Her dampest flight
AMG 1980 (Lagos)
Something good is sometimes hideous
A plight I sought roughly unhindered
Seeking escapades, craving headstone
For, I felt so impaired and emptied
And this egregious night could not mop,
Away with this mediocre hoary bod
So I joined and soar and raced the clouds
Telling folklores, fairy tales - unheard-of
Belittling the cloak of the mighty heaven
Enchanted, I thus seek and fear
Volution! Solution! evolution
But I vote volition against my flock
In hysteria, in hoodoo
For a distance that killed my voodoo
Like some fictitious foods in a distant igloo
My gallivant wit needs a soothing need
This aching soma is now a needy senile gull
Halt comrades! I need to slurp and lull
Soliloquizing, I heard 'Hey quirky, you pecking?'
Asked a spooky monkey, whistling and swinging
Lie! lie! I won't heed your delirous hunt
Flitting back to when sturdy wax unsteadily
When conscious conscience battles the williwaw
Next, my thoughts rejig to a celestial chorus
Bah bah bah, Blah blah blah
I sang, I swayed, then sank
Strayed in this quest as I finally perched on him
A forlorn wisdom hidden in a sagely hood
(An epic acumen veiled beneath sacred woods)
And away flew woe and my doomed mood
I saw. I frank, then shrank
Baby sucks mother’s breast from the back
And I cranked
As a house of horror became my coveted realm
Why then, this troubled my bank of tears
While bluffing and blinking, I blanked
'Let this emptiness come with hooting joy
In lieu of envies which heavily bred this forte'
Taught, tonight, to me, by my heroic lone monk
In secret
In yoga
In India
About this poem
A monstrous old bird, little gull, left her migrating flock to feed and later got lost. Finally she found herself in the forest house of an aged monk in India
Font size:
Written on April 18, 2021
Submitted by gabrabimbola on March 18, 2022
Modified by gabrabimbola on March 18, 2022
- 1:27 min read
- 26 Views
Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABX CXB XXD XDX BEE CFF GGX FXA XHX XXX HXI XXI XXX XJJ |
---|---|
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,568 |
Words | 290 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Translation
Find a translation for this poem in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Her dampest flight" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 21 May 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem/122735/her-dampest-flight>.
Discuss the poem Her dampest flight with the community...
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In