Climbout Sunsets

Audio Recordings, Flight / May 26, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

John Gillespie Magee
slipped the surly bonds of earth
reached out and touched the face of God

Planes are bigger and faster now
I in my Aero Commander
commander of the air

Climbing at dusk have set the sun
on the lip of the world
and held it there

Have rode the Concorde
faster than the speed of sound
and faster than the earth goes round
that can lift it up where it went down

And there are times I’d best the lark
to try to hold or yet turn back
baby’s smiles and love’s first spark

I think Magee, the reverence would see
as we all fight the dying of the light
and try to touch the Sistine finger
a little longer before night

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1 thoughts on “Climbout Sunsets”

Sharon May 26, 2019 at 9:31 am

Enjoyed the voice of your poem at sunrise…
ever headed toward sunset…
a bright and lovely gift

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