A moonless night, and in mid-air flight
The pilot dimmed plane's internal light
To see, unseen cosmic sight.
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Eighty thousand feet up in the air.
Higher than anything flying there,
Gave sky-view of a scene so rare.
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Gleaming expanse of the Milky Way.
Brilliant white-striped delight, and swaying
With glittering light before his gaze.
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Canvas was studded with sparkling stars,
Clustered most densely, then from afar
Space was shot through with golden bars.
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Like a firework display without sound.
Every few seconds stars darted around.
With radiance not seen from the ground.
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An eerie shine, of celestial glow,
Lit incandescently heaven's show,
Despite speed the plane seemed to slow.
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To a humbled stillness, and was part
Of a much greater power, which startled
The pilot's unbelieving heart.
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Taken aback, he thought then, the plane
Compared to this, could not be again
The pride of the sky as acclaimed.
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He was left wordless with what he'd observed
As he noted the glory whilst flying 'Blackbird'
Taken from written experience of a
pilot of SR 17 'Blackbird', in flight..
Time stood still for that bird in flight as shooting stars marveled delight ten seconds of memory were compressed replayed over in a mind so blessed
To a humbled stillness, and was part Of a much greater power, which startled The pilot's unbelieving heart. ............................. It's surprising poem... As himself the pilot of ' Blackbird ', ...10... Thank you dear Fay Tsira
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Fay, I tried to comment on this when you posted it, but PH wouldn't let me which is the reason why you haven't seen me for a couple of days. I felt that I was flying with you on this one. Top marks and thanks for sharing this with us my friend. Hugs David