Christopher Flaherty Poet Free verse

Paper Aeroplane Dreaming To Be a Maverick

For John Lawless
Paper Aeroplane Contest
14 August 2022

Every child at some point in their life
seeing someone fly a kite for the very
1st time 

Will most probably later on that night 
go to bed and say a prayer for one
of his or her very own 

And who on earth amongst us wouldn't
want to know exactly what that must
feels like 

To be the 1at the end pulling the string's 
and therefore cotrolling the kite's flight 

But for those unfortunate for whom 
a kite they could only dream but never own

They had to make do with making
an aeroplane out of scrap's of paper
 to fly upon a breeze

Hopefully 1 good enough with the right
trajectory of throw and a prevailing
headwind 

Could end up flying so far away the
naked eye could no longer see

Then afterwards only bound by the 
limit's of imagination and gift for 
storytelling wondering where on 
earth it went or ended up landing

Later instead of using paper to build 
aeroplane out of began using it to write on

As with a head now so full of wonderment
akin to a child flying a kite dancing the breeze 

Up and up so high so only downward can
see till so weightless nothing seemed impossible 

Even writing poetry out of alphabetical soup
as now he not only had both the tools to do it
i.e paper and pen 

He had also somehow gained and managed
to harnessed the the most important and
essential ingredient of all

The power of one's imagination that in
the 1st place is needed to make every
dream get off the ground in order so
they can take flight

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