airplaneflight



Swirling winter plains
Fly below mighty wings;
Wedded to the sky.
This sky swoons for my eyes,
The clouds are fettered to the earth,
But I have escaped.
I am no longer mothered by the air of the world, but set to fend for myself,
To find a residence in an alien landscape.
The rarity of a moment above
All my fellow men and women
Assigns a certain value to every action; mundane yet novel.
They cannot be mundane because they are no longer accomplished in a world.  
Infinity travels sound and screams as if it heard a sound.
I hear the sound.
Did it merely travel round
To collide with its past self?

About this poem

I scribbled this poem two hours into an airplane flight to San Francisco, in a letter to my boyfriend. I felt it captured the essence of my fondness for flying. There is an anticipation associated with travel which is matched with a distance from everyone going about their daily tasks below which I am very fond of.

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Written on February 09, 2022

Submitted by abjb0505 on March 02, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMMMG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 608
Words 126
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

Abigail Jane Buffington

My name is Abigail Buffington and I am a student. I love languages, especially Latin, French, and Spanish and I'm a bit of a WW2 history buff. Poetry is something I believe enriches life, unnecessary for my survival, yet necessary for my joy. I write about everything, and my goal is to extract beauty from subjects, events, and relationships unnoticed and taken for granted. more…

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