This week let’s write an aerodynamic poem. There are plenty of poems about natural flight so let’s get more specific. I want this week’s poem to be about flying in an airplane or some other human invention that gets us off the ground. We’ve only been doing powered flight as a species for less than 120 years so there’s still a lot that hasn’t been written yet. Post your flight of fancy in the comments below.
About Bartholomew Barker
Bartholomew Barker is one of the organizers of Living Poetry, a collection of poets and poetry lovers in the Triangle region of North Carolina. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he makes money as a computer programmer to fund his poetry habit.
Living Poetry 
my flight in time would take me to places
I have seen but do not remember now
nor was it ever stored into my brain
as just a baby Germany was home
I have always wanted to go back there
but back to those days when parents were still
alive and well and siblings were alive
and well and I would have met my brother
a time machine is my wish for this time
to go back once more and know what I did
not know back then because I was a child
make it be back then
now is not the same
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | September 27, 2021, 7:56 AMLovely ode to childhood memories. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 27, 2021, 8:19 PMThank you
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | October 1, 2021, 8:46 AMWe always long for our origin and root.
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | September 28, 2021, 6:42 PMCan you fly?
By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris
Response to Monday morning poetry word prompt
aerodynamics
Aerodynamically speaking
humans can not fly
Not like a bird on the wing
uses perfectly constructed wings
to fly
Speaking of aerodynamically speaking
that is to say
of a bird on the wing
a peregrine falcon is the fastest
flyer by far
Below the deepest blue of the sea
where nothing can fly
the many legged crustacean one
cooked oft in a pot is more aerodynamic
than a car
A car proposed to travel man around
could never fly
It’s aerodynamic’s designed by man
can not get it off the ground
not yet
But if a falcon can soar as a bird
on a wing
and a lobster can fly through the watery abyss
since a car is fashioned from all of these
then why oh why can’t I fly?
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Posted by GypsieWolf2014 | September 27, 2021, 12:37 PMYeah! Where’s my flying car!?
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 27, 2021, 8:19 PMIt’s in the works at the aerodynamically designed plant!! And I’ll sell you one (along with a piece of swampland in Florida) for a steal! Honest!
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Posted by GypsieWolf2014 | September 27, 2021, 8:22 PMI like your logic. Well penned.
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | September 28, 2021, 6:43 PMWill a non mechanical flying object count?
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | September 28, 2021, 3:29 AMNo rules poetry. Everything counts!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 28, 2021, 5:49 PMRight! I may have one.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 28, 2021, 8:26 PMFantastic and that’s me flying to a tee. I love this Bartholomew, excellent!!
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Posted by GypsieWolf2014 | September 28, 2021, 8:31 PMThanks. Glad you like it.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 28, 2021, 8:36 PMAir and water are fluids
The fattest bodies move
clumsy on land
streamlined in water.
The whale and walrus
the sea lion and seals
We are aerodynamic.
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Posted by JeanMarie | September 30, 2021, 3:16 AMVery cool! I wouldn’t have expected that to come from this prompt but that’s the beauty of prompt. Go where they take you, right?
https://jeanmarieolivieri.wordpress.com/2021/09/30/go-where-the-prompt-takes-you/
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 30, 2021, 5:16 PMI’m cheeky like that! Also, that’s the value of incorporating prompts into one’s personal writing regime. 🙂
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Posted by JeanMarie | September 30, 2021, 8:23 PM