D.W. Rodgers Poet Free verse

A Kite Can'T Fly

A kite can’t fly
without wind.
I’ve more than
enough 
you say,
but can we ground
the spark?

A kite can’t fly
without a flexible
frame
joined as we are
will we bend 
or break?

A kite can’t fly 
without string
too heavy - no lift
too light it snaps 
and tumbles to 
the earth.

And as we watch
our children's
launch
can we ever 
get it right?


MCMXCVIII - revised
MMXIV

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Mohan Chutani July 9, 2014 at 11:40 AM Aberfoyale, nice write. you may like to read my poem on kites, 'soaring kites', Mohan D.W. Rodgers July 9, 2014 at 1:46 PM Thanks Mohan, i did wander across and leave a comment on your poem.

Kaye Locke July 8, 2014 at 3:10 PM Ahh...this reminds me of spending time in the park, watching eagerly while my Dad got very tetchy trying to get our old kite in the air!! Lovely poem, thank you! D.W. Rodgers July 8, 2014 at 4:53 PM Thanks Kaye. However we fly them (or not) kites are lovely but delicate creatures, which as Charlie Brown would attest, often end in trees but leave us all with memories.