Joey Smarty-pants here, you have read stories about budgies but have you ever read one written by a budgie?
Josie Smarty-pants Nibbles (my mate) and I want to tell you about what it is like to be a budgie. For starters, Josie is a 3-month-old Lutino female and I am an 11-month-old grey wing, green and yellow male. We live in a flat in Burnaby Canada with our two mommies.
We are very ordinary budgies but we can talk in context and you can understand us if you listen very closely. Josie is just learning how to talk and she still has some trouble with human words, but I am teaching her and someday she will speak as well as I can.
We fight and make up; I always tell her I love her every morning when I wake up. She
is a special budgie to me, Carol (my mommy) tells us that humans do not always say I love you,
maybe they should.
Josie and I love western music, especially when it tells a story. Carol calls me the Cowboy Budgie and I agree. Josie is more of a city budgie but she likes the love songs.
Of course, we do live in cages, fly around, eat millet and generally get into trouble, all the usual things a budgie does. We do not do tricks, but we have other things we like to do.
I have created a book for a little boy with cerebral palsy; the name of the book is ”Budgies Talk, I Talk”. My budgie friends and I got together to create stories, poems and songs for Little Ryan, Carol put them in book form and gave them to him. Every night his parents read it to him that is our greatest accomplishment so far, we hope to write many more poems and stories.
We are good at protecting my second mommy, we watch closely because she is very elderly.
we always let her caregivers know if she needs help by shouting.
As you can see Josie and I are very busy budgies, we have fun teasing each other, making up and keep our mommies very busy.
I want you to have one of my poems, I hope you like it.
Come Fly with Me!
I can fly,
I can fly so high!
Make a wish and spread your wings,
Come and play with me!
For, I am a little budgie, and
I can fly and I can really soar!
You are a little boy, who can only sit and watch,
You dream and plan that magic time when you will really fly!
Then come fly with me and feel the wind lift up my tiny wings,
For I am your dream of flight come true!
When you dream the way, you do
© Ceol
#1 by Coastpoet on January 14, 2010 - 12:19 pm
‘From a Budgie’s Point of View’ has touched me in a deep way…it is a story and poem of compassion…the budgies tell who they are and they give hope to a little boy who could only sit and watch but can now dream…this ‘Budgie Tale’ is superb in its very being…what a wonderful gift you have to create a writing like this.
Coastpoet