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Premium Member Broken Eagle Soars Again

I hold three magic rocks, in my hand.
Rolling them over and over and over.
Leaving reality behind, far behind.


once an eagle 
    with a clipped wing 
            attempting 
without surrender to once again 
command the infinite azure sky;
       continually nosediving 
whenever tossed in the air.
his convalescence 
        punishingly long;
               now complete. 
embarking on a mission 
to quiet doubting Thomases 
that sounded a death knell for him
and laughed him off as 
                      a paper plane 
incapable of flying 
far beyond the horizon...
                 look at him today! 
look at him soaring above 
majestically; 
     his journey 
from the depth of asperity 
to the dizzying heights of majesty...
            m  a  g  i  c  a  l: 
almost miraculous.
           he's withered 
the slings and arrows of life 
intact; he's in flight once again 
          a testament 
to his strength and resilience.

Aftermath of Hurricane Florence Eye Deux

discovered primacy birthright
(i.e. revanchist deeded sic - seeded),
what "she," viz Mother Nature
     felt tubby "her" right,
bar no holds Gaia
     pulled out all stops
     punishingly ravaged North Carolina
     mercilessly didst wring

havoc bore out flooding
     and proved accurate "NON
     FAKE" fervent devout 
     alarmist theologians
     appropriating weather forecasters dire
     prediction as doomsday message
     fore taste testing, telling, and texting
     presaging Armageddon authored

     by cosmic playwright,
whence global pulverizing,
     savaging, and torturing spite
     fully sucker punching
     swing, perhaps indicative dire strait
(a hunch from this topflight
atheist) posits ultraright
religionists possibly ascribe
     divine creator a bit uptight.

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