His poems were kites that reached such heights,
nary a soul could see them.
Their shapes were eagles, swallows, seagulls,
dragonflies. I’ll free them,
he thought, let go their strings! “Hello,”
they said to every bird
that flew nearby. (They sure weren’t shy.)
Pretty soon the word
about those soaring poems were pouring
from mouth to ear worldwide.
Binoculars weren’t aimed at stars
but verses that could glide —
until last spring, when every string
attached to every poem
was snatched like a note from a sparrow’s throat,
and all the kites came home.
Now everyone, in April sun,
could closely scrutinize
those gaudy toys full of the noise
of words that reached the skies.
What did they say about the jay,
the red-tailed hawk, the swift?
Not much. “The breeze was bracing. Please,”
they cried, “give us a lift!”
The kite-poems screamed, yet the people seemed
as clueless as the flowers
were of the bees, or as the trees
were of the vernal showers.
But soon he played again and made
more magic kites; but these
he made less showy (for when it’s snowy).
Though fearing they would freeze,
he let them blow out toward the snow
that overspreads K2
or Everest. If they’re suppressed?
He’ll just begin anew.
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Dear Poeter, My mind and
Dear Poeter, My mind and this poem fly like a kite in the sky. Thoughts of life ending on an endless path are concentrated, and there the thorns and flowers dream as the wind blows away. But, they are languages that are incomprehensible to man. The twists and turns of life are contained within the thought as the mind stirs up a lost memory and finds something in the diary one day. They come to mind as illusions when people argue that I saw a blue cat and tell it to build. But the storage of old memories for an incomprehensible narrative of something takes us somewhere in the call beyond death. Your poem makes me stand unarmed outside of a thought and puts medicine into the tears of my eyes and the smiles of my wounds. This poem really impressed me. All The Best My Dear Friend; Write More Congratulations
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