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vogelfrei

Posted: May 13th, 2005, 11:09 am
by panta rhei
vogelfrei



to be air or an
ashen streak of flight
or be silt:

i am outlawed,
free as a bird.

i am 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 a nomad of breath
with a rustling in his throat
while the sky
stands still.

flue ash and freedom
are hard to swallow.

Posted: May 13th, 2005, 11:25 am
by judih
flapped by a wing
feathered boa trail
sky writing with soul

Posted: May 13th, 2005, 12:32 pm
by mousey1
Ah, Panta.....what a picture! What a picture you paint!!!!!!!


(forgive me, I couldn't resist adding my daub of gray)

And as I flew

I realized

I had no wings

The freefall

Was glorious

Heart pounding

Soul wrenching

Till I hit the ground

Posted: May 13th, 2005, 1:15 pm
by panta rhei
and while i fell
all of a sudden
earth
grew giant wings

i fell
into my own
flight

and now i am flying

Posted: May 13th, 2005, 2:36 pm
by panta rhei

Posted: May 13th, 2005, 2:38 pm
by panta rhei
sometimes, it looks like this - and you still fall:

Image

http://www.yannarthusbertrand.com/yann2 ... ais=France

Posted: May 13th, 2005, 2:40 pm
by panta rhei
red carpet zing treatment
roll it out
freefallin zing
cushions my mind
judih, jamming aMayZingly

Image

http://www.yannarthusbertrand.com/yann2 ... ais=France

Posted: May 14th, 2005, 7:54 pm
by mousey1
If earth grew wings

It would fly away

Leaving man

To pollute

The void