"A Gull Goes Up
Gulls when they fly move in a liquid arc,
Still head, and wings that bend above the breast,
Covering its glitter with a cloak of dark,
Gulls fly. So as at last toward balm and rest,
Remembering wings, the desperate leave their earth,
Bear from their earth what there was ruinous-crossed,
Peace from distress, and love from nothing-worth,
Fast at the heart, its jewels of dear cost.
Gulls go up hushed to that entrancing flight,
With never a feather of all the body stirred.
So in an air less rare than longing might
The dream of flying lift a marble bird.
Desire it is that flies; then wings are freight
That only bear the feathered heart no weight."
—Léonie Adams
"I've seen quite a few people using -iĉ- to denote masculinity, and treating words that are normally masculine by default as gender neutral, e.g. using patro to mean parent, patrino to mean mother, and patriĉo to mean father." —Savaal8 on r/Esperanto


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