I simply
Can't be weak and entertain
The company of what had come to be the suffering but comforting pain

Cause I see you like I see the casino
Dat left me broke by takin my money
So The teacher of hard lessons Now takes on the form of how ****** ugly

The lesson can be if it's not learned
that's why knowledge is earned
So in my past with tears shed over u
Is where u will now return

Like my memories are her urn
That keeps her bottled to turn
Over in your grave for making me a
Slave to abuse but the burns

Sat bluntly"don't be a dummy
Or she will hurt u again"
Cu if I play with fire like my desire
From the attraction acquired then

I'll never allow it to retire unlike the
love I had and It was strongly felt
But I'll resist u¬ kiss u or Ill miss
u but if I fall again I cant be helped

With my issues needing tissues after I get My hopes up for nothing
So this is goodbye,cuz I must deny
the high I get when just one thing

Leads to another2leave me smothered, high by your scent
But I cant help remember how lonely I was, when u left, I jus say and wept

So it's time to accept the debt
We will now pay in our own way
By seeing what u had&did;;'t want but u want now... as it walks away

After forgiving all the bad moods
The abuse and all the cheating
And I'm not sure what my future path
Has but I know my past is keeping

You and I wish u well keep dreaming
And never ever go believing
U can be loved and not love or ull be in anothers past as he's leaving

You behind like I did in time,thanks for the lesson ....now here's mine
Open eyes, don't help love come out
It needs to be felt, til then ur blind

By a love ull never find
if u keep taking but never give
Cuz true love is like a 69 it can find
A way to receive as it gives
Mahdiya Patel Jul 2015
Sometimes poverty unites not nations
but merely two people//
Intoxicants when overused break families as waves break on the shore//
Their drug now becomes their love//
And you are equivalent to nothing in their perceived reality//
It either makes the users surrounding guests mature profound strong souls
As strong as the Pedi army stood against the British and Boer to protect their land//
Or it causes them to transfer to their own twisted but illusionistic universe where all they see is darkness and despondency//

And then one day//
The money begins to run out
and so do the people//
But rarely, oh so rarely some humans make the decision to stay and continue the journey//
Where the road may potentially split into two//
recovery or relapse//

Sometimes poverty unites not nations
but merely two people//

The money has begun to exhale into the earths atmosphere
just as a stoner exhales his poisonous vapour into our airspace//
Some stay behind to help the corrupt mortal//

No money equals no substances//
No ******* or cat or cannabis or crack or codeine//
No drugs//

Then//

Two beings begin to ignite each other's fires
they learn the things they didn't know for the what felt like a million and seventy years//
They begin to discover how the one mispronounces words
and how certain songs cause ones soul to sway as the bass drops
or how ones hair whirls as the wind rushes through it
or how he can see the depths of the her soul through the eyes
and when she stares at the moon
her beauty is illuminated by the magical glow//

And then one day//
The money starts returning//
Creepily and discretely
the evil money
the tragedious money//
Like an evil monster emerging from hell
Where its dark and *****//

The money blows out the fire they have ignited
and slowly lures the user back//
The bond is now broken//

Sometimes poverty unites not nations
but merely two people//
* my proudest piece
Withoutwords Nov 2015
She that casts no shadow brings not darkness to the room,
She is but a ray of light to banish out the gloom,
I have beheld such an angel with her long and lustrous hair
But it was not her beauty that drew me close to her.

It was the music in her laugh the sparkle in her eyes,
The honesty of her face and her long and lustful sighs
And in those fleeting moments when my eyes rested on her face
I knew for sure that I must make my home her resting place.

I must have her for my own, must keep her from the rest
For surly a precious creature would, my competitors, impress
I would have her as a trophy to show to all the world
And they would live in envy of the magic in my girl

So I sort out her farther and I offered a fine sum
He said he'd play me for her and soon the girl was won
I set her on a pedi stool and and admired my lovely thing
Then I shut her in a pretty place and went to get a ring

A ring as loverly as her laugh with a stone just like her eyes
Only the best for the angle that I'd taken for my prize
With my darling beside me, the finest women in the land
I threw the finest party and took her delicate hand

But I found my self disappointed for no envy did I see
All that looked upon me seemed to greave and pity me
Suddenly I noticed how dark it seemed to grow
For despite the many candles the room simply would not glow.

