A Bird Can Be

A poet

A singer

Joy incarnate

Symbol of hope

Little stranger

Beauty of nature

Symbol of freedom

Harbinger of peace

The eye of heaven

Inspirer to fly high

The greatest musician

Highlighter of freedom

Ecological litmus paper

One perfect teaspoon of creation

Symbol and suggestion to the poet

The first and the greatest performer

Suggester of poetry in their flight and song

Realiser of human aspirations, in its free, holiday-life

A reminder what a blessing and privilege it is just to be alive

Beautiful vagabond, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds

A miracle because it proves to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain

Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, and a beak and (typically) by being able to fly

The most accomplished aeronaut the world has ever seen - it flies high and low, at great speed, and very slowly, and always with extraordinary precision and control

A saint, who flies to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who is so removed from the world that it has no business on earth - it does not labour, but by contemplation alone already lives in heaven