Bird Man

Post by **Lightning Rod** » March 11th, 2009, 1:30 pm

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

Post by **mtmynd** » March 11th, 2009, 4:23 pm

right on, eLRod... nice write.

Post by **stilltrucking** » March 11th, 2009, 4:42 pm

well done

Post by **Nazz** » March 12th, 2009, 4:25 am

I always wanted to soar
with my feet firmly planted on earth,
aerodynamically correct at all times.
Wish me luck I guess.

Post by **SmileGRL** » March 18th, 2009, 2:04 pm

isn't it funny how people sometimes look just like the animal/creature they liken themselves to? but what if you choose more than one animal? that could be interesting.

Post by **panta rhei** » March 18th, 2009, 2:24 pm

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.

Post by **Lightning Rod** » March 18th, 2009, 2:33 pm

thank you all for your comments, it was just a flight of fancy

and panta, I'm soaring as I often do on your work. Perfect companion piece. Should you do the cut-up or should I?

Post by **panta rhei** » March 19th, 2009, 1:40 pm

ha! you do it this time. and next time, it'll happily be my turn!

Post by **Doreen Peri** » March 19th, 2009, 2:31 pm

panta rhei'ss vogelfrei poem

is proudly published in the Studio Eight anthology Infinite Tide

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>> Ten Pages Preview -pdf file

Post by **panta rhei** » March 19th, 2009, 2:35 pm

yes!!!

thanks, doreen.

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