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our cranes outside the window

October 24, 2022
By the_moon GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
the_moon GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
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you wake 

with the sun

you sleep

on the moon

you call

with the wind

and you live

in my mind.


oh great cranes

fly me away

take me to the stars

in the great sky sea

your great wings

both gray and wide

lift my spirit

across this plane.


i envy you –

your freedom,

for my wings

are clipped

from the jaws

of the unexcused

and the grasp

of swallowed guilt.

oh how i yearn

to be so free,

to let go of this

wretched planet

and break away

from my shackles

and finally,

finally, fly again.


The author's comments:

"our cranes outside the window" is a free-verse poem written in homage to a family of cranes that my mother and I frequently see traversing our town as well as a personal statement about the want to unshackle from life's hardships and to "fly free," so-to-speak.


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