Short High Flying Poems

So high flying high
My spirit leaves this world to…
To find a way home...

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my eyes drift to the sky
good a so-so feeling
a moment away from the numb...

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Tourists in French city of Nice
Saw a high-flying skein of geese
Saying “Isn’t it nice?”
Frenchmen stared at them twice
Shouting “It isn’t nice, it’s Nice!”...

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The nature surrounds us everywhere
In deep running water or high flying air
So we need not to complain
We have to forget our pain
Let's look at natural beauty and stare...

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Precious golden dove 
Robins and Sparrows
As wings fluttering,  flowing
I'm so high flying 
So high floating 
In the skies
Up high for the love of you...

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Wildlife 35

A soaring and high-flying martin,
Was gliding before his departing,
But before his migration
There was some conflagration,
'Cause the bird right in front kept on fartin'!...

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High Flying Flag
Dr. James E. Martin
©December, 2012

The flag was perched aright
It was properly lit at night.
It drew many views,
Was daily in the news,
Till it vanished from everyone’s sight....

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so where it goes my 
fluttering floral flying
butterfly flying
~
 low and forward toward 
the ground flying high in sky 
flying butterfly

9/18/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Is heaven where you live out
  your dreams

Those fond wishes life never
  allowed

Is eternity that place
  not yet seen

Where you awaken
—a high flying cloud

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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Trapeze artists paint lofty subjects
Some given to Fate's flights of fancy
Though most favor nets over drop cloths
The Sistine Chapel had the Lord's touch











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Cloud that looks like wave
Is entered by jet
Quick exit outside
Pilots vision fogged?
Clouds follow fast jet

Clouds being pulled
Or so it seems
Air currents flow
With the great jet

Whispy clouds
High flying 
Fanbrush strokes

Airy 
Fluffy

Clouds...

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High flying waves
Unprecedented size
Rocking the Atlantic
Raging the East coast 
Intimidating ;
Creating a day inside;
A break from the grind 
Nature grounds us, tells us,
Everyone unwind 

Surge of power 
Anything but average 
No one will stand alone 
Down, but  not undone
Yes we will survive this storm...

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Little fires of the night,
Bringing dreams with their light.

Little fires fly so high,
Becoming stars in the sky.

Little fires, little fires won't you come down soon?
It must get lonely up so high flying with the moon.

Little fires, little fires the day is becoming clear,
Little fires, little fires you will soon dissappear....

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circus haiku

coming of circus
summers biggest fun event….
wait seems forever

eight year old girl sees
glamorous trapeze artists…
through myopic eyes

diary explodes
magical high flying acts…
new life’s ambition

duty intervenes
diary lies unopened…
trapeze acts a dream

advanced age hampers
high flying acts beyond reach....
bungee jump perhaps...

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vacant days of big fat cats
little old ladies with big
white hats

summer naps followed
by soft summer nights
turning into silver
dreams of.....

conjured up lovers
and riding machines

pasting in books of

innocent looking guys
with high flying schemes

brothers tender then 
hostile;  old loves gone
cold........

waiting for a ring
by a small black phone...

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This may have been posted two or three years ago.  If so, please forgive.

Desert Walk

I long to take a desert walk,
Where stunning violet shadows stalk,
And high-flying eagles circle my way,
Curious about what I will say..

Silhouetted in a streak of red,
My feathered friends know no dread;
Awash in the sunset of Georgia O’Keefe,
Soon to find their perch to sleep....

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the pain in his brain burned the clarity into my eyes
fuzzy from tears, 
misunderstanding these fears as i felt he would die 
the sting that once was in my throat from screaming through the smoke
high, flying high 
where harm couldn't reach on wings of those who would destroy us, 
bleeding with rings red from another face, 
his own reflection shattered at his baby sisters embrace...

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The cat bit the rat
Cos the rat bit the bat
Cos the bat bit the gnat
Cos the gnat bit me

Because, I loved the cat
but the cat loved the bat
and the rat loved the gnat
and the bat loved me

But cats that eat rats
And bats that eat gnats
And folk who like cats
Ain’t insane to me

But all of the stats 
That say high flying bats
Can’t be chewed on by rats
Needs explainery!...

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I AM SAILIN---FLYIN HIGH IN HEAVEN-


The love that you where is in my heart
Thoughts in my mind rising
Unto the skies
I'm sailing
On wings of angels
High flying high with Jesus
Flying
Flying high
With Jesus
Thoughts in my mind risen
Unto the skies
I'm sailin
On wings of angels
High flying high with Jesus
Flying
Flying high
With Jesus
AMEN


1/21/19
written by James Edward Lee Sr.2019©...

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Up but down…part-3

In my errand for a fill of
Hilly air, I can’t forget its 
Kicking present, its woes and ills
Carrying that down-to- earth ache

To sooth which I run up and down
While the days worryless and dour
Don’t dither in their flow. And I
Turn to musing on these hills

Long after my bus had belted
Down its narrow, winding slopes
Tearing away its dry and shy
But superbly high-flying air...

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FLYING HIGH... 

The pipe is the trigger
I load my gun
And swallow the bullets
Straight to my lungs
With every drag
And hit I take
My thoughtless mind
Will come awake
All the months of pain
I can no longer take
No more loved ones dying
Or endless hours spent crying
ON this substance I'm relying
to escape I'm tired of trying
I'm not living
Just slowly dying
maybe just denying
Only time the pain subsides
When I'm high flying...

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“Smooth Mouths”

Lawyer’s moral , much like my limericks,
So full of bull and high flying gimmicks,
  When all the money is gone,
  Sing a different sad song,
Banks full of money, won’t buy all their tricks.

Literal limericks, gimmicks and tricks,
Philladelphia boys are really slick,
  From their silver tongue,
  The truth seldom sung, 
They know how to pocket, from pockets picked.

For: Lawyer Limericks
In honor of: Carolyn Devonshire...

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In fantastic literature 
    one can see 
intimations of a better world 
Does it not seem to you 
   that it is good to leave this sordid reality 
and fly to imaginary lands?
I don't care what people think about that 
I find it good to revel in the mysterious and the unknown 
    A volume of fantastic verse 
    can allow one to take flight 
like   a high - flying bird 
   flying over terrain 
which he can cover 
    swiftly 
and have a good time doing so...

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