Scaped
loss
art & creativity
free verse
melancholic
Once, I knew a fine song, - It is true, believe me - It was all of birds, And I held them in a basket; When I opened the wicket, Heavens! They all flew away. I cried, 'Come back, little thoughts!' But they only laughed. They flew on Until they were as sand Thrown between me and the sky.
Scaped - meaning Summary
Thoughts as Escaped Birds
The speaker recalls once possessing a perfect song, pictured as birds kept in a basket. When the cage is opened the birds fly away and cannot be retrieved despite the speaker's plea. The lost song becomes a distant, scattering image—"as sand thrown between me and the sky"—conveying the suddenness and irretrievability of inspiration and the pain of creative loss or fleeting thoughts slipping beyond reach.
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