Winging It

Quote from a birthday card:" May the bluebird of happiness crap all over your birthday cake" And I started to laugh and couldn't stop.

a bluebird of plastic

happiness swings on its perch

suspended from a wooden

beam on our garden deck

not a note comes out

of its tiny throat

though i am full of song

not a sign that this fragile

avian toy is full of the joys

of spring, though i'm 

winging it

and certainly its faded

paint plumage doesn't bode

well for future prosperity

though i consider myself

wealthy

as for good luck, you can 

chuck that out of a window

none of us can croak about

that these days

instead we have to make the 

most of what we've got

and drop the negatives

happiness comes in small

parcels, learn to grow 

your own

Reviews

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ha a nice tongue in cheek little advice poem. I have to say having had to go scrub my path a few hours ago to remove pigeon poo I am avian a bad day lol! My fault because I have many bird feeders and keep them topped up. Nice little spontaneous number. We also have a metal bird in a cage swinging in the breeze.

[Chris Shaw]

Thanks John, they look pretty don't they? Unfortunately the expression on the face of my bluebird of happiness, was far from appy :)) Poor little thing looked as though it was about to drop dead off its perch :)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Chris......it is dead!

[Chris Shaw]

I know. I should go and give it the kiss of life :))

[Cyprian Van Dyke]

Interesting write, especially the ending. It has a good moral. The poem was also well penned. Tyfs

[Chris Shaw]

Thank you Cyprian. I appreciate your visit and thoughts.

Chris

[Karoline Lesande]

First I read about the birthday card and almost choked on my tea, hilarious! But the message in this poem is current and so important; happiness is something you create and not something you have. And in these trying times it's true that "we have to make the most of what we've got and drop the negatives". Lovely writing!

[Chris Shaw]

Thank you little Hermaid. Pleased you laughed. Thanks fir checking this one out.

Chris

[barleygirl]

This poem feels like two opposing forces . . . the narrator, a sarcastic & negative old cuss, professes that we needn't succumb to acting like sarcastic & negative old cusses. Nicely presented juxtaposition! Amazingly you've captured the precise bittersweet attitude I've adopted to survive & keep my good humor intact: I'm so jaded as to the outcome of this stretch of history, but the whole mashup feels funny in its exaggerated absurdity. I'm more curious to see what other unprecedented shoe could possibly drop next, more than being concerned about the clustered conundrum the world is currently in! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

"unprecedented" became a meaningless overused word about 3 months into Trump's presidency, by the way . . . now we're almost 4 years in & the whole absurdity isn't worth reacting to anymore!

[Chris Shaw]

Thanks Margie. Your response made me smile. There was indeed a conversation going on but the narrstor being a old cuss made me laugh out loud. Times aren:t easy a d who knows what:s going to happen in your elections.
Take care.

Chris

[Fairy Khan]

Yes, indeed. All of us need to learn to grow our own happiness. Your thoughts are always food for the soul.

[Chris Shaw]

Hello Fairy. Thank you for checking in. Haven't seen you for a while. Hope all is ok. Best wishes.read moreHello Fairy. Thank you for checking in. Haven't seen you for a while. Hope all is ok. Best wishes.

Chris

[Fairy Khan]

Yes. Thanks a lot for asking. Have been busy with college. Online education isn't as simple as it sounds. I hope you are good, too.

[Chris Shaw]

All good here. Yes I can imagine online learning as being problematic. Take good care of you.

[Fairy Khan]

Take care.