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To Fly
by Kathleen A Keena → (All Poetry by Kathleen A Keena)
Saturday, January 17, 2026    Rated "PG" by the Author.
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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.

 

 

 

 

 


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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


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