Flying Poems | Examples of Flying Poetry

It Just Won't Let Me Go

       Something’s rumbling inside me
        pushing, kicking
        shoving, shouting 
     And it won’t let me go, oh no
     It just won’t let me go… 

  

Flies

Flies love figs, oaks, elms, and willows; we know.
They play hide-and-seek with leaves tinged with snow.
In their purblind fondness, our hearts get sparked?
Do they flee from us because we're crook-backed?

Around us, wingers of every kind fly.
We often love their melancholic cry.
Isn't each fly as fine as a butterfly?
Shouldn't each be the master of the sky?

The

Moving Stars

beside the river
what a night! darkness is great
fireflies moving stars

Poetry's Perspective

     The bottom is made out of rubber
        hit it, you bounce up again

     The top though is left uncovered 
        fly past it on wings of a pen

Saturday Surprise

Poll Parrot belonged to little Addie, and he always lingered by her side.
People admired the well spoken companion, like the dusky skies, dyed.

Poll Parrot could talk a blue streak, and seemed like one of the family.
He greatly loved Addie's tea parties, when he ate toast and tea, gladly!

He loved flying around his garrett room, with

Hiku: emotions

it has no legs
yet  m  o  v  e  s  faster 
   than l**i**g**h**t**n**i**n**g ~
true e°•m°•o°•t°•i°•o°•n°•s 

                        ~s~
       

Flight Number Hiku 1399

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Flying Is For The Birds

If all goes well
airlines will sell
seats by the pound
the less you weigh
the less you pay
to fly the world around
and yet
if a commercial Russian airliner jet
unfortunately
crashed into the sea
would there be
Aeroflotsam on the ocean
fragmented and floating free?

It's a riddle
inside a mystery
wrapped in an enema
from 1939 Soviet Union history.

He Took a Walk

He took a walk
to see the view.
They found a sock.
A rose, he threw.

Blue was the sky - 
the ocean, too.
He wondered why.
They found a shoe.

A bluff so high,
an eagle flew.
He could not fly.
His love was true.

A blood-red rose,
and then he knew,
and so time froze.
The tide withdrew.

A Blackbird Flies Before the Moon

A blackbird flies before the moon,
A life shall pass away;
A death, a bird,
Together stirred,
Fused in a lunar ray;
The wings of a fate falling soon.

flying lesson

The flying lesson

White as a shroud, the virtual paper in front of me
I wanted to record my first flight in a Dakota plane 
Inside, the aircraft looked like a bus, reaching under
my seat for the parachute, the steward said
there wasn't, but he handed me boiled sweets which
I didn't eat in case it was a drug keeping

FLYING SWINGS

FLYING SWINGS*
Flying swings,
Built on the thrill of gravity’s gentle hand,
Lift us up, strange birds
Into the turning sky
Where joy sways with the breeze,
Childhood's dance suspended in the air. 

Hands raised high,
We chase the cloud-choked horizons
Each swing weaving stories,
Where freedom tastes like cotton candy,
A dash of courage,
In every soaring arc.

For just a while,
The earth holds its breath,
And

Life after death

Death strikes with its wicked grin,
Deep grief and sorrow it brings,
Flights to heaven then begin,
When our souls fly without wings,
Each saint bears a halo ring,
They reign there as queens and kings,
With Angels near a calm spring.





Contest title: What Happened After 
Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud
Date: 18th July, 2025

After the Birds

Yes, her hair was looking great;
she'd spent so long on getting 
ready for this longed for day - 
the seaside with her boyfriend.
She stepped outside the beach hut,
her love knelt, a ring held out -
and a flock of seagulls pooped!

written 18th July for Nette's 'After' contest

Writing Like the Dickens

    It’s so hard to start
    Brain and pen, poles apart

       Yet two lines in, the pace quickens
       Soon you’re writing like the dickens

    Thoughts stream in and out your head
   

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