"Solo Flight" (Entry 409)

Solo. 

From town

Far down below. 

High up,

Take flight

To dive air this night.

"Untethered Vortex" (Entry 338)

Beyond balloons

and kites on height. 

To take the blows

and dissipate the vortex, 

that they left behind. 

Blustered thrust at the guts

from their departure.

Left drifting in the air. 

Will there, once again,

be a tethering place?

"Universal Air" (Entry 335)

Solar winds breathe as

Universal air rolls on

Rusty dusty rock. 

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Inspired by the NASA - MAVEN mission to Mars - http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/ 

I've entered their haiku competition with a different poem which I'll post here once the deadline expires. 

"Storm Slipped Sea" (Entry 333)

Sally forth. 

A surge of sail. 

STORM!

Shipwrecked.

Smashed, splintered, slumping. 

Soaked in sea. Unseen. 

Swam no more. Struggle. Too sore. 

Shore too far. 

Showered spread squall 'tis all. Slipped to sink. Sunk. Swell. 

Seep so deep. 

Simple search sought naught. 

Silent surf sleep. 

"I. Always." (Entry 299)

I exist,
Amongst the stars,
Soaring through bright blaze of nebula
Secret pockets of folded space.
Beyond the sight of telescope.

I am,
Within the earth.
Unseen fingers wriggle in claggy cold clay.
Invisible toes stretch in mossy peat,
Where the wild world grows.
Caress Earth's surface and feel her breathe.
Go deeper and entwine within her heartbeat.

I live,
In oceans,
in the deep to dwell,
then ride upon the blustered swell,
To land as dew upon a daisy petal
Kissed by fleeting butterfly’s hush.

I survive,
In the air,
Hear my choral rhapsody within the wind,
be carried as dust wherever it blows.

I am there,
Always,
Part of The Universe - my home.

"Fire's on Fire" (Entry 217)

It sparked!
A lighting flick of spurred orange and yellow,
To roar adored on gas in aqua-blue mellow.
It ripped and raced in lightening streaks to strike and flight,
To boom and bellow - a hot red fellow.
To scream in bright white light.
Colours rainbowed - pure delight!