Short Takeoff Poems

cold
windblown
down feathers
dot the forming
ice...

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blue broken eggshells 
six wings ready for takeoff 
first flight rough landings...

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meteors shower
underneath the fierce boulder 
the fireflies takeoff

December-07-2019...

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once a pilot from london

at takeoff chewed an onion

but when he would speak

the flight crews would freak

now he just drinks a bourbon....

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A-n aeroplane sounds, 
E-ngines are loud in takeoff, 
M-aking the ears pop. 


Topic: Birthday of Aiza E. Mamba (March 4)
Form: Acrostic Haiku...

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E-ven a pilot 
F-ears the heights above the clouds, 
G-lad though tto takeoff.

Topic: Birthday of Emilie F. Garcia (March 23) 
Form: Acrostic Senryu...

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etched in minds own eye
                                   crane outstretching wing span - and
                                                ready for takeoff...

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This is your month your time to shine
Takeoff with happiness and leave the hate behind 
Its fall but I hope you don't fall 
Live life make your own call 
Party all in all but don't forget to give god time...

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"The Faster Takeoff!....The Truth Or The Lie?"

                                                        

                                                       (WTA-IV)
                                                           2016...

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Turbulent takeoff, tension thick
Tongue-tied terror, toxic trip
Tropical tornado tempestuous threat
Timbuktu touchdown, tomorrow Tibet.




Begin with a letter
T is letter chosen
Sponsored 
by:
Angela Tune 
02/07/2022...

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Friendships sometimes do takeofff
Remaining friends from year to year
Influenced by love’s stimulI
Ever changes each the other’s life.
Never far away they’ll remainn
Devoted, with your problems fixed,
Survive, remain forever friends....

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The planes were lined up in a queue,
A reminder of something I knew.
     They awaited permission
      Like at intermission 
In theaters outside of the loo.

One by one each one skyward immersed
As the rest inched up closer to first
     But like women in line
     Still not given the sign
There were tempers (and bladders!) to burst....

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J-ust fly like an aeroplane, 
A-scending into the cloud; 
Y-earn to reach the zenith, 
S-oar high above the crowd. 
O-nce you fly like an aeroplane, people watch your rapid rise; 
N-othing can stop your takeoff before the gazers' eyes. 

C-ome into the point of departure, 
L-eap from the concrete lane; 
I-n the morn of February tenth, 
M-ay you fly like an 
A-eroplane....

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Bicycle man ride, ride fast
I see the wings spreading
increase the speed geometrically
as you reason arithmetically
you are about to fly into air
the bicycle is on takeoff lane
haste, never look up, but your feet
blind passengers you have
deaf and dump surely they are 
fans you have applaud anything
and the wind accompanying you
will bear witness in detail
if you finish the flight
then land safely...

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The mission is crazy
Will we come out alive? 
The movements are dangerous 
Load up lets go

Hop in the back 
Gear ready to go
Put down your nods
That’s when you show

You can’t be stopped 
You can’t be beat 
Tonight’s the night 
Where no match you’ll meet

Infantry does it 
When no one else can
We all go in
Every time with a plan

We take out our target
We index our men
Takeoff in the air
Then get ready again...

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Let's write some songs together
I don't mean musically
Although it's music that we'll make
It's for no one to see
Tune up the guitar strings
Dynamics hard and soft
Ready now for takeoff 
I'll check the winds aloft 

Searching for a headwind
We won't fly very fast
With this we need to take our time
Make every moment last
Counting in now, 1-2-3
It's time for us to go
The bluebird and her troubador
Songs long and deep, and slow


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The Racetrack 

   A momentous and thrilling place 
   where people lose their pace 
   looking through the columns of the racing form.

  They seem to be cheerful 
  when they hear of their horse name Fearful 
  getting into position with Takeoff.

  The time has come and the bell has rung
  and off with a speeding start
  around on the first lap and straight for home 
  The people are shouting for Fearful to come home!

  Submitted by:
  Louis Saraceno...

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Roll out
Anywhere
Circling the room
Maybe a stop in Chicago
A good night sleep going left and right 
Hard to sleep tight
All happening at night side to side
One could find themselves sitting at the front door
Rolling away twist and turn soar
Sounds more like a dance
A roll away bed doesn’t stop
Moving front and back
Next morning hard to keep of the rolling track
It’s a wonder that the rolling bed doesn’t eject
Let me roll back on that
It’s a set off
Roll out and on
Buckle up
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Fear
of
flying—
facing fear
he boarded the plane
which some minutes after takeoff
violently shook and then plummeted toward earth—
him being sad, not over his impending death, but having just won the lottery




February 29, 2020
F G I irony
Brian Strand, sponsor

The last line of 21 syllables will appear as more than one line on mobile devices and smaller screens, but it actually fits on one line on larger screens.  Ah, the Romanesque broccoli spirals of the fibonacci sequence!...

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