Best Updraft Poems

Updraft
        by Odin Roark

He sees the journey endless
Yet knows well of endings

He senses the other side of heart
That...

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And I begin my own steep climb into 
The Chalkland Downs              ...

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In the nighttime hours
As the world deftly creeps by
I summon my powers
Spread my wings and fly
Past cotton clouds,
Snow-capped mountains, white
I am lost and I am...

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The hawk lay upon the lazy late afternoon 
air currents;
Floating, circling, spiraling, ever downward.
Its wings spread wide, white feather-tips splayed.
It teetered on the updraft 
above...

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Boisterous clouds are churning, roiling air-mass in warm updraft
Declaring on callous inhabitants of earth, a dark ferocious war 
Manifesting malevolent force, imposing anger on spatial...

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A kestrel dips into an updraft
thinking he knows the world
tranquility gurgles 
through silent valleys
over mountains
around the earth
refracted 
through the wind

The creature soars ever higher
in great...

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From out of the west and the flaming Sun, an entrance he did make.
There’s none like this one, an American Eagle, make no mistake!
He’d served...

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Unable to grasp the the context
Despite her greatest resolve
The Queen Bee frowns at her, vexed
Into the background my girl dissolves

Hive order is a nasty one
Mean...

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Butterfly Wing Man


OH …. would I……could I……should I…..????
Write about the butterfly…….and why?

Awakens from his past ---full fledged
while beneath I stand ---still pledged

To hold my ground...

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September Song(for Sarah)



Chill September days
show off
silver gulls,
suspended as they are
on strings of blue.


Caught in the updraft
I think of you,
and do not fully understand
how you turned...

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Their wing span stretched to full extent 
to catch the updraft compliment. 
Still bodies caught in endless flight
Gray backs roll to sleek plumed white 

Ever...

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The clouds hung low as oft they do
still I went out to play.
They said hello, as I passed through
a-skipping on my way.
Then in the flow...

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The ocean, eternal, spreads wide
Reflecting slate, somber storm clouds
While beachgoers, eight stories down,
Gather towels and scurry fast
From a squall shedding white lightning,
Dull, delayed drumbeat of...

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I am 5’6”, 43 pounds thick; a stick figure at war with gravity.
Balloon lungs, eyes of the sun, I walk at the edge of death,...

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Snow Flake And Mountain

A snow flake came down, in turns, in twists, in blizzard company
Never lands, captured in an updraft, lifts up with other plans
A...

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