Best Airplane Poems

My white-washed bars surrounded me -
they held me as I slept;
they soothed me when the days were long,
and mother’s blue-eyes wept.

A baby girl, six months...

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At day's end, I take in the last light
seeping into the dark waters
across the bay and keep it here.
I gather the sound of departing gulls
smudged...

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The page
bears so eagerly
the weight
of everything
inside of me
my pen prostrate
leaves a dent

I muse
this paper could use 
some weightlessness

I make an airplane
instead...

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A  is for Anton van Leeuwenhoek- in his simple  microscope made him well-known,
B is for Benjamin Franklin who invented  the electricity ...

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A a 	big A little a
                   What...

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Erector sets and wooden blocks
Dominoes and house of cards
Built way up to be knocked down
Scattered all across the ground
Model cars and airplane kits
Making sure each...

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He spat with high contempt
    and requires its place
    One minute of silence ... not a second more
 ...

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Rain drizzling on the window pane
Sullen moments, filled with melancholy
Wishes glued to hopes of sunshine
Rays washing away the storm clouds, 
The gray day – the...

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Verse 1 

Heaven drips its honeydew,
Pouring love where it’s overdue…
Your fetching face is in its view,
For heaven drips its honeydew…

V2

Sunshine breaks serenading thru,
My country lips,...

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Sometimes I just go crazy
Trying to give my kid his medicine
You have to be some kind of genius
You know, like Thomas Edison?

And I've tried almost...

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There is no plum-colored ermine trimmed cloak to be worn, 
and no one's pen is a royal scepter which gems will adorn.
Poets are just ordinary...

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You knew you were going to die. 1
And yet you came, thinking no matter how insane,
the man on the seat of power would never want...

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California
Sunny, warm 
Swimming, boating, sunning
Sky, airplane, ocean, seashells
Skiing, sledding, snowball throwing
Cold, blistery
New York City...

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Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind

(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging...

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There once was a day I would watch every airplane.
Praying you was on it to come take me away.
As a child I wanted you around...

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