Here’s a deep question for you on this Monday morning:
Why does the caged bird sing?
I’ll send my copy of Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth to my favorite answer.
Here’s a deep question for you on this Monday morning:
Why does the caged bird sing?
I’ll send my copy of Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth to my favorite answer.
November 24, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Parce ce qu’il ne sait pas qu’il est seul … S’il le savait, il ne chanterai plus.
Because he don’t know he’s alone. If he does, he’ll never sing.
November 24, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Maya Angelou knows why
November 24, 2009 at 6:05 pm
It sings because it is happy, safe and secure. It’s fed and taken care of.
November 24, 2009 at 6:40 pm
he sings, because his soul is not caged and never can be.
November 25, 2009 at 5:36 am
Hey Mark,
I like what you said that about sums it up!
Kenneth R. Livingston
November 24, 2009 at 6:46 pm
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The free bird leaps
on the back of the win
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and is tune is heard
on the distant hillfor the caged bird
sings of freedom
The free bird thinks of another breeze
an the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
But tho the bird is caged his soul and heart is sill free.
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November 24, 2009 at 7:52 pm
because she knows she is never truly caged.. even though she may be in a physical cage, she is never truly caged unless she chooses to be in her mind and in her heart.
haha, or she’s asking to be let out.
November 25, 2009 at 5:35 am
Hey Davey,
I would have to say that it’s for the same reason we do. Think of being at home for months never leaving the security and safety of your property. You see all the same people all of the time. I speak from myself, I know exactly why the caged bird sings.
When you finally do go out in to the world (you could be in the tiniest hamlet on earth), and you see someone who doesn’t know you, you end up sharing with them because you think that they just might be your one real connection to the world. You’re in it but you don’t see any of it till someone says hello or how was your day. Then the words just come out, in that time of complete seclusion from everything that is immediately unfamiliar everything that you thought everything that you felt everything you experienced happened and there is a world out there much bigger than you are that in reality has no clue what has happened like I mean NO ONE in the known world knows anything about you or what you have done or learned. You’ve been in a strictly and intimately familiar environment where no one has gone in or out.
If you’ve ever had a time when you’ve known of worldly things and the worldly people have known of you. Then it’s gone because for some reason it’s lost its interest then you go out and you’re not interested in the world at all but what you really want to know is, “What has been going on out there?”, if you talk with someone you might find out.
Kenneth R. Livingston
P.S. I’m not talking about being in jail, it’s been something by choice. I just don’t have to leave the estate I have everything there I need and don’t ever have to go out into the world if I don’t make the choice to.
November 25, 2009 at 3:21 pm
It knows there’s true beauty, freedom,and life beyond the limitations of the “cage.” The “cage” does not limit its imagination, but its ability.
November 25, 2009 at 9:50 pm
The soul isn’t physically defined, it comes from somewhere deeper than that. It isn’t trapped by physical restrictions. When everything else is trapped, the soul is probably the one thing that isn’t.
Remember birds sing to connect to one another. So do we. Even when you don’t know someone, you can still have common ground. Birds twitter back and forth, by doing so they connect. We connect because we all have a soul, and nothing can take that way. I suppose a bird singing reminds us of that freedom and that connection. No matter what happens or what we are faced with, we all connect, we can all reach out to one another in our own way. No matter how restricted that bird is, it can sing. It can connect to those around them. It still has something to offer to others and to itself. When our abilities our restricted, we use the power we have left, however limited. If not for the benefit of others, we do it for ourselves. The bird might not be singing for other birds, for other people, or for your pleasure. Whatever reason the bird chooses to sing, it’s still for itself. It has that choice and remaining freedom, so it utilises that.
I also believe that using our power in this way is therapeutic. It lets people know; “I haven’t given up, there’s still hope, and I’m clinging onto that hope with every bloody ounce of energy I have left.”
