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A Valentine For The Birds

by Kelly Callahan

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4.6

Type

Activity

Meditation

Suitable for

Everyone

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This poem offers a bird’s eye view of a Valentine’s Day craft project at the Center. Every February, our elders affected by dementia made birdseed hearts to take home and hang in their yards. Made with love…and a dash of jealousy.

Valentines Day Birds Crafting Elders Dementia Love Jealousy Nature Community Creativity Multilingual Nature Connection Community Bonding Creative Endeavors

Transcript

We sat outside under the olive tree.

Someone measured the seeds.

Someone measured the syrup.

Someone wanted to stir.

Using spoons and fingers,

Everyone pressed the sticky seeds into greased hearts.

Everyone made a valentine for the birds.

For the birds,

Cried the man who liked to stir.

And they get to fly.

Under fiesta sombreros.

Under the olive tree.

Laughter.

In many languages.

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Kelly Callahan San Jose, CA, USA

4.6 (225)

Recent Reviews

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Catherine

December 12, 2025

“Laughter in many languages”: this short sentence stays with me…thank you🙏🏻🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🙏🏻

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Vickie

April 27, 2024

I love this poem. It makes me smile to think of a community coming together to make the birds a valentine and enjoying each others company.

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Neddie

February 25, 2024

💕🤗 lovely

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Lola

August 9, 2022

Thank you. I can relate I’m a bird lover. I love the added bird singing.

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Godavari

July 15, 2022

So sweet 👏 Love the birds tweeting. The prose made me chuckle. 💝 Birds deserve Valentines 💝

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Jaene

June 18, 2022

So beautiful. Thank you, Kelly. ❤️🕉✊

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Jayne

May 4, 2022

🕊💜🙏

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jesse

February 21, 2022

I'm grateful,humble Beautiful inside and out.Im an Actor,Model,Christian with Love ,courage and a Purpose AmeN 🙏 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

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Amy

February 14, 2022

Loved this!! Thank you!

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joe

February 2, 2022

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you for this beautiful meditation today I get to enjoy life today I get to be a better person thank you for pointing me in the right direction today my friend Namaste 💛🙏🏼

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Frank

December 13, 2021

:-)

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Serban

July 6, 2021

Very nice!!! Short and sweet !

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June 5, 2021

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Creative

February 20, 2021

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this with us.

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Karen

February 14, 2021

Lovely, just lovely :)

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Cin

February 14, 2021

Beautiful, I can picture the lovely scene and laughter. Thank you for sharing your poem.

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Yvonne

February 14, 2021

Thank you 🙏 🐤🐦 sending gratitude and blessings 🙏🙏

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Julie

February 14, 2021

That was so lovely thank you Namaste 🙏🏻

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Valérie

February 14, 2021

Short, sweet, and joyous. I will likely listen to this every morning. It made my heart smile.

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