Business Class
...”Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We met in business class
Me the wi...
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Categories:
deplaned, encouraging, flying, humanity, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Whoops
...Bob is a grown baby
Spoiled rotten by two doting parents
They do not get along well
Have been divorced for years
Agree on only one thing
Bob should be coddled and supported
At forty, he has n...
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Categories:
deplaned, parents,
Form: Narrative
Plain Things
...Plain things in plain clothes doing plain things.
Took a plane, deplaned in fresh air of the plains.
Found plain things not drab sans complaint.
Complacency in plain places displaced.
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Categories:
deplaned, appreciation,
Form: Alliteration
That Familiar Quickening... Part 1
...Turbine whistling
Wait...
Until all is green
Time to go
That familiar quickening
Of a heart
Trained in the art of war
To do battle
Rotors spinning
Left and right...
The tech calls
Cl...
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Categories:
deplaned, people, war, art, art,
Form: Ballad