November 26, 2009 at 1:46 am
the real question is why wouldn’t it? to think that a bird wouldnt sing is to think that a dog wouldnt bark. its just how it is. im sure the bird must realize that it is caged but what can it do but to sit there and sing? perhaps of a better reality than the one it is given. you see just like us it too has physical boundries but it does not let that stop it from being happy as should you
November 26, 2009 at 4:36 am
The caged bird sings because it knows no other path than to be content in even the miserable moments of life–because even though it’s caged it’s never lost its ability to fly.
November 26, 2009 at 12:52 pm
If she does not sing, she will go insane from all the pain that life has thrust upon her. She sings to rise above the pain and prove she is stronger than her abusers.
November 26, 2009 at 12:58 pm
If she does not sing, she will go insane from all the pain that life has thrust upon her. She sings to prove that she is stronger than her abusers and they have not broken her. Her wings are broken, but her spirit soars high.
November 26, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Our higher power speaks to us in mysterious ways, and little or big birds singing,even when caged, is an example to us humans to temper our anger, and accept whatever comes our way with an accepting peaceful heart.
November 28, 2009 at 6:47 pm
OR because it can’t play an instrument!
November 29, 2009 at 2:53 pm
lol, thats why I sing
November 26, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Um hello, nothing I said was meant 2 be taken literally. Just as Maya Angelou’s ‘Why The Caged Bird Sings’ is NOT about birds or singing.
November 26, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Nothing I said was meant 2 be taken literally. Just as ‘Why The Caged Bird Sings’ is neither about singing nor is it about birds. That was my interution of the sentance. Sorry 4 my lack of clarity.
November 29, 2009 at 3:26 am
Two things to put together:
1. A bird does not know it is in a cage.
2. A bird sings no matter what.
If speaking through natural selection, birds would adapt a lot faster to the new environment and would keep doing its thing. This is contrary to people – who may take an entire lifetime to adapt. We are the only species that reason…
November 29, 2009 at 1:44 pm
It sings for the same reason I would sing, I won’t tell you Why I’d sing but I will tell you what I would sing, “My favourite things” why?? cause then I won’t feeeeeel sooooooo badddddddddddd
November 29, 2009 at 2:46 pm
why the hell should it not?
November 29, 2009 at 2:52 pm
it thinks: “you know, maybe I am free in a very small world and you are caged in a very big cage”
November 29, 2009 at 2:55 pm
(stolen from this great german comic: http://oliver.kler-online.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/nichtlustig_loewe_kaefig_waerter.jpg)
November 29, 2009 at 6:59 pm
And the winner is…..
December 1, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Caged birds singing are free.
December 2, 2009 at 12:09 am
The caged birds sings because even in the darkest times there is still hope left.
December 2, 2009 at 9:44 pm
*bird
December 2, 2009 at 12:28 am
The caged bird sings because without music the world would Bb.(Bb = be flat in music terms)
December 2, 2009 at 12:32 am
Maya Angelou knows why the caged bird sings.
December 5, 2009 at 11:04 am
The bird sings because it is it’s nature to sing. The bird doesn’t see the bars; it sees the sunrise and greets it the only way it knows how. In the case of the nightingale; it glimpses the dusk and lulls the world to sleep with a song of appreciation for having experienced the day just past.
December 5, 2009 at 1:22 pm
The caged bird sings not because it dreams of being free to fly around. It’s song is one of happiness, because life is great for the bird. Here in it’s little cage, it is protected from all bad things, but it can still see the world from between the bars. It appreciates the beauty that surrounds it, and cherishes the place it has in that world. If I were the birdie, which sometimes I feel like I am. I would sing too.
December 6, 2009 at 2:20 pm
It sings, because with its voice, it defeats its captors. Its physical entrapment is overcome by a free spirit.
December 12, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Why does man confined to ‘earth and the moon’ (I think that’s the only places man has actually ‘been to’ that we know of….) find joy?
January 3, 2010 at 1:02 pm
The bird sings to spread its message because although the cage may stop it from physical freedom but in spreading its word the bird has achieved freedom as the song will continue to spread, forever.