Today's prompt NaPoWriMo was a bit of a challenge -- to find a poem you are not familiar with, cover it with a sheet of paper, and uncover it line by line, starting with the last line and working back to the first, while writing a response to each line to create the seeds of a finished poem. I did that, but I also edited it a lot so that I had a finished poem.
The Wise Fool
The bird is a wise fool.
His song reverberates
happily in a world of woe,
free upon the wind,
free for the listening,
free as the air itself.
So giddy is he
that, unable to define his song,
he becomes one with it.
He sings the truth
of all he knows
and all he is. - Jeff Barnes
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