Short Liftoff Poems

Balerethon

A flying
Saucer
A baloney
Sandwich
Dancing
To
The
Tick
Of
Your
Clock
Alien
Stepping
Proudly
Gracefully
Through
The
Hoops
Of 
Brooklyn
Night
Morning
Liftoff
Leftoff
Dream...

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SANTA WISHES YOU A BLOOMING CHRISTMAS

Oh deer, did the night drone on and on,
the liftoff of a midnight clear.
Away from The Pole, he drinks a ton of beer,
and plants 100 flamingoes in each lawn.

12/27/2021...

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Phrases string together,
letters front to back

Birds of the same feather,
in each other’s tracks

Marching toward transcendence,
words reformed and strong

Flocking into unison
—flying into song

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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2015-05-20

Morning

This small fragment of my daily routine,
bathed in, drowned in coffee and cream.
When the animal inside my head awakes
my world rocks and rolls, quivers, quakes.
I love the morning, a rocket to the sun.
Launchpad, countdown, three, two, one,
zero, liftoff and another day’s begun.
I just wanna have…
…and I’m gonna have fun.
‘Nuff said!...

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Free Fall to Liftoff

for my father, Paul Ray Burch, Jr. 

I see the longing for departure gleam
in his still-keen eye, 
                                   and I understand his desire
to test this last wind, like those late autumn leaves
with nothing left to cling to ...

Keywords/Tags: autumn, winter, leaves, leaving, cling, clinging, wind, death, flight, fly, flying, transport, free fall, liftoff, departure, bare, barren, leafless, skeletal, uplifting, heaven...

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