“I sit in my tree
I sing like the birds
My beak is my pen
My songs are my poems.”
David Almond book My Name Is Mina
Source: My Name Is Mina
“My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.”
A Birthday http://www.poetry-online.org/rossetti_christina_a_birthday.htm, st. 1 (1861).
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