Visitors
...Visitors I saw in my garden today were:
9 starlings noisily squabbling
1 duck casually waddling.
1 robin - a handsome little chap
1 bumble bee, that landed on my lap.
2 neighbouring cats, ...
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Categories:
aerobatics, animal, bird, cat, garden,
Form: List
Looper
...Looper
I looped the small plane
Stick forward for speed
Slowly pull it back
And up we climb
Follow the circle
Feel the G force
Upside down at the top
Round we go now
Faster...
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Categories:
aerobatics, flying, sky, teen,
Form: Free verse
Dragonfly Aerobatics
...With thrash of wings our primal fly
lifts off, straight up, into the sky.
He shows off latest flying skills
with loop-the-loop and steep dive thrills.
In this way he patrols his patch
to guard t...
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Categories:
aerobatics, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Beat of the Aerobat
...Into the buoyant blue of a summer sky
I throw my fortune and my hopes.
With wings and wonder I survey
the world above and need some time
up there before descending back to earth.
Advancing thr...
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Categories:
aerobatics, art, courage, fear, flying,
Form: Free verse
Aerobat On a Summer Day
...Draw on frameless blue
lines from the power and pull
of my wings in air....
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Categories:
aerobatics, flying, freedom, summer,
Form: Haiku
Swallows Make Summer
...Where are all our most beautiful swallows?
powder blue skies seem so empty so bare
why does this make my heart feel so hollow?
icons of summer, why do I despair?
longing for a glimpse of this g...
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Categories:
aerobatics, bird, blue, longing, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Kite
...A 2D paper bird
with slender tail no wings
does awesome aerobatics...
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Categories:
aerobatics, bird,
Form: Haiku
White Terns
...Come fly with me
said she
One good tern
deserves
another
And did I so yearn
with her to share
the air
Up we soared
and down we roared
between the sea's deep blue
and sky's paler hue
Be...
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Categories:
aerobatics, bird,
Form: Free verse
Scafell Pike
...Cronking ravens’ aerobatics
between rock-pulpits leaning over,
grey disdainful gate-posts.
Our shouts echoed
as we clambered like ants on a wall,
the lake a far glittering pool
in the dark su...
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Categories:
aerobatics, mountains,
Form: Blank verse
Welcome Swallows
...The Welcome Swallow
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
Every year just before the onset of Spring
The Welcome Swallow visits our farm
We have endured the harshness of Winter
And the Swallow a welcome site ...
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Categories:
aerobatics, appreciation, beauty, bird,
Form: Free verse
Odonata Anisoptera
...Wings of irridescent hue
A body shining 'lectric blue
Multi-facet eyes that see
a world that's strange to you and me
Those compound eyes that give it sight
can see in ultra-violet light
They ...
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Categories:
aerobatics, animal, insect,
Form: Verse
Halloween
...Hours of horrible happenings
Afraid of aerobatics’ artist
Lovely and lively lyrics by louts
Luggage of lies and loss fills the land
Outrageous onslaught on oldies
Weird wards willing to waste
E...
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Categories:
aerobatics, funny, history
Form: Acrostic
Good Morning To You Bird
...Have u ever really stoped and pay attention to the birds in the morning
have you listened to their praises,their praises of joy thats its a new day,
they fly like its the first flight do u watch t...
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Categories:
aerobatics, nature, pets, work, joy,
Form: I do not know?