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Open Poetry #36

Flying Into Dover

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2005-10-27 08:02 AM

A black coat, with a hangman's hood
Is filled with moth and mouse holes-
Of street-light, sealed beams
And tarmac designates- the city
Stirs awake, just before dawn-
Yawning at hints, that near is day.

Four am, long flight; below
A kitchen light tears another gape.
A mother stirs from restless sleep
To greet in tears, the coming of the plane...

She bears a cargo also,
Not cold-solids, but fluids
Of human sadness: out of balance,
Unlike the plane
She is overburdened,
Her spirit feathers shattered-
As forever she will drag
A maimed and useless wing;
Grounded-overburdened
By the unliftable weight
Of a thousand broken dreams.

The dark wrap is now in shreds,
Torn to yellow ribbons by daylight-
The plane, unloaded, realights-
Going east on another, mission flight,
To make more sad returns disguised
By darkness-cloaked beneath
The black death-hood
Of a different night.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2005-10-27 08:19 AM

So...that is where
the pink contrail led
from yestermorn's light
overhead...

I had wondered
where it might have
been headed...

now I know.

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

2 posted 2005-10-27 09:32 AM

May her spirit feathers mend and lift her high into a sunlit sky of dreams to be realized.

An engaging write!

Linda

froggy
Senior Member

since 2003-06-23

Posts 1893
Michigan

3 posted 2005-10-31 10:57 PM

Beautiful write Ford.
See you Saturday.

:-)

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

4 posted 2005-11-01 12:07 PM

Oh my goodness! Ford, you should put a hankie alert on this one. I really admire your writing.

....jo

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

5 posted 2005-11-01 08:08 AM

Thank you all for reading and the replies...

This was written on the day that the 2000th soldier was killed in Iraq..well shortly before...That awful figure promted this from me...

Sorry about that Jo, I should have put out the hanky alert...

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