Back when the Earth was dark there was a lonely blue bird with a beautiful voice
Lonely was the blue bird with just her mesmerizing voice
One Day the blue bird was so lonely she began to sing, when she sang magical things happened
From the sky came the sun, from the earth came water and from the water came humans
With voices just as beautiful as the blue birds’
Finally the blue bird didn’t feel so alone and the people watched in awe as the blue birds’ feathers turned from a sad blue to a happy yellow
The people would stand outside their houses waiting for the rising sun
Singing songs of joy and hope for the day ahead praising the bird for the joys of singing, laughing and joy it’s self
The now yellow bird would hear the praises of the humans and would grant them a good day with a beautiful song
One day a human was tired of praising the bird every morning and decided not to sing to her
The yellow bird, ignored the human for the first few days fearing her creation was sick, she began to sing
But this song unlike her other songs was not a happy one
This was a song of sadness for one of her creations didn’t feel the need to praise her anymore
The yellow birds feathers started to turn blue once again
But she decided she would wait just a little bit longer before talking to her creation
Before she knew it there were only a few of her creations that would praise her for the good day
The yellow and now blue bird was angry that her creations who would not praise her so she sang
A song of anger, the song was so powerful that when some of the humans went to sing nothing came out of their mouths
The only humans who could still sing were the ones who had keep singing and praising the bird
And when they would sing their voices were so beautiful that her blue feathers turned back to yellow one by one
When a new creation was born the blue bird would sing a song if the new creation would cry back with in the first three seconds he or she would be blessed with the gift of song
The words of her song would go like this
In this life
You will sing songs of joy
You will sing songs of happiness
You will sing songs of peace
You will sing songs of laughter
You will sing songs of health
and
You will sing songs of wealth
The new creations would try to mock the bird and if they were successful they were granted the joy of song
The yellow and blue bird would sit up high her tree and sing songs of joy
For the creations hearing the songs of joy would breathe a sigh of relief for they knew their day would be a good one
A song of joy meant that it would bring joy for the day ahead and the sun would shine bright
The songs that were sad would bring rain or snow
The songs of anger would bring hurricanes, thunder, and tornados
The bird would tell her creations that if they sing after seven, you will cry before eleven
The yellow bird loved her creations very much, so she would give them sayings that she expected them to take with them for always
She felt bad when her creations would sing after seven because she knew that something sorrowful would happen before eleven but the creations had to learn their lessons for disobeying the bird
So she let them cry and learn their lesson for she knew everything would be alright
Never whistle back stage she would warn, for the new creations loved theater and dancing
But if one of her creations would whistle back stage it was a fact that something bad would happen
When the bad things that she had warned would happen she would try to stop the bad things but once again she knew her creations wouldn’t learn unless they learned from their mistakes
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The Blue Bird
PoetryThis was a project for school, we read old Native American creation myths and had to make our own, the first thing that came to my mind was music and birds.