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12/28/2025 for Lyrical Tribute Poetry Contest sponsored by Tom Woody
Fly on Angel
"The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again"
~ from an unpublished poem by Jimi Hendrix.
A shy boy came of age in purple smoke
and learned to play a guitar that spoke
with a voice of feedback and bending note.
"Fly on angel" were words he wrote.
Not yet heard of, psychedelic,
both demonic and angelic,
his guitar was something wild,
a nineteen-sixties flower child.
Life and love is hello and goodbye
until we meet again -
gone, in the blinking of an eye,
a flower among men.
Wordless sound stories spun from strings
gave cosmic flight to little wings,
made my consciousness swirl
and open up to find a pearl.
His life upon this earth was brief,
An eye blink took him like a thief.
"Fly on angel", he wrote before he died.
"Tomorrow, I'll be by your side".
Life and love is hello and goodbye
until we meet again -
gone, in the blinking of an eye,
a flower among men.
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