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Jeweled feathers gleam
Brilliant, vivid hues
Nature's rainbow-winged creature
Meant to streak the skies in freedom
Instead confined
To a gilded prison
Bound and shackled
From ascending cloud-kissed heights
Songbird trilling melodies
In the dawn's chorus
Wings yearning to take flight
On whims of the wind
Now muted in captivity
Talons wrapped 'round perch
Rattling the bars that cage
A vibrant spirit dimmed
Oh to be uncaged
To swoop and soar once more
No ownership or walls
Just liberating skies ahead
No limits but the horizon
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The poem uses imagery and metaphor to depict a vivid bird stuck in a cage, contrasting its confinement with its natural inclination and desire for freedom and flight. I tried to capture the tragic juxtaposition of a wild bird bred for the skies now imprisoned and grounded against its true nature.
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