I turned to look beside me to my lovely shining wife
And to my greatest horror I saw not the merest fleck of life
Her skin was finest silk and eyes were precious stones
But beneath the fine fasarde there was no heart nor flesh nor bones

Then It came upon me, an idea so terribly stark
In all my efforts to win her I forgot to win her heart
And as I left her lonesome and draped her with fine things
I snuffed out her brightness and I clipped off her angel wings

I took a darling angel and I kept her in the dark,
I kept her for a selfish goal and I let her fall apart
I sort only want I wanted and never what she'd need
And so I lost my angle as a result of my own greed.
Evelin G hoffman Aug 2017
No entiendo mis deseos de tenerte
No entiendo mis ansias de poseerte
Son tan fuertes que abrumen mi mente
mi cuerpo arde por ti constantemente.

El tiempo se me hace una eternidad
Cuando mis ojos te dejan de mirar
Siento una loca y extraña ansiedad
Que me domina y no te dejo de pensar.

Siento extrañarte sin tener necesidad
Quiero acariciarte sin ninguna maldad
Pero comerte a besos en la intimidad
Hacerte solo mia, en la luz y oscuridad

Quiero respirar el aire que viene de ti
Oler tu pelo, tu cara, y volver a sentir
Que eres todo lo que un día pedi' Extasiarme en tu cuerpo, repetir y repetir.
  
Evegaby
8-21-17
Rafael Barcellos Jun 2018
Encurtei o monólogo
Nascia no horizonte, não tão longe
Um novo psicólogo.

Um ano e meio de auto sabotagem
Repetia e repetia: vai melhorar
Mas só piorava, parecia tudo bobagem
E eu seguia a me enganar,
Achava que tinha que, logo, me formar.

Aquilo foi, cada vez mais, pesando
E eu, no fundo, sabia que tava me enganando
Até pra sair da cama, me esforçando
E quase em depressão, entrando.

Num choro de desespero busquei auxílio espiritual
Pedi pros preto, pelo amor de Deus, um sinal
E ele veio. Veio muito claro. Explícito. Gutural.
Enxerguei a possibilidade de cumprir minha missão, afinal.

Fiz minha escolha e decidi mudar
O campus do vale abandonar
No tempo, voltar
Até o vestibular prestar
Pra poder me encontrar
E a psicologia estudar.

Com muita fé em mim e na minha capacidade
Estudei muito. Tive vontade.
Fiz o que pude num tempo que eu não tinha. Tive que ser crente.
Era mãe doente, trabalho de 8h, namorado e cursinho. Podia ficar doente.
Mas o sucesso é meu destino. Já tava escrito.
Meu nome no listão parecia em negrito.

O alívio se fez. Grande sinal.
Me senti mais perto de cumprir minha missão, afinal.
E agora sigo. Ávido pela descoberta
Desse novo mundo. Estou alerta.

Nascia no horizonte, não tão longe
Um novo psicólogo.
Mariana Seabra Mar 2022
Ó vida!

Que de ti se apagou a luz

Da escrita criativa.



Não foi de ti, vida,

Foi de mim.



Foi de mim que se extinguiu!

E a mim que ela levou,

                Depois que me partiu…

Como se me levasse a vida!

Toda!

            a que existia.



E como é criativa,

A musa que me inspira à escrita!

Foi de mim;

Levou-me a vida;

                              Mas conseguiu deixar-me viva.



“Tem tanto de triste

Como de cruel:

Ser peso morto que respira.”



Escrevi isso em algum papel…

Que logo depois perdi,

Ou se molhou,

Ou o esqueci,

Em algum lugar

Ao qual não pretendo voltar.



Mais tarde, estava de frente com o Mar

Quando dei por mim a chorar…



Em algum momento pensei:

“Talvez a dor da sua partida

Seja outra faísca perdida no ar

À qual me vou agarrar,

E sentir entre os dedos

Antes de a transformar  

Em algo mais.”



O “algo mais” que me referia,

Creio que seja esta desordenada poesia.



