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Poems about Flight and Flying

These are poems about flight, poems about flying, poems about flights of fancy, and poems about things that fly like planes, jets, kites, leaves, butterflies, birds and bees...

Flight
by Michael R. Burch

It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...

Originally published by Hibiscus (India)

Learning to Fly
by Michael R. Burch

We are learning to fly
every day...

learning to fly—
away, away...

English translation of "To the boy Elis" by Georg Trakl

This is my modern English translation of the poem "To the boy Elis" by Georg Trakl.

These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I have written three poems ‘for’ him and one poem ‘after’ him …

Myth
by Michael R. Burch

after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas

Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.

Poems about Birds

These are poems about birds such as herons, cranes, gulls, geese and anhingas.

How Long the Night

This is my translation of one of the oldest rhyming poems in the English language: the Middle English poem "How Long the Night" which dates to the early 13th century and appears to predate Geoffrey Chaucer.

After Hearing the Rain

wet
with the dew
of a heavy rain—
the scent of ozone
lingering still

          *

a bird cries
somewhere in a nest—
her shattered child

          *

the gate has opened—
I walk through
looking for salvation

          *

these are the souls
who wander
the desolate streets—
I search their eyes
they do not see

Carry Me Home

rays melt
into the blue light
of another heaven

        *

wind washed
water melts anew
on the blue horizon

        *

birds
of another day
have joined
for morning prayers

        *

looking east
the pages turn
to the wind
where all the blind
begin to see

        *

jigsaw night
among the red and blue—
once more I'm

Here Come The Wild Birds Again - A Poem For Painters & Poets

for Barnett Newman, Abstract Expressionist Painter,
Cy Twomby, Sculptor/Painter, & Frank O'Hara, American

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