Not-Yet-Missed Flight
Me, with fellow flyers. Guess who’s who? (Ha!)
Not-Yet-Missed Flight
“The knack of flying is throwing yourself at the ground and missing.”
Douglas Adams
I’ve long proved capable
of missing much–
deadlines, typos, you,
a last best chance,
the writing-on-the-wall dance–that diagram
of there
to somewhere
that didn’t look like here–
Yet, here
is where I am,
with only my feet (maybe)
scraping ground, my head increasingly shy
of six feet above–
Could be worse.
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Another 55 for Kerry O’Connor’s prompt on Real Toads to write a 55 word poem, using a quote from “Brainy Quotes.”
PS – I think I was about 5’6″ and a half or so at max; not sure now! Pic is mine, all rights reserved.
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ManicDDaily 
June 7, 2015 at 1:32 pm
What wisdom in this.. 6 feet above is so much more like flying than the fall to six feet under.
June 7, 2015 at 1:52 pm
I love your elephants! At 5’3, I am under-tall too.
🙂
June 7, 2015 at 3:38 pm
I loved this.. its so open.. so endearing.. calling out to the reader.. perhaps extending out a hand.. in mutual understanding..!
Beautifully penned 🙂
Lots of love,
Sanaa
June 7, 2015 at 3:51 pm
At least it is six feet in the right direction, you know. Ha.
I would love to fly – not like superman, but with wings like a bird.
June 7, 2015 at 4:40 pm
Wonderful and yes, glad to be above ground 🙂
June 7, 2015 at 7:25 pm
I love this!
June 7, 2015 at 7:42 pm
Thanks, MZ. k.
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:25 PM, ManicDDaily wrote:
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June 8, 2015 at 5:44 am
I actually was six feet tall once. Now I’m 5-11. Flying elephants are always a good thing, though I can’t claim to be able to pick one out from the others.
June 8, 2015 at 6:28 am
No, that was a joke. Terrific to be so tall! k.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 6:44 AM, ManicDDaily wrote:
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June 8, 2015 at 3:14 pm
55 is a good form for you ~
June 8, 2015 at 4:09 pm
Ha. Thanks so much, M. The G-man was so terrific. I miss him. k.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:14 PM, ManicDDaily wrote:
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June 10, 2015 at 7:38 am
The whimsy of flying elephants and the quandaries of typos and deadlines and all the tangled threads of living somehow work well together, a sense of flinging oneself at both in faith that the right thing will happen–a delightful 55, k. The G-Man would have loved it.