contrary to popular opinion
birds don’t really fly
though the illusion
is quite convincing
the feathers tickle the wind
into fits of laughter
and it’s this unheard laughter
that takes the birds aloft
I like your stuff Nels. And I especially like this one.
Oh, yeah. That was nice. Thanks for posting it.
Get that apostrophe in there, though.
…and [its] this unheard laughter…
Thanks, Faust, for noticing the missing apostrophe - “its” should be “it’s” b/c it’s the pronoun contraction form being used not the possessive form. I’m usually good about not confusing the difference between “its” and “it’s”., but this one slipped by me b/c it appears I got compacently sloppy when I was doing a hasty job of proofreading before I had to log-off and actually conduct some activities in the outside world - guess I errantly assumed I didn’t have to do a thorough proofreading with such a short poem Kudos on the kkeen observation, and I will correct this slight oversight. Sometimes I intentionally misspell words or intentionally ignore usage, tense, person, number grammatical and sytactic rules for the sake of Poetic License when playing word games in my poetry, but this was not the case with this poem in the misuse of “its”.
–guess the addage “the word ‘assume’ makes an ass out of ‘u’ and ‘me’” applies here,
Nels.
Thanks, Rainey, you are also one of my favorite contrubutors --poetry or otherwise-- on this site up there with Underground Nan and Btrflykng among others. Since I’ve only been a member for a few short weeks, I have yet to become familiar with all --or at least a healthy majority-- of the ILP family of member-contributors, but my list is growing every day.
Nels.