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Taking Off

Stephen Colley

frantic wing
 cutting wind
 chilling brow
 blurring ground
 shortening runway

shrinking shadow
 straining frame
 torturing heart
 failing spirit
 faltering faltering

upward springing!
 existence spanned
 in one bright arc
 a leaping rainbow
 soaring soaring soaring

o may I live
 thus slicing air
 and when my time comes
 so may I die
 with whole heart
 still springing upward
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXXXX BXCXA AXXBA XXXXCX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 356
Words 56
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 6
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