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Re: Paper Kite

Paper Kite

One who is flying so high,
will soon come down to earth,
with strutting unreal ways,
you cause boredom & mirth.

When you are dancing above,
always remember and care,
what keeps you aloft are
little sticks & gusts of air.

Consider who holds the string,
that steers your flimsy flight,
in His strong and tender hands,
O’ tethered paper kite.

- Zhuk

Hi Zhuk,
Sorry. I've been a bit slow posting on this thread. I've been reading your work here, but out of all your poems (posted here) my favorite is Paper Kite. I'm especially fond of the lines "What keeps you aloft are little sticks and gusts of air." The feel of it enthralls me -- the flimsy paper attached to earth by a tiny string, supported only by the occasional gust -- just like some people riding around on inflated egos, attached to earth by a very thin thread of reality. Very nice imagery. I can almost hear the paper rattling in the breeze.
Now for my characteristic tangent of idiocy: My cousins and I once made a kite out of newspaper (the personal ads section) and a set of busted rabbit ear antennae. We took it to a field and it flew quite well until a sudden down draft sent it hurtling to the earth. This would have been fine, except that it took a nosedive into the area where Old Man Singer's cows were grazing. It darted one of the cows right in the ass. We all ran away, laughing as we went. I wondered what Singer would think when he found a bunch of personal ads and t.v. antennae in his pasture. But I also felt bad for the cow.

--Xtaabay

 

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Re: Re: Paper Kite

Xtaabay,

Thank you.

I didnt know you were as fond of kites as me.

OK now that we are on this topic, have you heard of fighter kites of India? These Kites can be controlled by a single string and made to dive, rise, turn left and right etc. The string is coated with finely powdered glass and some adhesive. Then we have kite battles in air where each one tries to 'cut' the string of the other. We have special festivals when everybody is on the rooftop flying kites and fighter kites do battle with each other. I am a modest man, but my sucess rate as a Kite fighter is over 70% !!

Regards,

Hi Zhuk,
Sorry. I've been a bit slow posting on this thread. I've been reading your work here, but out of all your poems (posted here) my favorite is Paper Kite. I'm especially fond of the lines "What keeps you aloft are little sticks and gusts of air." The feel of it enthralls me -- the flimsy paper attached to earth by a tiny string, supported only by the occasional gust -- just like some people riding around on inflated egos, attached to earth by a very thin thread of reality. Very nice imagery. I can almost hear the paper rattling in the breeze.
Now for my characteristic tangent of idiocy: My cousins and I once made a kite out of newspaper (the personal ads section) and a set of busted rabbit ear antennae. We took it to a field and it flew quite well until a sudden down draft sent it hurtling to the earth. This would have been fine, except that it took a nosedive into the area where Old Man Singer's cows were grazing. It darted one of the cows right in the ass. We all ran away, laughing as we went. I wondered what Singer would think when he found a bunch of personal ads and t.v. antennae in his pasture. But I also felt bad for the cow.

--Xtaabay

 

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Kite fights!

Xtaabay,

Thank you.

I didnt know you were as fond of kites as me.

OK now that we are on this topic, have you heard of fighter kites of India? These Kites can be controlled by a single string and made to dive, rise, turn left and right etc. The string is coated with finely powdered glass and some adhesive. Then we have kite battles in air where each one tries to 'cut' the string of the other. We have special festivals when everybody is on the rooftop flying kites and fighter kites do battle with each other. I am a modest man, but my sucess rate as a Kite fighter is over 70% !!

Regards,

Wow! I had no idea! A festival of kites! Well, unfortunately the only kites I've ever owned I had to make out of whatever was available. The best material I ever used was brown paper bags. The worst material was plastic wrap (impossible to keep the kite from nose diving). And then there was the time one of my cousins tried to use pages that he ripped from his brother's porn magazine... that didn't work. I never even thought of coating the string with anything, or downing someone else's kite. That's a novel idea. I'm trying to imagine what it would look like to have more than two or three people flying kites simultaneously. What happens if they all get tangled up and just crash without the strings breaking?

--Xtaabay

 

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Thanks to Guru Senna Jawa for his lessons on Kennings

 

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Judo, Angeline

I need help with this one and I want to retain the rhyming scheme. Please suggest improvements.

Regards,