Angst Flight Poems

* This may be turned into a Lyric later.

It's happening again
Fight or flight, don't you know? 
It's happening again
Fear and anger, putting on a show

I...

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Upon an old, majestic house,
An eagle trapped, her spirit broken.
With wings constrained, and softly spoken
Words, she whispered, like a mouse

“Tell my how the clouds feel...

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Flight of the Love Birds

Perched alone and vulnerable
like an untended egg
a dove sits bare and shivering
exposed to the vast world.
 
Broadcasting his presence,
hungry eagle swoops
and...

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Prisoner mortally confined,
plotting your escape like Papillon,
conceiving freedom like a zoo animal.
Then dreaming on, 
you meet a flying child in all your mirrors.
Nearly weightless, pulled...

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You walk toward me. I think: This is the night!
My teenage heart begins to thump thump thump.
I swear it feels like it has taken flight
because...

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The country is at war again
War of hustle and bustle for power
Power for self aggrandizement 
All in the name of democracy 

Birds of prey are...

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Sometimes I wonder if I share the same 
transparent property as water and air
if the frequency of my voice is too low 
or high to...

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LAST FLIGHT

As a young bird I sang a whimsical tune that no one quite understood.  Since my first departure, I never stopped flying not...

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Lay your head down to rest on the desk of sooth stones and mild rock formations and I will caress your eyelids to veil your...

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COMMON SENSE TAKES FLIGHT

Dredged between river beds

Screams of woe and cellphones

Clawed by sticks and stones

Floating upriver

Glasses unhinged

Shirt around throat like a poisonous snake

Drowning in fate

Kicking...

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The Last flight- as I get low





Glistening glass shattered
and smashed pieces laid on floor,
With the news of an accident
that made my twin soul bid good...

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I awoke this morning,
All was Grand.
Till I met my neighbor....
A lemon in her hand.

“Hold still” she shouted
“A target I need”.
 So there I stood
 As...

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Squadron leader to his Sergeant.

Another fatality Felicity,
another regimental letter of commiseration,
another space to type in with a name a rank
another space to enter our lives,
on...

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Dark skies...

      Burning souls...

                Acid...

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alarm!!
rise up    take flight 
killdeer cry...

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