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Open Poetry #25

I Can Not Fly

Seraphine_CoB
Junior Member

since 2003-04-02

Posts 14
LONDON, UK

0 posted 2003-04-04 07:29 AM

My broken limbs were weather scarred,
My heart of paper, badly torn,
The wind it blew me far too hard,
My body, mind and soul were worn.

You spied me there, this broken thing-
You held and healed my lamest wing,
And patched the wounds with glue and paste,
Then threw away the other waste.

You pinned me on your coldest wall,
Admired your work, in detail fine-
Restored, complete and designate
Upon that space for all of time.

Unmoved again by hand or gale
I thought to feel the wind again-
I came undone- upheld my sail,
But no breeze and no flight came.

Though I am mended in most things
What good am I without the air,
To fill to lift me by the wings?
Without it I am dead and bare!

As pointless as a star that brings
No light or hope, what use am I?
You hold me down to earth with strings,
Yet without wind, I can not fly.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2003-04-04 09:17 AM

Though I am mended in most things
What good am I without the air,
To fill to lift me by the wings?
Without it I am dead and bare!

~*~

Aye, I know this feeling...
A good write, this...

Thank you Seraphine

Karilea - If I whisper, will you listen?...

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

2 posted 2003-04-05 12:39 PM

Seraphine,

This needs another ride on the bullet-train.

Maybe more will see it this time through.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2003-04-05 02:37 AM

do I know how this is? wow!

Sunnyone
Member Ascendant

since 2000-07-06

Posts 5334
Staffordshire, England

4 posted 2003-04-05 07:14 AM

Oh, I must say that this is the first I have read from you, and I am impressed!! Great thoughts...love can repair us, but it's only a good thing when we are allowed to fly free.....

Accept these small gifts from my gypsy heart ~~S~~

[This message has been edited by Sunnyone (04-05-2003 07:15 AM).]

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