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I’ve been wanting to get into poetry for a while. I would love to combine my illustrations with it or even write a childrens book using rhyme. I’m a little insecure about it. Actually I’m insecure about most of my writing, especially English stuff. The main story I’m working on is Dutch, so I can’t let anyone over here beta read it. But since I love the English language I decided to try writing a poem in it today. It’s actually one of the first ones I did. When @eden-anderson and @the-fledgling-artist started threads about it, it made me feel a little braver to do so myself. I’m curious what you think about it or if you all have any tips!

A little bird sat on a house

That kept him fast afloat

He did not need the water fear

For this house was a boat

 

It carried him for hours on hours

And showed him brand new things

Like ocean birds that flew below

With underwater wings

 

And as he looked across the blue

He heard a creature cry

It jumped out of the water’s bounds

And asked ‘why can’t I fly?’

 

As slow the floating house approached

Bird looked down on the one

Who filled the oceans and the skies

With loud and mournfull song

 

Bird flew upon the giant’s back

And asked ‘why are you sad?

You live in such a wondrous world

It cant be all that bad.’

 

‘I’m jealous’ so the creature told

‘I want to fly like you.

But if I try, take to the sky

I fall back in the blue.’’

 

‘What does it matter? Here or there?’

Bird bravely spoke aloud

‘Maybe seas are just like skies

A wave just like a cloud

 

Fish are like birds in wetter skies

And feathers that you lack

You don’t need when your wings are fins

and have humps on your back.’

 

The creature smiled, while thinking of

what he had not before

‘I do admit that when I swim

I feels as if I soar.’

 

And as they both took wing again

Bird’s friend sang a new tale

‘How good it is to fly below

And be a humpback whale.’

 

Tagging a few poets I know around here: @evelyn @kb-writer @k-a-grey