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In this post, we gather together some of the finest poems about flying and flight, taking in everything from aeroplanes to hawks to kestrels to nightingales to … poets themselves, attempting to fly free from the bounds and restrictions of the Earth.
Flying can represent a release from the constraints of gravity, and poets have used this image to express various emotions. Some poems about flying focus on the physical experience of flight, describing the sensation of being lifted into the air and the exhilaration of soaring through the sky.
This is the terminal, the break. Beyond this point, on lines of air, You take the way that you must take; And I remain in light and stare—. In light, and nothing else, awake. Yvor Winters, “At the San Francisco Airport” from The Selected Poems of Yvor Winters, edited by R. L. Barth.
Some San Francisco Poems: Sections 1-4. By George Oppen. 1. Moving over the hills, crossing the irrigation. canals perfect and profuse in the mountains the. streams of women and men walking under the high-. tension wires over the brown hills. in the multiple world of the fly ’ s. multiple eye the songs they go to hear on.
22 maj 2020 · Poetry has a way of getting to the indiscernible truth of a subject and these poems written by famous writers and poets, many of which were integral to the community of San Francisco around the turn of the 19th century, do just that. Some of the poems feature local landmarks belonging to the city, while others include the still ever-present ...
These 10 short poems capture the essence of flight, reflecting on its freedom, beauty, and the boundless horizons it represents. Each poem, crafted in simple yet evocative language, takes you on a journey above the clouds and into the realm of dreams.
Lines Written Near San Francisco. By Louis Simpson. I wake and feel the city trembling. Yes, there is something unsettled in the air. And the earth is uncertain. And so it was for the tenor Caruso. He couldn’t sleep—you know how the ovation. Rings in your ears, and you re-sing your part. And then the ceiling trembled.
