(Free Photo – photographer Frank Cone. Image description: A bald eagle takes flight – wings wide – soaring.)
Heavenly lift
Aloft
What was it like
To be given the command to
Fill
The air?
To skim seam
To Seam
On the heights?
…Treating wind as water?
To have winged sails
And feet meant for nobly nimbly
Landing
Not for walking
To hop as if even touching the Earth
Was to be understood
As an infrequent thing
For you
Not your prime intent
To be covered
With layers meant for breath
And breeze
Your whole frame
Set for sailing
Heavenly Lift
Your eyes made for the horizon
You: Cutting through time and space
What is it like..
To daily – “slip the bonds of earth”
To be copied by inventors
(Inventing nothing!)
To achieve what you were already given
To be watched and wondered at
As you dive, float and soar
What is it like
To
Fly?
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(“To slip the surly bonds of earth”- is a line from a speech given by former US President Ronald Reagan. The speech itself referenced lines from a poem titled “High Flight” – written by airman and poet – John Gillespie Magee Jr.)
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