Blue Jay And Sparrow : Max Eberts : ( 1 ) : Blue Jay ( Fun Facts ) Narrative Video : Lesley ( Bird Nerd ) : ( 2 ) : : Bird Poems : :

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Blue Jay : : by Max Eberts



Blue feather, blue flame—my father
likes the blue jay over the sparrow
my mother loves. The jay is a winner,

the color of first prize. Blue
is ablaze when the jay takes flight.
Blue—my father’s favorite color.

Once when I was young helping
with yard chores, I found
a blue jay feather glistening in the light—

and ran to show it to my father, who asked,
Is there anything bluer than a jaybird,
unless it’s your brother’s eyes?

It’s true—eyes like blue jade,
eyes that startle when they catch
yours—not brown like mine.

My brother, a real looker, but loud
and raucous, a blusterer always
busting onto the scene, a prankster,

his antics an unrelenting routine—
grabbing food off my plate,
especially steak, hoarding cookies

before downing the last two in the jar,
wrecking my bike, my guitar,
or raiding my tidy room, taking

whatever he likes. But when I enter
the jay bird’s nest, that tousled mess
of a room, to retrieve what’s mine,

he screams at the top of his lungs
Thief! Thief! And when my friends
come over, big brother—taller, stronger—

dares us all to take him on,
goading, shouting, Do it! Do it!
What’s worse is when his friends are over—

a gang of jays ganging up on a sparrow—
the blitz reaches its shrillest pitch.
Yet my father forgives my brother

for his noisy ways, his bad habits,
just as he does the jay—too beautiful,
too spirited not to forgive.

My brother, too handsome, too boyish
not to favor, always showing off,
always stirring up my father’s pride.

The natural athlete hurls himself
into danger the way a jay bounds
with ease through perilous tree tops.

Diving headfirst to steal home plate, flying
into the end zone for a touchdown pass,
like a jay swooping to snatch

a cicada on the wing—my brother,
a winner, Fall River’s Boys League
MVP, every year, every sport,

taking first prize. And so for years,
I kept that glistening blue feather—
perfect, beautiful as his eyes—placing it

in an old leather box my father gave me,
stashing it under my lucky jersey,
my blue baseball jersey,

certain it would give me power—
to play like him, to be handsome like him,
to win my father’s pride.
— Max Eberts

” Blue Jay and Sparrow”, A Bird Poem By Max Eberts is About The Two Birds , their life – like Pictorial depictions ; “The first prize Winner Blue Jay having Blue feather, blue flame : : the color of first prize. Blue is ablaze ( looking brilliant ) when the jay takes flight.”; 💙 And About The sparrow of brown colour of low brightness and low saturation like Wood 🪵 ; And About The Speaker’s World in association With These Two Birds and his own Family of his Father and Mother and With father’s blue eyed son , taller and stronger , his big brother having eyes , more bluer than the Jay Bird. : The Speaker believes this as “true”as he calls the said eyes consisting of “jaded” , that is, ‘blueish green’ colour, “startle/ surprise with taking hold of you / “catch(ing)” , that is, succeed in seeking your complete attention. Not like his own brown 🟤 colour of eyes.

The Speaker kept “glistening blue colour feather” ( found by him while doing some tasks in home yard ) “in an old leather box his father gave him.” He saved it up as for future use by “stashing under his lucky blue baseball jersey” : He was “certain that it would give him power to play like his big brother, to be as handsome like him to win his father’s pride.” — “His brother” was always “a winner, Fall River’s Boys League
MVP ( Member Vice President ) every year, every sport,” : The Speaker honours His brother as “too handsome, too boyish , not to favor, always showing off, always stirring up my father’s pride.”: : He has described his brother calling him a “real looker, but loud
and raucous ( rowdy ) , a blusterer( big mouth ) always busting ( raiding ) onto the scene ( to get what he needed ), a prankster” ( playing jokes on others ) : When he gangs up with his friends , he looks like so many “Jays” in group have come over the “groups of Sparrows taking them on, goading and shouting , emitting the highest level shrill.” Yet the “father forgives his brother for his noisy ways, his bad habits, just as he does , ( like ) the jay—too beautiful, too spirited not to forgive. The Speaker narrates how his brother is unreasonable in his odd outrageous tricks in “his antics”, an “unrelenting ( continual ) routine— grabbing ( snatching ) food off my plate, especially steak, hoarding cookies ( in large numbers ) before downing the last two ( eats up entirely leaving hardly two ) in the jar 🫙🫙, wrecking ( bringing ) my bike, my guitar (to a weakened/fallible condition), or raiding my tidy room, taking whatever he likes. But when I enter the jay bird’s nest, that tousled mess ( disorderly Jam/ mess up ) of a room, to retrieve ( bring/get back, recollect ) what’s mine, he screams at the top of his lungs : Thief! Thief ! : : : :

The natural athlete hurls ( thrusts ) himself ( forward ) into danger the way a jay bounds ( springs up to move forward ) with ease through perilous ( unsafe ) tree tops. The Speaker presents a picture of “Diving headfirst to steal home plate, flying
into the end zone for a touchdown pass,
like a jay swooping ( moving down as if attacking on prey ) to snatch
a cicada ( stout bodied insect with large membranous wings ) 💸 on the wing—my brother, ( pounces on to be ) a winner.” 🏆🏆

It is clearly established from the aforesaid discussion as presented by The Poet Speaker in the way to looking through the Blue Jay Bird switching seemingly the two living beings domineering the locale of his living during the time when he was young and growing up alongwith his big brother and The Blue Jay Bird alongside both being substitutional and with an exemplary standing in the place of one another. Although his big brother in Blue and Blue Jay Bird outshined the embrowned Sparrow – like little brother –the Poet Speaker remains inseparable From his inspiring Family just like a Familiar House Sparrow From The Human habitation. 🏠🏡🏠🏡

“Blue Jay And Sparrow”, A Bird Poem By Max Eberts Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India December 18, 2023 : : : : : : : :