What do you see – A Daredevil in Flight

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This poem was written for Helene Vaillant’s What do you see challenge:

What do you See? April 2, 2019

 

He’d had a prescient feeling

When his application had gone in.

The excitement sent him reeling

And made his head feel in a spin.

 

When the phone call came

To say he’d won the competition

He pretended all the same

That he hadn’t had a premonition.

 

The booked time was at midnight

The weather had been rather warm

It wasn’t a great time for his maiden flight

Particularly in a thunderstorm.

 

But regardless of the weather,

He put on his favourite sweatshirt

And carried his lucky eagle feather.

And prayed that no-one else gets hurt.

 

As the lightning struck across the sky

You’d think no one would have flown that day,

But he was a daredevil and that was why

He shouted, “Cast-off and Chocks Away!”

 

Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 04/April/2019

 

I have also included the following word prompts:

https://lightmotifs.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/three-things-challenge-pl49/

Today’s prompt: midnight, sweatshirt, application

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/daredevil/

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/rdp-thursday-cast-off-cast-off/comment-page-1/#comment-11723

FOWC with Fandango — Prescient

 

 

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