> Excellent poem.
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> The first stanza seemed like this was going to be a 'I wish I could fly' poem, which has been done to death.
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> The second stanza throws that out though, as the speaker embraces being earth bound. The speaker rejects the sky. A nice rebelious streak I admire. But then the speaker actually challenges the sky.
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> The last three lines show the futility of that action. The speaker can embrace the earth, the speaker can reject the sky, but he can not fight the sky. The speaker is powerless before it.
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Um. Wow.

What stuns me is that you've dissected and critiqued my verse in such a way that suggests you might understand what I wrote far better than *I* do. I'm still trying to figure that one out.

Incidentally, my Dave agrees with your assessment of the poem's deficiencies.


> Speed'has been known to yell at thunderstorms, "That all you got!"'ball

Hope you're not the type to walk a golf course, in a lightning storm, holding up a one-iron club.

;)