Flight 19 Vanishes

Magnetic anomalies
Often tied to a crystal
That submerged with Atlantis
In Bermuda’s Triangle

Flight 19 left Florida
Routine military squad
Training mission, planes on course
‘Til pilots saw something odd

Sea met sky; which way was up?
Compasses spinning about
Then radio transmissions
They were suddenly without

North and south undistinguished
Seemed like a frightening dream
As the air control on base
Saw them fade from radar’s screen

Rescue effort quickly launched
14 men were lost at sea
But to this day no one knows
What became of Flight 19

Just one of many cases
Bermuda’s Triangle lore
Pilots fall to certain doom
On the cold Atlantic floor

Atlantis technology
May have led to its demise
A sunken crystal’s power
Still lures aircraft from the skies
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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Mister Roboto Avatar
August 11, 2014 at 1:04 AM
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS! ANOTHER ATLANTIS MYSTERY THRU HISTORY! gave it a 7 before, and I did it AGAIN!
Pettit Avatar
January 26, 2012 at 12:29 AM
Congratulations on having your poem featured this week. Carolyn, this place would not know what good poetry looks like unless some of your works were displayed here.
Maverick Avatar
January 24, 2012 at 11:02 AM
I saw your featured poem Carolyn, whilst checking on one of mine that Carol let me know about..) i remember reading of flight 19 years back, i also believe they were heard transmitting quite a while after their fuel flying time was up..) enjoyed the way this took me back...!
Brown Avatar
January 24, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Congratulations on your featured poem this week Carolyn. Love, Carol
Suzadail Jr. Avatar
January 23, 2012 at 7:17 PM
Congrats Carolyn on "Flight 19 Vanishes" being featured. I remember passing through the Triangle in 1965 and the magnetic compasses started acting up. Just an eerie feeling.
Horne Avatar
May 19, 2011 at 3:45 AM
Love this one, Carolyn. I haven't heard about the Bermuda Triangle for years, but I guess incidents are still happening? Hope your appointment went well, my friend.
Dietrich Avatar
January 31, 2010 at 9:53 AM
thanks for reminding people of flight 19. Hey, it's a lot like the flight from that tv series Lost, when you think about it. Shrouded in mystery. I love these kinds of topics, Carolyn, and thanks so much for your comment on my poem of the faithful wife. Someone actually thought I was decribing myself, but I wasn't (although I do have her patience, that 's about it. haha) LUv, Andrea
Harman Avatar
January 9, 2010 at 10:49 AM
You teach people, but somehow are soft enough, not to hurt them.
Delacroix Avatar
September 30, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Interesting write and intriguing leaving the reader room for his or her imagination. Very well written poem. Thank you for sharing. Caroline.
Knop Avatar
August 22, 2009 at 6:03 AM
This mystery still lingers on, Carolyn. If it one day really be solved??? Well written poem and thanks for your comments. Love, Gert
Harrington Avatar
August 11, 2009 at 1:13 AM
i love your poetry, it has such energy. janetta
Begrow Avatar
August 3, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Epic on so many levels. You have a gift with discribing things and still making the poem flow. Absolutly amazing. Tyler.
Doggett Avatar
July 27, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Very, very descriptive and accurate. Asd always great job, Bill
Hayton Avatar
July 25, 2009 at 1:11 PM
You are such a wonderful historical writer Carolyn, you so capture things so beautifully and inturn teach so much.. Wonderful poem, loved it... Your friend Jo xx
Iloduba Jnr Avatar
July 22, 2009 at 3:02 PM
historic stuff u ve here!cheers!
Chircop Avatar
July 22, 2009 at 1:11 PM
soup mail:)
Williams Avatar
July 22, 2009 at 7:48 AM
... would suggest a passage between the two... and perhaps an energy catapult, as such, for traversing light years of distance... or merely a stop over for coffee and cake... what ever we define, we define with human knowledge and human terms... the fact still remains that there is a whole undefined universe out there... just look up at the stars and explain them... great work as always Carolyn... ever questioning.. always original...
Williams Avatar
July 22, 2009 at 7:48 AM
Hi Carolyn... another theory... Earth's core is like any other universal energy source. Star, black hole, planet core.. to a less or greater degree the same spacialy linked energy pattern... and source.. everything is connected.. right.. so.. worm hole in a lesser energy field say compared to a black hole... could be used as a transportation mechanism.. Bermuda triangle and the dragons triangle being on opposite sides of the planet
Hickman Avatar
July 21, 2009 at 4:57 PM
a driven poem to which I do believe in the lost Atlantis,,there are too many mysteries unsolved and as well many many technologies that we have acquired so rather quickly not to have been no Atlantis or no Area 51,,as always my friend you delight and educate and remind us of things so that they will not be forgotten,,and truly Thank You for always reading and leaving such wonderful words on mine and others writes,,blessings..Cecil
Gorelick Avatar
July 21, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Ive been so busy havent had a chance to comment much. As usual, this is terrific. Love the last stanza..Soup Mail Love, BG
Plocica Avatar
July 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Hey! I LOVED THAT! AWESOME! I'm 11, and i LOVE YOUR POEM..............A LOT! X's and O's - Amber.
Freeman Avatar
July 20, 2009 at 4:15 PM
I am certainly a believer that we have brothers more advanced than we on other planets. And that they will not hurt us, for with out a reverent respect for the power of love, they would not have the technology they have. I thank maybe the power your write is about, might have something to do with them! Love Moses!
Peranteau Avatar
July 20, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Carolyn,..I wanted to mail this fer ya,..but I wanted also to let souls know how kind you are as respects, helping your fellow poet! TY for correcting mine grammer in my poem Op art,..which I mis-spelled Opart ! TY again ! james
Peranteau Avatar
July 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Carolyn,..I shake when I here these stories,..( i'm Ahscared ta fly in planes ) ! Great rhyme Carolyn ! You have an incredible flair for this style of expanded poetry,..awesome ! james
Dvorkis Avatar
July 20, 2009 at 6:35 AM
interesting how you have such a high level of detail. this mytery has boggled people since they invented radio and airplane travel. I wonder how people even discovered this crystal, or even just theorized its existence at the bottom of the Atlantic.
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