What inspired this poem?
I was having a particularly bad day at school (I cried), so I looked up at the sky, and I felt strangely comforted by it. I was thinking "ah, how beautiful!", so I decided to write about my second favourite flying type: Altaria (the first being Salamence). I hope you can feel the peace and joy of the poem, like it were a windy day. Enjoy!
Sky Song
A song
A song echoing through the sky
A performance, which the passers-by
Stop to hear
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I rise on my wings,
Every beat taking me closer to the glass sky,
The radiant sun which lights all,
And the clouds...ah, the painting above!
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The endless sea of blue
It fills me with amazement and joy
Bright, limitless, free…
And it makes me want to sing!
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Sing for awe, at the wondrous beauty
Of the sunlit, windswept expanse
Sing for joy, the joy of flight
The joy and freedom of the air
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It's like heaven up here!
What I feel, I express in song
My voice sounds out like a pealing bell
Pouring forth in a tune like a river
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And down below, they look up and smile
"Look!" They call to each other.
"It's an Altaria!"
They laugh, smile, listen in awe
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I like to see them smile
So I keep singing for them,
Singing of the sky
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So that these humans,
Wingless and bound to land,
May know and feel that joy—
The joy that the skies give to me.
So how was it? This poem's pretty "free" to me; the lines are all different lengths, some short, some long.
It was quite a short poem, wasn't it? Well, it was written on the bus. Took me about 10 minutes. I pretty much rushed it.