Bird Themes ... Amelia's Wren Tattoo

The breakfast show on JJJ has lost Elize Strydom as newsreader and Amelia Marshall is the new reader. Thanks to Amelia I have revisited this poem. Little birds should rule the world. I have written a book about it called Mobile Magic.

I was listening to Tom and Alex this morning and the callers couldn't guess that Amelia had a wren tattoo on her wrist inspired by this poem.

“may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young

and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile”

― E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

 

 'THE BREAKFAST SHOW JJJ' NEWS READER MEREDITH GRIFFITHS - ROBBIE BUCK, LINDSAY 'THE DOCTOR' McDOUGALL & MARIEKE HARDY 

BY ANNETTE SCHNEIDER 06/02/09 ACRYLIC/COLLAGE/CANVAS