“I wish that I could fly Into the sky So very high Just like a dragonfly”
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at seventeen she was so obscene thought the heavens above were made to shower her with love
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’til the day she ventured out got her first taste of self-doubt learned lickety-split that she didn’t mean shit
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she found no glory …no fame everywhere it was the same nothing special was she nothing more would she be
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the Goddess’s grace brought a stranger to that place in time to be revived and so she survived
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survived to write but never be in the limelight the constant depression led to her writing a confession
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survived to continuously attempt to end the life she held in contempt and at last succeed to fill that aching need
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fame she finally received when others grieved the loss of Victoria Lucas ( for whom the bell jar tolled ) still no one knew who Sylvia was ( years later her story finally told )
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all i wanted that day was to fly away free to be me
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“I want to get away I want to fly away Yeah, yeah, yeah”
this poem is about a mid-twentieth century rebel girl, the writer and poet Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide a month after the publication of her famous semi-autobiographical novel, “The Bell Jar,” which originally came out under the pseudonym ‘Victoria Lucas’ in 1963. Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry in two published collections: “The Colossus and Other Poems” and “Ariel.” in 1982, she became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously, for The Collected Poems. Plath suffered from depression all her adult life and attempted suicide many times through the years.
If I Could Have Just a Moment at POETRY JAM So my challenge to you this week is to pick your moment…any moment…and capture it poetically to share with the rest of us. { i attempted suicide when i was 17, surviving only because a stranger happened upon me in a very isolated location. had i succeeded, my daughter, granddaughter and grandson would never have been born. }
I wish that I could fly Into the sky So very high Just like a dragonfly
I’d fly above the trees Over the seas In all degrees To anywhere I please
Oh, I want to get away I want to fly away Yeah, yeah, yeah
I want to get away I want to fly away Yeah, yeah, yeah
Let’s go and see the stars The Milky Way or even Mars Where it could just be ours
Let’s fade into the sun Let your spirit fly Where we are one Just for a little fun Oh, oh, oh yeah
I want to get away I want to fly away Yeah, yeah, yeah
I want to get away I want to fly away Yeah, yeah, yeah
I got to get away Girl, I got to get away Oh, oh, oh yeah
I want to get away I want to fly away Yeah, yeah, yeah (With you ) Oh yeah
I want to get away I want to fly away Yeah, yeah, yeah (With you ) I got to get away
I want to get away I want to get away I want to get away I want to get away Yeah, I want to get away I want to fly away Yeah, yeah, yeah (With you )
Girl, I got to get away I want to get away I want to get away I want to get away I want to get away Yeah, I want to get away I want to fly away Yeah, yeah, yeah ( With you ) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
i recognized him as a fallen angel
from the singed tips
of his still smoking wings,
a broken halo
lying on the ground
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the angel turned his head
and i could see the anguish in his eyes
no need for words to be spoken
nothing i could do to help
his banishment was final
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ah, my love, my fallen angel
i wish that i could heal
your wounded heart
what sin did you commit, i wonder
to be exiled from Heaven?
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did you realize
you were standing at the crossroads?
was this your solitary crime
or had you been warned not to continue
along your path to self-destruction?
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i hear your silent lament
your wretched soul
looking for salvation
too late…. too late….
your banishment was final
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ah, my love, my fallen angel
if it were within my power
to gift you with innocence
would you so desire?
flying straight to Heaven
without a thought
for mankind?
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mayhap a truer gift
would be a life
on Earth
with me
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*the first three verses were originally posted 22 December 2010 and the remainder was written for this posting
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this song has nothing to do with the poem, it is a Christmas song which i enjoy listening to even though i cannot understand the words. i hope you will like it, too. the first version is acapella and the second is traditional. song lyrics are at the bottom of this post. Happy Holidays!
Hark! how the bells, sweet silver bells
All seem to say, throw cares away.
Christmas is here, bringing good cheer
To young and old, (meek and the bold)
Ding, dong, ding, dong, that is their song,
With joyful ring, (all caroling)
One seems to hear words of good cheer
From everywhere, (filling the air)
O, how they pound, raising the sound
O’er hill and dale, telling their tale
Gaily they ring, while people sing
Songs of good cheer, christmas is here!
Merry, merry, merry, merry christmas!
Merry, merry, merry, merry christmas!
On, on they send, on without end
Their joyful tone to every home
(Hark! how the bells, sweet silver bells
All seem to say, throw cares away.)
Christmas is here, bringing good cheer
To young and old, (meek and the bold)
Ding, dong, ding, dong, that is their song
With joyful ring, (all caroling.)
One seems to hear words of good cheer
From everywhere, (filling the air)
O, how they pound, raising the sound
O’er hill and dale, telling their tale
Gaily they ring, while people sing
Songs of good cheer, christmas is here!
Merry, merry, merry, merry christmas!
Merry, merry, merry, merry christmas!
Wild thing… you make my heart sing…
You make everything
Groovy
I said wild thing…
Wild thing, I think I love you
But I wanna know for sure
Come on, hold me tight
I love you
Wild thing…you make my heart sing…
You make everything
Groovy
I said wild thing…
Wild thing, I think you move me
But I wanna know for sure
So come on, hold me tight
You move me
