Fly on
Fly away
With a soothing song
In my soul
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Fly on
Fly away
Into my castle
In the sky
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Sailing through the clouds
Where I am King
Nothing hurts me
I get to sing
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Sing a song
Where I am love
Up in the sky
With the dove
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Blackbird
Sail away
Back home
Where I'm safe
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Fly on home
Fly on home
Fly on... Home
About the Creator
Rick Henry Christopher
Writing is a distraction to fulfill my need for intellectual stimulus, emotional release, and soothing the bruises of the day.
The shattered pieces of life will not discourage me.
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I promise her. I'd do anything for her. She's my mom. Even as Lanie and Deanna are flying home, Mom is scrappy fighting dying. She lays too still in that too-big bed with all the toasty white hospital blankets, in the south tower, at the broad end of a long slow-turning corner that delivers me again to her private room with the view she can't see through, with the beeping that tells us nothing new, and all these ice chips she can't swallow, and a flood of well-intentioned nurses who cannot do a damned thing all the same.
By Christy Munson4 days ago in Fiction
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This was so good. Of course you had me at the title Blackbird is my favorite Beatles song. Great prose!
Oh, the freedom and thrill to fly! We’ve all wanted to do this…and feel the wind if we had wings to capture that exhilaration! You captured this wonderful wish in your poem, Rick!
Nice! Thank you💕
i really liked this, often feel like flying away. I find that a flight someplace else such as the sky, makes home feel more comfortable. Not sure my interpretation was yours, but I've been listening to freebird, Right where I am at today
Beautiful poem! To me it suggests the feeling of finally finding peace and freedom from pain and suffering.
Loving your inspirational poem!!!
Love the sense of liberation that your poem made me feel. Beautiful poem!
I love it! It's deeper than it's presented. :)
Peaceful, calm, and relaxing poem emoting freedom. Excellent poem Rick.
Simply Beautiful!!!!
This is wonderful, immediately brought the Beatles song to mind...What a lovely way to start a Thursday
This feels like freedom. Beautiful piece.
Excellent words and I love the sparse format, really draws you in