Written for dversepoets: https://dversepoets.com/2020/07/28/poetics-flights-of-fancy/

• Pen a poem that is about FLYING/FLIGHT (NOT FLEEING)
• Take ONE or MORE of our natural winged phenomena – bird, bat, insect, seed, flying fish! (but NOT mythical creature with wings, NOT mechanical objects either)
• Your poem can be purely literal or mixed with metaphor or even allegory
• Write as subject or object; 1^st or 3^rd person
• Preferably use FREE VERSE (like Sandburg & Lawrence above) as that best suits the subject of flying!
• If you use any poem as source or inspiration, please cite the original in your post [click links to read above poems in full]

Bats at home

Once
there were seven creatures
black as night
flying in circles
clicking.
Now
there is one creature
black as night
flying in a circle
I cannot hear the clicking.
For bats disease spreads
quickly.

©2020 CBialczak Poetry