Australian Poetry: Remembering Jonathan Livingston - "The seagull who flies high lives high"
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BE JONATHAN LIVINGSTON
BE A SEAGULL
BE
Take the breath
Of the wings of morning
Lift your eyes
To the canyons
Of the skies
And fly!
First Journey
Morning breath
Trembling
Blurring
Hungering
Speed
Speed is power
Tumbling
Spinning
Senseless
Non
Sense
Waking
Waking
Waking in moonlight
On dark
Silvered
Waters
Journeys
The years hum by
Softly glowing with stars and promises
Angers and fears slowly drown
In the waters of Lethe
And flight
Is the inner longing for
Perfection
Wings
Dreaming of shimmering wings
Dreaming of being
Wings
Loneness
Inner earth
Inner time
Inner sky
Inner heaven
Being
Is the art of flying
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The book, the music, the visuals - I never tire of them. They are always worth a revisit. I tried to capture the inner feeling in my poem.
Great thoughts!
I just found out that you´re only here with us for 5 days!? Is this possible? I feel like you´ve been here for ages!! Thank you for sharing your hubs ;-)
Thanks funride! I really wasn't sure if people liked this! The rank was going up quickly but there were no comments! I was wondering if I was tampering with something a little too sacred!
I wish I could space the lines a little differently, but can't seem to get the edit tool to recognise my original copy and paste. I tried so many times then gave up!
I was deeply moved and uplifted by that treasure of a book. I love this celebration you put up, too!
Hehe, I have those copy paste problems too, and usually surrender.
Thank you, Gemma.
Kenny - Just thank you!
Smiles and Light
Just one word : WOW !!
Just one word : WOW !!
2 words! "Thank you!" lol
Smiles and Light
I just wasn't happy at all with the original presentationof this hub. The spacings were wrong! Even though in word document it looked one way, by the time the whole thing arrived here it just looked weird. I could not synthesise the two.
So I have started again and worked with the HubPage format, breaking the whole into capsules!
I think it looks and flows far more "atmospherically". Hope you like!
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frank 4 years ago
a masterpiece that will live through the annals of time