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March 6, 2006

The red cockatoo ..

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Nothing to do with mobile ...
I have long supported individuality and freedom - and this poem is so touching.

I saw this wonderful poem on the London underground yesterday
The significance is - its written more than 1300 years ago! Some things don't change sadly

The Red Cockatoo

Sent as a present from Annam
A red cockatoo.
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
And they did to it what is always done
To the learned and eloquent.
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside

Po Chu : AD 772 - AD 840 Translated by Arthur Waley
Image source:
http://www.treknature.com/gallery/North_America/United_States/photo28372.htm

Posted by ajit at March 6, 2006 3:16 PM



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