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BigNasdy

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Poem for airplane enthusiasts
« on: April 01, 2008, 08:50:10 AM »



Flight is freedom in its purest form,
To dance with the clouds which follow a storm;
To roll and glide, to wheel and spin,
To feel the joy that swells within;
To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;
Then back to earth at the end of a day,
Released from the tensions which melted away.
Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest night;
Spare me your pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I’d do it again;
For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.

 See yall soon, ride, and fly safe....
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Morgan Buchanan

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Re: Poem for airplane enthusiasts
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2008, 09:01:15 AM »

With all respect, I think it was said better thusly....

High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
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BigNasdy

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Re: Poem for airplane enthusiasts
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2008, 09:17:13 AM »

very nice. :)
thanx
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Re: Poem for airplane enthusiasts
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2008, 05:40:17 PM »

 I must say flying is my first love motorcycling my second. If I could still fly I probably wouldn't be riding.
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Re: Poem for airplane enthusiasts
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2008, 03:34:55 PM »

If I could add one more for my Dad:

LIGHTNINGS IN THE SKY

Oh, Hedy Lamar is a beautiful gal, Madeline Carroll is too.

But you’ll find if you query a much different theory amongst any bomber crew
That the loveliest thing of which one can sing This side of the heavenly gates
Is no blonde or brunette of the Hollywood set
But an escort of P-38s

In all the days past when the tables were massed with glasses of scotch and champagne
It’s quite true that that sight was a thing to delight us intent on feeling no pain
But no longer the same nowadays in this game as we sail onto the missing state
Take your sparkling wine but always make mine
An escort of P-38s.

Byron, Shelley and Keats ran each other dead heats describing the views from the hills
Of the valleys in May where the winds gently sway an army of bright daffodils
Take your daffodils Byron, the wild flowers Shelley, yours is the myrtle, friend Keats
Just preserve me those cuties, all-American beauties
An escort of P-38s.

Sure we’re braver than hell on the ground all is well, in the air it’s a much different story
As we sweat out our track through the fighters and flak we’re willing to split up the glory
Well, they wouldn’t reject us so heaven protect us until all this shootin’ abates
Give us courage to fight ’em and another small item
An escort of P-38s.


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BigNasdy

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Re: Poem for airplane enthusiasts
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2008, 02:08:49 PM »

beautiful man!
God Bless ya Hangman
 anymore anyone??
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