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...
Insect Haiku
These are insect haiku requested by Emma Burleigh for publication in her upcoming book Earth Color ...
While a cicada
sings softly
a single leaf falls ...
—Issa, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
