Bird Man
- Lightning Rod
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Bird Man
I'm a bird man
my bones are hollow as flutes
light as air, my feather parachutes
I survive on velocity
exist on lift and glide
a proud descendent of dinosaurs
how the eons flied
only yesterday I was in the sea
now I'm on the moon
I fly the flight of destiny
over lake and over dune
I'm an owl, a dove, a peregrine
funky chicken, rockin' robin
I'm an albatross, an eagle,
ostrich, dodo, terradactyl
a gull, a sparrow, a lowly crow
sharp of eye, the things I know
I'm a bird man
I fly by the seat of my pants
I'm light as thought
my beak, my lance
I'm a bird man
look up, you'll see me
my bones are hollow as flutes
light as air, my feather parachutes
I survive on velocity
exist on lift and glide
a proud descendent of dinosaurs
how the eons flied
only yesterday I was in the sea
now I'm on the moon
I fly the flight of destiny
over lake and over dune
I'm an owl, a dove, a peregrine
funky chicken, rockin' robin
I'm an albatross, an eagle,
ostrich, dodo, terradactyl
a gull, a sparrow, a lowly crow
sharp of eye, the things I know
I'm a bird man
I fly by the seat of my pants
I'm light as thought
my beak, my lance
I'm a bird man
look up, you'll see me
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- panta rhei
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remnds me (in both subject and flow) of this one i wrote a few years ago:
vogelfrei
vogelfrei
(literally: free as bird; historically: outlawed, considered fair game)
to be air or an
ashen streak of flight
or be silt:
i am outlawed,
free as a bird.
i'm a scarecrow
made of doves,
i am my own flock
of feathers.
i am ragged,
i am windblown,
tied to field and sky,
and i fly.
and when cascades of brakish water
soak my wings, soak them down,
i am still flying, barely
scratching mud,
my tattered pinions not yet
brushing sludge
touching ground
the way my rack does.
i am quick
i am fleeting
i am swift
and dove and swallow,
a flitting vagabound
of hope,
a raggamuffin fowl fully fledged.
i am a tumbling nomad of breath
with a rustling in the throat
while the sky
stands still.
flue ash and freedom
are hard to swallow.
vogelfrei
vogelfrei
(literally: free as bird; historically: outlawed, considered fair game)
to be air or an
ashen streak of flight
or be silt:
i am outlawed,
free as a bird.
i'm a scarecrow
made of doves,
i am my own flock
of feathers.
i am ragged,
i am windblown,
tied to field and sky,
and i fly.
and when cascades of brakish water
soak my wings, soak them down,
i am still flying, barely
scratching mud,
my tattered pinions not yet
brushing sludge
touching ground
the way my rack does.
i am quick
i am fleeting
i am swift
and dove and swallow,
a flitting vagabound
of hope,
a raggamuffin fowl fully fledged.
i am a tumbling nomad of breath
with a rustling in the throat
while the sky
stands still.
flue ash and freedom
are hard to swallow.
- Lightning Rod
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panta rhei'ss vogelfrei poem
is proudly published in the Studio Eight anthology Infinite Tide
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is proudly published in the Studio Eight anthology Infinite Tide
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>> Ten Pages Preview -pdf file
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