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Casting Our Magic

priming for takeoff, preparing for flight
timing is touch and go, let's make it tight
climbing the mountains and soaring the heights
rhyming is sonorous, sounding just right

cruising at altitude, floating on air
choosing to wander without any care
musing so merrily, flourishing flair
fusing the forms in a fun-filled affair

thriving, lush scenery, everywhere found
striving serenely, selecting sweet sounds
driving the engines, we're now homeward bound
arriving back safely, wheels on the ground

lasting enchantments are there for the tell
contrasting oddities, things we know well
blasting bright images, conjuring smells
casting our magic with poetic spells

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THIRD PLACE WINNER
for the "Magical Spell" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Robert James Ligouri
written 03/14/2022

Copyright © Jeff Kyser | Year Posted 2022

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Robert James Liguori Date: 3/17/2022 10:45:00 AM A poem times two! Very magical too! Congrats on placement. Login to Reply Jeff Kyser Date: 3/17/2022 10:53:00 AM Thanks for holding the contest, Robert - that was very enjoyable, and a good theme

Paula Goldsmith Date: 3/17/2022 9:57:00 AM Congratulations on your win. A creative/magic write. Love your line, "casting our magic with poetic spells." And we do. Have a great/blessed day writing away....................... Login to Reply Jeff Kyser Date: 3/17/2022 10:31:00 AM thanks, paula - I love it when I read a poem and get transported elsewhere, even if for a few moments! Have a blessed day!

Natasha L Scragg Date: 3/17/2022 8:11:00 AM This is such a fluid reading. I love your frequent use of alliteration. It makes the words just roll off the tongue. Congrats on your win in this contest :-D Login to Reply Jeff Kyser Date: 3/17/2022 9:22:00 AM Thanks, Natasha, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Margarita Lillico Date: 3/17/2022 7:22:00 AM Congrats! Your original take on any theme is what I find so fascinating! M. Login to Reply Jeff Kyser Date: 3/17/2022 7:32:00 AM I'm told I was dropped on my head a few times at an early age :-). Thanks, fun to try to find a different perspective!

Christuraj Alex Date: 3/17/2022 4:57:00 AM A very beautiful magical rhyme. Beautifully written. Congratulations! Login to Reply Jeff Kyser Date: 3/17/2022 5:53:00 AM Thank you, I really enjoyed this one!

L Milton Hankins Date: 3/14/2022 8:39:00 AM Fine writing, my friend. I enjoyed the flight. I found your dispensing with capitalization and punctuation novel. I can't seem to get away from it; but then, I have no reason to. Good stuff! Login to Reply Jeff Kyser Date: 3/17/2022 8:30:00 AM a lot of the lines were just phrases rather than full sentences, which I think helps move you through it without pausing as much. I find alliteration helps me with pacing too L Milton Hankins Date: 3/14/2022 11:57:00 AM It's a marvelous poem, Jeff. Make no apologies for your style, whatever it is you choose. I have a wide range I write within, I think. I enjoy diversity, differences. I'm slow to criticize how another person frames their creation. I just want to be able to read it and understand what the poet is saying. Sometimes, the poet is saying a lot with form and format alone, i.e. shape poems, diamante, etc. Jeff Kyser Date: 3/14/2022 8:45:00 AM punctuation is a plague for me! I never know what to do, get all these elaborate uses of ;,: and then I had someone tell me to use it very sparingly and let the reader decide, and I'm like, what? thanks, this was just 3 stanzas, and I then I hoped it created a bit of a "spell" going on a flight to fancy, so I added the last stanza and entered it!