Imperfect Heart

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“Freedom from suffering is found not in thick skin or cold reason but in a tender heart that can fully feel the pulp of the difficult and does not judge the imperfect in you or in another person, a heart singularly patched with the passing of time which changes every state as if by magic”

A Tanka in response to Reena’s prompt to choose a bird and divination from An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations and Jim Adam’s Thursday Inspiration

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broken wings can heal
and when the sky is calling
a patched-up heart can
fly just as high as hope, there’s
magic in imperfections

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Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird, fly
Blackbird, fly
Into the light of the dark black night

Blackbird, fly
Blackbird, fly
Into the light of the dark black night

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Songwriters: Paul Mccartney / John Lennon

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Jim Adam’s challenge: Respond to this challenge by either using the prompt word birds, or going with the above picture, or by means of the song ‘Dream a Little Dream of Me’, or by going with another older song that was brought back to life after it was rerecorded, or another song that mentions dreams, or a song where a guy knows exactly what to say to a woman that he loves, or anything else you think fits. 

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18 thoughts on “Imperfect Heart”

  1. Nice choice, Lisa. McCartney wrote this song about the nine Black students that drew national attention in 1957 when they enrolled at a formerly all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education, which was ratified by the Supreme Court just a few years earlier. This was his answer to segregation.

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