"Tales of a Broken-Winged Bird"

By Chelsea Springer

Tales of a Broken-Winged Bird" is a real and raw poetry book that Highlights Chelsea's (my) ups and downs she has experienced as a Black woman.
This poetry book, will take readers on a journey through Chelsea's battle with depression, grief, her faith in God, healing etc., It is her hope that this book can impact someone else. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: May 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9783755414421

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Chelsea Springer

Tales of a Broken-Winged Bird

This book will take readers on a journey of faith, the realities of mental health and grief and the emotions that come with all of these things. This book is written out of lived experiences, Chelsea has experienced, in her 21 years of life. Tales of a Broken-Winged Bird is a metaphor for how Chelsea often felt broken like a bird, limp like a bird, caged like a bird because of the various painful situations she found herself in. This book highlights her struggles and also the fact that there can be beauty in pain, healing in pain even for a broken-winged bird like her. This book is for all those that have struggled with mental health, their faith in God, and grief. . I dedicate this book to my paw paw who passed away who always encouraged me to write and use my voice. I love you paw paw and I miss you with ALL my heart.

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Tales of a Broken-Winged Bird

Tales of A Broken-Winged Bird

So, the title of my poem book that I have chosen is, Tales of A Broken-Winged Bird.

Everytime, I have written about this title, or just written about a broken-winged bird, I have repeated many times before that to know why a bird is broken and caged, one has to know the bird, and what happened to it, which is not easy, it is like a puzzle piece, a mystery to be solved. Birds, they don’t start out broken, and flightless, wounded, their wings beating on a cage profusely, crying out to be free, to fly, to soar. Birds don’t start out lifeless, limping, but there is something that makes the bird become broken and caged and trapped, lifeless, flightless, crying out, from the depths of its soul, crying out in pain, as the blood flows from its wings, as it continuously beats on its cage to be free, wondering if anyone heard its cries or its tears.

A bird does not just become caged or broken, it becomes like that because of pain, and as we all know pain is something that is inevitable, something that we all must face and go through, pain. One doesn’t have to be ashamed of their pain or their sorrow, for even Jesus wept, it is in pain, and in the rain where things seem to grow in the midst of pain, much is learned through pain, that otherwise couldn’t be learned. It is okay to be broken and bruised, to be wounded, it is okay to experience pain, it is okay to have hurts, to have wounds and scars, it is okay.

I have been there, it is okay to not have many words to say, it is okay when it has felt as if you are in the fire, it is okay if you feel as if you are drowning, it is okay, to not be okay, it is okay to cry, it is okay, to feel hurt when you have been hurt, it is okay, its okay because I’ve been there, and at many times I have found myself there, I have found myself in the wilderness, in the valley, I have found myself, bleeding, on the brink of dying, I have found myself, on the brink of death, I have found myself wishing to die, I have found myself, trapped, and in chains, more times than not. I have often tried to tell myself tales while in my cages of grief, , bipolar 2 disorder ( or bipolar depression) , anxiety, grappling with the fact that I am autistic, emotional mistreatment I have experienced, and my pain that I have experienced within my 21 years of life.

I hope that with this book, people will be able to relate or be able to heal, or my words can resonate with someone else, or reach someone else that also knows what it's like to be like a broken-winged bird.

I dedicate Tales of A Broken-Winged Bird to my paw paw who passed away June 30th, 2020, he was my inspiration for writing