Kingsbrae 5.1.1
5 June 2017
Yellow Bird
Broken-winged, a bird I found,
panicking upon the ground.
I stooped to lift it from the land:
it nestled in my open hand.
A matchstick splint with cotton tied,
a canary cage to rest inside.
With healing done, an open door:
my yellow bird will fly no more.
I take a pencil, draw a tree,
my bird begins to sing for me.
I erase the cage bars, one by one,
paint a lion’s mane of sun.
Now yellow bird sits in his tree,
and sings all day, to inspire me.
Comment: I split the original post into two segments. The first, 5.1.1 is the poem Yellow Bird and the voice recording. The second, numbered Kingsbrae 4.3 Encaustic, contains the summary of the first evening’s artistic discussion.
rogermoorepoet 
Glad you are blogging about the process. Although we are in charge of our own time it is hard to go on a retreat at home!
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I split Yellow Bird in two and moved the discussion to Encaustic. https://rogermoorepoet.com/2017/06/05/encaustic/
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I am working through these backwards. Art as a healing process is particularly interesting to me. Part of the push to get at-risk children involved in art is that very aspect of putting paint or pencil or words to paper and allowing expression that releases hurts. I loved this!
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Looking back, that’s probably how I got into writing poetry. Yellow Bird functions as an allegory. The reading went very well. Carlos did a great job with the sound. (Thank you, Carlos, te lo agradezco).
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Lovely poem.yeah.arts can be heal all wounds.
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We heard from Anne. We heard from Carlos, Elise and Ruby. What portion of Rogerâs story was told?
Christina Baldwin writes in her book Storycatcher: âStory is the song line of a personâs life. We need to sing it and we need someone to hear the singing.â Seems to me that is happening at Kingsbrae. âStory told, story heard, story written, story read create the web of life in words.â
Cheers,
Victor
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The answer to your question lies in an earlier post, Victor.
https://rogermoorepoet.com/2017/06/01/kingsbrae-1-2/
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