É o sangue quente, frio, vermelho, azul, é rio, és fogo,

Sou maresia, és eu, sou tu, somos nós, é o mundo,

É a fantasia, é a verdade disfarçada de ironia,

É dor, é amor, é tudo o que caiba num poema,

É tudo o que faça encher; se possível, transbordar!



Foram tantos!  

Os que me imploraram para os escrever.

Era eu que ia buscar a inspiração;

Ou era ela que me vinha socorrer?!



No frenesim da escrita maldita

Ficou outra questão por responder.



A caneta tornou-se um órgão essencial

Que não pedi para transplantarem cá dentro;

Sentia a sua forte presença nos momentos de maior alento;

Era a ponte que eu percorria, entre o sentir e o saber;

Assisti enquanto se estendia; dobrava! mas nunca partia;

Até encontrar na página branca uma saída

Para poder florescer; e florescia!

Nascia uma folha que era tecida; com uma teia tão fina que ninguém via;

Só brilhava quando a luz lhe batia; resplandecia!

Quando existia uma ligação direta entre mim e a magia;

De estar na beira do precipício entre a morte e a armadilha;

A que escolhem chamar de vida.



Ah! Musa criativa…

A única que me inspira à escrita!

Sei que um dia te irei reler,

Mas só quando estiver pronta para te entender.



Prometo que vou fazer por o merecer!



Talvez quando esta agonia paradoxal

De ser

Tão humana e sentimental

De ter

De amar à distância  

Uma humana tão excecional

Fizer sentido;  

                        Ou então desaparecer!



Foi um “adeus” que nem te cheguei a dizer…



Nem vou tentar romancear

Toda a angústia que vivi; contida

Numa simples despedida.  



Foi como se dissesse adeus à vida!



Pois nem toda a tinta

Alguma vez já vertida

Serviu para camuflar o *****

Que saiu da minha espinha

Quando a adaga me acertou.



Até hoje, nem eu sei como me atingiu!

Se fui eu que não a vi,

Ou se fui eu quem a espetou?!



Mas era *****, muito *****,

Tudo o que de mim sangrou;

Quando descobri,

Num mero dia, num inferno acaso,

Que no final das contas

A única que eu tanto amava

Se tinha entregue a um alguém tão raso.



Tapei os olhos com terra suja!...

Tal como decidiu fazer a minha musa.



“O pior cego é o que não quer ver!”

Prefere fechar os olhos porque abri-los é sofrer!



Induzi-me à cegueira;

Amnésia propositada;

Alma bem trancada;

Tudo para a tentar esquecer.



Tudo para lhe pagar na mesma moeda!



Então, claramente, o desfecho da narrativa só poderia ser:

De olhos bem fechados se deu a queda…



Foi assim que aprendi:

A vingança tal como o ódio,

É veneno para quem a traz!



Parei…

Dei um, dois, três, quatro, cinco mil passos atrás.

Relaxei…

Segui em frente.

                                         Lá ia eu  

                                                        com a corrente…



Inspirei amor e paz.



E foi assim que os abri,

Com uma chapada de água fria.



Não posso dizer que não a mereci.



Foi à chuva, nua, de frente com a verdade pura e crua,  

que descobri do que era capaz; e quando soltei ar de novo,  

expeli branco, afastou-se um corvo, brilhou o sol com a lua atrás, e:



Ahhhhh! Lá estava ela, exatamente ali!



Onde sempre tinha estado.

No lugar que lhe era reservado,

Onde estava eu também.



Olhamo-nos;

Com um olhar triste; influenciado

Por restos de terra suja

Que ainda não se tinham descolado.



                                                             Quase não aguentei;

                               Contrariei

                              A vontade de fugir;

                                                               ­                                                                 ­      
                                                                ­      E sorri-lhe…



Já fui um ser não tão humano,

Que até para amar estava cansado!

Preso por correntes de ilusões;

Ego;

Egoísmo;

E muito mais do que considero errado.



Como tudo na História

Isso pertence apenas ao passado.



Ah! Musa criativa…

A única que me inspira à escrita!

Ela, melhor que ninguém, o deveria saber;

Que me tornei um ninguém melhor,

Só por a conhecer.



Fiquei mais ardida

Que a Roma Antiga!

