Falls And Flights
From the sky to the land,
It’s so painful!
First thought:
Enough!
It’s the last flight!
But then again
we look at the sky
and wish to fly.
This is our human nature.
We forget about danger
and again look for adventure.
We are strange, strong and weak,
something more we seek.
As only the wounds heal
we again feel to fly
up to the sky,
surprising God with our wish
that flourish and vanish.
We believe only in a good dream
after so many falls and anguish.
We have not enough life,
we have not enough sky,
we have not enough time, and it flies.
Thousand times we make new tries
and…after all
start from the very beginning,
looking for a new sporting.
This is the rotation of life:
falls and flights,
up to the end
my dearest friend.
Larisa R (Odessa, Ukraine)
<Deleted User> (7789)
Thu 9th Sep 2010 16:55
Hi Larisa
it’s not a deal,
as we again feel to fly
these lines don't sound like conversational English - in other words, English people wouldn't use those exact words, but of course poetry doesn't have to be conversational or exactly as a phrase would normally be written. With the same point in mind, I'm not sure whether you would ever see 'anguishes' - it's usually just 'anguish' even when its plural. But again the rules of normal language can be broken in poetry!
I enjoyed the poem and certainly I had no problem in understanding any of the lines in it!