Leonardo da Vinci felt flying
was possible, sketching wings in detail.
And the fact that birds flew kept him trying,
even when all of his efforts would fail.
An artist and a brilliant engineer,
he designed dreams drawn by his gifted pen.
But his passion for flying was sincere,
although that goal eluded him back then.
All his life, he invented contraptions
designed to unlock the secrets of flight.
And his alterations and adaptions
haunted his inquisitive dreams at night.
Yet, despite how much one may desire it,
some indulgences fate will not permit.
I have stood on many shores
and felt the long evolution of the deepest waves
where life spawns its leaping adaptions.
I have listened
to the trumpeting of great armored sea-bulls
echoing in the shallow bladder-wrack,
and on that splashing surface
invisible snouts blow from
an ancient depth below.
There where the tusked wolf
first dipped a paw into brine
a proto-creature struggling to survive
its bones already growing
razorback fins.
There also did the fanged manatee
thunder in its savage heart
as it plowed the screeching storms,
tempests that shaped its life
with its glittering saws.
Before the porpoise leapt
before the whale shipped its gray prow
Jekyll and Hyde clawed each other
through a gibbosity of flesh,
and where the skin flew
rat tails grew gills and jagged jaws,
behemoths burst from
slow wading, pod sheltering strays.
All churned in a rolling race
as if a keen edged spray
modeled bones,
a frantic saline transitioning
that even now
as I stand by a washing tide
calls and plows me deep
seeking my own extinct
and monstrous forms.
Boudoirs blushing bloodline
Adaptions; fabulous' fifth
Element read temptations..
Theatric lines unto myself
Feline femme fatale's
That I could touch taste feel
Film noirs vivacious staged
Lighting within facades
Myoptic glow; across lifes
Scripted pages felicities
Voluptuous featured
Production show...
Madame Margaret Mitchell
Introducing viscerals vortexic
Vivien Leigh; vertigo Scarlett's
Dreams; upon fascination street.
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Boudoirs blushing bloodline adaptions....
Fabulous' fifth element read temptations theatric lines unto me
Feline femme fatale that I could taste, touch and see!?
Film noirs vivacious staged lighting within facades myoptic glow
Across lifes scripted pages felicities voluptuous featured production show
Madame Margaret Mitchell introducing viscerals vortexic Vivien Leigh
Vertigo Scarlett upon, fascination street....
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....Gone With the Wind?!
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