Quando aquela louca,

Tal musa criativa,

Me pegou na mão

E fez-me a vida colorida.



(Despertou-me fogo no coração!)



Alastrem-se cores de cinza!

Espalhem-se! Que os vamos fazer ver:

Mesmos os templos em ruína

São possíveis de reerguer.
Muiruri gathairu Mar 2023
Lazima uchoose, dooh ama doze
Lazima uchoose, respect alarm ama uisnooze
Lazima uchoose, ujitume ama ulose
Lazima uchoose, ujibuild au *****

Izi ndo vitu hamtaki kuambiwa, izi ndo the truth
Mnataka niseme life ni smooth but Leo siwasooth
Sherehe Sheria ndio inamaliza mayouth
Ukilewa vuguru, Hadi hunaga matooth


Daily unadial pedi ukidai Mali
Jipende buda na for sure utafika mbali
Imagine ukiwa diani ukiorder wali
Si lazima buy iyo jumu expe ati ju ni Kali

Picha ya Kenyatta Kwa walanje ndo unafaa kusaka
Jipe goals Ka Sancho, salah au saka
Mulla mob, nine lives Ka paka
Usijitreat Ka trash we si takataka

But anyway maisha ni yako
Chaguo ni lako
Ntaachia apo ju naskia mtu Kwa mlango
Am sure ni peng Fulani utoka pango
Bryant Aug 2018
Laces Out Bryant J Frye
From nightingale's first call
Through the dawning of the lark
Moist and sodden I did trote

Pedi dermal waterlog
Blanched trenches; faults in thier valleys  
Repeating pressure; suffering throughout

Time ever lasting
Constant eternal pace
Synchronizing my gate
Harrowing consternation
Sloppy soppy convaince
No feet would they gaurd today

Quests of mercantil success
Here for taking
Nobel endeavors
Seeking a favor of fortune

Tyche's blessed stare
Focused photon gleam
Sparkling serendipitous sneakers
Dispatched by Victory's wings

Heel clutching
Metatarsal majestic myopathy
Divinely contrived champion
Satin slipers sublime
Monster Truck Men
Mani-Pedi women
Filling
Lazy ignorant child's head with lies
While the adolescents
Continue
Killing

Narcissistic Beauty Queen
Defines 'The man of her dreams'
Proudly touts the lesson learned
Without understanding
What it means

Proud Moronic Patriots
Claim their land
Is no longer your home too
The great divide
Has been devised
Pressure you to follow suit

Somewhere
A cracked screen prompts to be fixed
Another clown unplugs from the matrix
Until the Television set
Recycles history
At the Apex
We can't have you running around with the truth

God Knows no boundaries
When toying with his fools
Keeps prosperous wealth
In front of the hungry
Now you've become
A useful tool
Travis Green Apr 2021
Girl, I want you to have the best things in life
Said I don’t want you to struggle forever
I want things to get better for us
Even if I must pull a 12-hour shift
For you to pay your finances
Even if the mortgage is due
You can trust that I will come through

I see your getup needs a level up
Baby, let me take you out shopping
Cop anything that you want
I just want you to be happy
Go and get your hair did
Go and get you a mani and a pedi

Do you need your car detailed?
Do you need your rims clean?
Do you need your bushes trimmed?
Do you need your grass mowed?
Do you need your house pressure washed?
Do you need me to go out and buy groceries?
Say do you need me to cook for you?
Do you want me to massage you?
Do you want me to do laundry?
Baby, I’ll do anything for you
‘Cause I love you, and I wanna see you smile
Ryan O'Leary Apr 2020
We've got a one legged
crow frequenting our
garden, must have got
caught in a trap, cut it
right off at the left knee.

Can't be sure whether
pedi-dexterity exists in
Genus Corvus or not,
but he definitely finds it
difficult when taking off.

That double kick to get
wings above ground is
a must for flight, I also
noticed landing issues, a
need to swoop, then turn.

Stumpy has a quandary
in parliaments of crows
especially under the bird
feed baskets where survival
of the fittest is in evidence.

But needs must, so Stumpy
has figured out a solution.
By leaving the rookery a
few minutes before the rest,
he arrives with early birds.

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