AuthorsDen.com   Join | Login    
Where Authors and Readers come together!

SIGNED BOOKS    AUTHORS    BOOKS    SAMPLE CHAPTERS    AUDIOBOOKS    eBOOKS    STORIES    ARTICLES    POETRY    BLOGS    NEWS    VIDEOS    SUCCESS    TESTIMONIALS

Featured Authors:  Patricia Sims, iNeenah Davis-Wilson, iMORGAN ST. JAMES, iJoshua Su, iChristine Boyce, iChristina Neely, iJames Harvey, iCharles Keller, iGlen Schulz, iDarryl Jenkins, i

  Home > Biography > Poetry        Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry        Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     

Kathleen A Keena

 Follow Me  

· Contact Me
· Books
· Articles
· Poetry
· Stories
· Messages
· 75 Titles
· 72 Reviews
· Save to My Library
· Share with Friends!
·
Member Since: Oct, 2004

Kathleen A Keena, click here to update your pages on AuthorsDen!


Books by
Kathleen A Keena







See all Books
by Kathleen A Keena



To Fly
by Kathleen A Keena → (All Poetry by Kathleen A Keena)
Saturday, January 17, 2026    Rated "PG" by the Author.
Share   Print  Save   Follow   Share on Facebook

to my brother John

I was born to fly

since I was a boy,

looking up at the sky

when a plane flew by.

I imagined I was that plane

unfettered, in the atmosphere,

while the cluttered ground

of school books, cars, 

and rules, loud sounds 

disappeared.

 

Above it all,

the shifting sky, 

the gleam of water

on a lake, 

the farmer's fields, 

geometrically spaced.

 

Atmospheric space,

the swish and hum of

my tiny plane

traveling beyond 

grounded sound.

 

People below, 

specks of color, moving forms.

Waving trees, waving grass, 

waving forests 

flying past.

 

 

 

 

 


Kathleen A Keena

Want to review or comment on this poem?


Need a FREE Reader Membership?


 Reviews of "To Fly"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on January 19, 2026
My destiny, too. So glad you got to. I didn't fly until I got my first zero pressure van to drive from my electric wheelchair with just my hands and a head button for miscellaneous actions.

Driving was like flying because the vehicle seemed to magically float in the direction and speed that I wanted it. I suppose if I had enough money I could have gotten a small plane with those kinds of controls in it.

In the meantime, whenever I flew, I tried to get a window seat and spent most of my time looking out the window except went over oceans or clouds.

Ron

Reviewed by Mystic Rose
Reviewed on January 17, 2026
It must be a special feeling to be up there looking down, very well penned, great poem Kathleen


New Poetry by Kathleen A Keena
Popular Poetry (Biography)
  1.  Thomas Chickenbone
  2.  I knew It was You
  3.  A Eulogy
  4.  I Dreamed Of Mommy Last Night
  5.  A Jack Of All Trades
  6.  Happy Father's Day, Sweet Daddy!
  7.  A Head Of Cabbage
  8.  My New Fur Babies
  9.  My New Line of Jewelry
  10.  Upper Room Pentecost
  11.  Hope for a Better Tomorrow...
  12.  On Your Retirement
  13.  Scout's Honor
  14.  When Love Begins
  15.  A jolly good fellow
  16.  Nothing
  17.  Joy Returneth!
  18.  Collage para Luis García-Abrines Calvo
  19.  Sky Rider
  20.  As if by Magic...
Free Book Review Program
Select a book to read and review today!

UNTIED LACES by Miller Caldwell

An Amazing Autobiography; He confronted Usama bin Laden 2006 and brought an African Dictator to tears 2002  
Member BookAds

Not So Long Ago by BIRENDRA TANDAN

Growing up in Mid twentieth century India. The Times , way of life, customs and simple but colorful society  
Member BookAds

Abducted Alien: A True Story of My Life and My Experience with United by Chris Belec-Joanet-Joannette

AVAILABLE TODAY 2012! PRESS RELEASE, June 1, 2009 A True Story of My Life and My Experience with United States Immigration I was an Abducted Alien by Department of Homeland Security... Startling memoir is about a woman  
Member BookAds