As a Bird

Oh, to be
as carefree
as a bird:
to hop,
to fly and soar,
and sing with a melodic trill;
a morning bird
sharing the word
upon a windowsill,
in a bush or on a branch of a tree,
just being carefree,
being me.

Kim M. Russell, 27^th July 2026

This Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub we are quadrilling without a care in the world with Sanaa.

Yes, we are writing tiny little nuggets of a poem that is an invention of dVerse’s own design: exactly 44 words, including one word that we provide – and that word is ‘care’.

Sanaa points us to words that contain our prompt word, such as careful, careless, caring, careworn, caretaker, caregiver, carefulness, carelessness etc. as well as sharing examples of poems by W.H. Davies and James Grengs.