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To live
Under the open sky
Dreams unbounded
And hopes unfurled
Rippling
In the wind
Our spirits rise
Catching its current
And soar
Through time
And space
Across the land
Over the seas
Into the heavens
Our spirits soar
An aerial ballet
Of aspiration
And ambition
An ambassador
Of our life
To the stars.
Into sun swept skies
And harsher climes
Our spirits soar
Ever higher
Unbound by rooms
Or rules
Or guarantees
They roost
Only to rest
Beneath these skies
Our spirits root
Freedom and fulfillment
Partners to the land
And foundation
Of our great claim
Let lightning strike!
Let kingdom come!
We do not fear
Our spirits soar!
Copyright © 2001 K. S. Shain. All rights reserved.
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Don't Get Me Wrong
Thanks for your kind and thoughtful remarks. I'd love to have my work published but haven't had the time to chase down agents or publishers. Writing is only an avocation at present and has had to take a subordinate position to numerous other responsibilities. If you, or anyone else reading this blog, know anyone who would like to help this work find a broader audience, please let me know!
Cheers
Wow. You have written and done so much. Thanks for sharing. I shall be content with the posts I am priviledged to read here. I too do not seek formal publication. I have been quoted here and there. Your list of accomplishments is very interesting indeed. You are a very good writer, and your poetry here has been very much appreciated by me, and surely many others too.
Jen
**know thyself**
Always Writin'
Thanks for your interest in my work. Our Spirits Soar is part of a tryptych, the remaining portions of which I will post here soon. I mailed it to a friend early in 2001 who mistakenly published it later in the year as a 9/11 tribute piece, a misconception that I did nothing to correct. To date I have never received nor sought widespread publication, though my poem The Sail won an Editor's Choice poetry prize in 2003 and Broken Doorbells was a finalist in a songwriting contest in 1999. Pearl of the South placed 3rd in a poetry magazine contest. Sooner or later I will find the right editor or publisher who will assist in compiling and publishing whatever work can be deemed of interest to the public. Among my favorites: I Shall Be Me (the theme song for a movie script I wrote featuring the world's FIRST female Bob Dylan), The Ballad of Bennie Graham (a true story), Trumpets In The Valley (answer to Bob's Thunder On The Mountain), Two Lane Blacktop No Direction Home and I Always Wanted To Be A Songwriter. As for my "romantic" songs and poems, I've got buckets and buckets of the stuff around here somewhere...
But I can only share so much!
Eagles must fly
This is our motto at Coppin. I love your poem. The soaring heights. I thinks of hawks circling on the thermal updrafts of a clear warm day. Like this, our souls yearn to be free of their physical constraints. Have you published your poems? I mean, is there some book somewhere, where I might read more of them?
Jen
**know thyself**