international pixelstained technopeasant day

[ewein2412]

some flying stuff.

"Findo Gask."  It's on page 6 in the Dec. 2006 issue of Plane Talking, the newsletter of the Scottish Aero Club, which I edit (and in which I occasionally print anonymous stories)

 

                    To a French Aeroplane

 

Sweet Robin jolly Robin

Bravo Echo Tango Delta

when my lover takes us flying

in your cockpit's Perspex shelter

hold us harnessed, hit no hare

racing the runway unaware;

lift us lofty, land us softly

trusting to your small propeller.

Robin volant so gaudy tricked

as redbreast, wing us storm outstripped

to Alderney and Canterbury

Uffington, Cerne Abbas, Scilly

far as France, then stably homeward

where beneath Heathrow's umbrella

waits Maidenhead's familiar sward

at tail of trip, trim pretty ship

Bravo Echo Tango Delta.

Landing at Swansea

 

Bright haze and cracked macadam

and the heavy purr of the single engine;

O where are the poets' valleys,

the cloaking snow, the driving slag?

Here by the rattling chain link fence

before the Spitfire Diner, Wales is barbed wire,

parched grass, small wings tied down to concrete blocks.

O where are the singing mountains,

the greens of verse, the chains of history?

The salt wind off the Bristol Channel

squawks static, howls hollow

across the lips of empty plastic fuel cans:

Fool. All this sings anyway, in no strange land.

If anyone comments and I don't answer, it's cause I'm away till next week.

Comments

[sovay]

The salt wind off the Bristol Channel
squawks static, howls hollow
across the lips of empty plastic fuel cans:
Fool. All this sings anyway, in no strange land.

Prrrr.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeeeeee. Oh, it sings.

[sarahbethdurst.livejournal.com]

So great to see you at the Nebulas! Hope you had a safe trip home, and hope to see you again soon.

Lovely poems, by the way.

Best,
Sarah

[ewein2412]

hey! great to see you, too. Wonderful buzz and I *loved* your Voldemort comparison (as only a fellow-nominee possibly could).

Hey ho--Best wishes for next year! who knows what the future holds?

cheers, e