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# How to Fly
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/how-to-fly/
- Published: 2025-12-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-01T00:35:27.000Z
- Description: A cemetery of abandoned plots, unfinished poems, stillborn compositions. Self-centered daffodils, forget-me-nots, a stichwort stichwork, shriveling ambitions,
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

A cemetery of abandoned plots,  
unfinished poems, stillborn compositions.  
Self-centered daffodils, forget-me-nots,  
a stichwort stichwork, shriveling ambitions,  
all swaying in a gentle autumn breeze.  
  
No storms here, those have long ago diminished,  
and vision bends along, with practiced ease:  
Why fight if you already know you're finished?  
Strike lightning! I demand. And thunder loud!  
Let headstones bathe in sharp, chromatic colors  
as sunshine penetrates the permacloud,  
a mourning dove takes off, a raven hollers…  
  
Demand… Or beg. Refuses to comply.  
Best learn to crawl... Forgotten how to fly.

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