Short Lift Off Poems

Gravity can’t hold
The boatman’s been paid what’s owed
The body left cold

By Robb A. Kopp...

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The
wings
of the
morning light
ignite a picture
painted in imagination's flight


Inspired by Psalm 139 :9...

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Ms. Muffet won’t lift off her tuffet.
Cream puffs and cheetos won’t help.
A spider is beside the point…

3/17/2020...

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Dodo has wings but can't fly.
Flimflam wings flip flop flutter,
Flapping flimsy flight feathers
Fails to get lift off...

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secluded cove shore
passing speed boat makes large wakes
flapping black ducks now
lift off, fly low and scatter
to cattail grove of refuge...

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Skydive

Engines roaring out
Lift off, up into the sky
Higher and higher
We go, jump out, soaring down
Thrust up, floating to the ground....

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while we're still dreaming
a book is lift off the shelf
out of our own past.




written: August 29, 2021...

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Reindeer lift-off to the sky;
A one night, round trip, world flight;
Exhausted elves bedding down;
Jolly man’s night ride....

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open the air
lock into
outer
space
but wait
in my weight
less state
more
like floating
in a water
less ocean
looking
blindly for
a knife to cut
the cord from
the mother
ship...

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motorcycle roars
penetrating the quiet night
shattering the silence

aircraft on the runway
jet engines scream before lift off
to the clouds above

on the waterfront
ocean liner calling her flock
- the loud blaring horn...

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I peel back 
one layer after another,
getting closer to 
something I can feel 
flinching as I lift off
each cover.
I do it almost every day,
layer upon layer,
day after day, 
getting closer, yet
always one day away...

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Going to the moon. 
A noble undertaking 
Rockets are in flight 

Ready for lift off
Rockets engines Roaring load
Vibrant flames ignite

Rockets pierce the clouds 
Stars twinkle in darkened skies
Endless wonders shine
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The " Airhead "  Spaceship  was  starting .

The  Astronaut " Bimbo "  departing .

She  really  looked  cute

In  her  skin-tight  space  suit .

A definite  no-no , was  farting .



Inspired by Carolyn's ; out of this world , limerick contest .....

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The echoes of sound 
As I lift off my bed
Something like whispers
Of a dream unspent
The vibrations of what’s to come
And the knocking of what’s left
I have not yet ended my cycle
But something woke me
And led me to sit upright
With memories of nothingness
Wallowing in my head...

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Wings monger air.
A host of defrocked preachers
buckle and swag.
Mobs clique and crowd in clusters.
Grackles, 
skip, jump, and plunder on.

The birds pilfer, promenade,
scrum, pluck,
lift off swearing 
in an avian Yiddish.

Heaven is rocked
by their thimble-sized storms....

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Slip, slip, trip, and fall --> down that path of pain and betrayal - stall
until time is almost out,
then bing--bang--boom
dance until the world thinks you're happy
and turns the other way...
Ten, nine, eight...lift off:
slip, slip, trip (your worth is so small) --> down the rabbit hole you fall....

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When will the fog
lift off the bay

When will the sun 
scorch it away

Mind dank in darkness

     Black hole
                  so black
                                falling
                                falling
ever deeper

a veil looms
where joy
once existed.

Oh
for this weighty 
fog be lifted....

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Leave it all behind you
As you dash away
Don't look back
As you make your escape
The wind whips around you
Your worries try to hold you down
But you keep running faster 
'Till your feet lift off the ground
And you fly
High above the ocean
Way beyond the stars
A place where fear melts away
A place where dreams are...

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rOCKRt  BLAST OFF
                             By James Edward Lee Sr.
 rOCKEt    BLAST OFF
by James Edward Lee Sr.

Ten
Nine, eight,
Seven, six,
Five, four, three, two,
One...We have lift off.
"Houston, WE HAVE-
A PROBLEM,
SYSTEMS
DOWN"

"WE
HAVE A
PROB SIGHTING.
DYNASTIC SHOWN
COMPUER
HARDDRIVE
CRASH"

12/06/17...

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Your walk brings a crisis
reaching a river awfully wide
can't jump this you say
wish I'd taken that ride

Too late for that now
must find faith to lift
myself to the other side
glad it's not a cliff

Well let's go for it
first before jump must pray
Jesus did walk on water
but I'm made of clay

Up you go over water
film froze oh you rotter!...

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We wandered
into the realm of the bluebells
that dwell in the flood plain
after the spring rains.

Carefully 
we stepped 
through the blue kingdom
along the streams.

We could not hear
the tiny bells, 
ringing with mirth.

But we saw
the great heron lift off
toward the river,
his silent blue winged shadow
gliding over the flowers.

4/1/2017...

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Why art thou barren oh land?
Why art thou desolate dry and weary land?

When will your fruitfulness be accomplished?
Arise and lift off the curse bestowed on thee and thy inhabitants

Loose thyself from everything that holds the captive
Let thy land be cultivated and let thy tree grow on thy lands

Let green leaves flourish all over thy lands

And let every part of you be fruitful...

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How many angles have you seen today,
maybe just one, in your busy day.

How many miracles have you witnessed today,
maybe just one, did you remember to pray.

How many burdens did you lift off someone,
maybe just one, or did you just turn, and run.

How many tears did you dry for someone,
please don't tell me, no,  not one.

How many people did you tell about Jesus,
maybe you thought, you needed a reason....

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I am leaping 
Bounding
Running
Sprinting
Hurling myself towards the end of the runway
They say I’m moving too fast
That I need to slow down to see the sights
To experience life
To savor the moment
But I can’t.
I can’t slow down
Because I am 
Bounding
Running
Sprinting
Hurling myself towards the end of the runway
So that eventually
In a puff of smoke
Before you even know it
I will lift off
And I will 
Begin 
To 
Fly....

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Green bark a prism creates,
Feel the pull of earth, you must.

Rotates, a slime of endless hates,
Can hold me not, this world’s crust.

Friendship’s ties, isolation Deflates,
Succumbs, my spaceship, to bitter rust.

Mist, my soul forever permeates,
Lift-off, booms the rocket’s thrust.

My spirit when light returns, elates,
Swamps swell, swallowed hope’s swirling dust.

Trapped, I am, until student from fate
Arrives to learn; Cloud City or bust....

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