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; 1st or 3rd 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
Stine Writing 
Perfect for this time around the world.
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I love bats. The White Nose Syndrome (a fungus) is really doing a number on bats across the globe…
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sadly bats have been much maligned … very well written.
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Thank you
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a pleasure!
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I used to see bats where I live many years ago. Not anymore. Bats disease is spreading everywhere.
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Yes. My good friend is a wildlife rehabilitator and she said that raising baby bats is the best because they are super sweet. But if you ever touch a bat that has gotten hit by a car or something they have to kill it to check it for rabies. I had a friend once take in a bat to care for it and my rehab friend was besides herself knowing the threat of rabies and the laws around getting them tested.
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Sadly, whenever animals are to blame, we try our best to annihilate them. Thank you for this very poignant piece… it’s an exceptional work.
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Thank you so much
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Sad for there only to be one left 😦
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Yes, at least flying over my property! I don’t use pesticides or anything…
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It just needs a neighbour who’s a bit too free and easy with the chemicals and I suppose the fragile creatures look somewhere else if they can.
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Very tragic with themes of loss and death. It is very apt, as Grace said, of our world today. What a fantastic and innovative take on the theme of flying. If I recall, this is the first poem that utilizes bats for the prompt!
Great work, it’s heartbreaking and haunting in how it’s written.
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Thank you, Lucy. Bats were the first thing to come to my mind. It is such a shame they are all dying.
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A very timely one in our pandemic world. Thanks for joining in.
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I do worry about fighting for bats with this whole thing possibly originating due to bats, but they are still so beneficial to the environment, just not the palate.
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