Member Poem

 
 
            What wonder! - In the arcs described by wings
            Aloft and floating on the fair spring air.
            In graceful glides, parabolas of dare
            Defying, in ascent, all earthy things.
            Blue light this, that arises o'er their sails,
            To waves whose crests on gentle billows soar
            Across this sea unshadow’d by a shore,
            Undaunted by the shifts of tides or gales.
 
            Gravity, your pull has no attraction
            For such as these that blithely dream; no care
            For this, your claim to men. We stand and stare
            Caught in circling dreams and lissome actions...
            What wonder!: Freedom's birth observ’d in flight
            And named in timeless crafts of wind and light.