#leaping poems on Hello Poetry

Diána Bósa Jun 2018

Leaping

Skyscraper,
skyshaper,
skysharper...

Don't mind the fall of ascending
for its gravity does the work for you.

A passageway to this wind tunnel is open now,
yet the recoil is still undone.

Leave the rest to the high-rise end,
and embrace your bound to the above.

#leaping #freeverse #above #sky #fall #ascending #gravity #wind #recoil #open

Jean May 2018

Air

And I take the leap:
        This is what flying feels like
One voice says to me
         This is what falling is
Another voice says

          And I sometimes
                              wonder
                                          which voice I should listen to
          Those are the days
                               I wonder
                                           what flying feels like

           I wonder
                      if I could feel the air in my face
                                                                         in my hair
                        spreading my lips into a smile
           Or if all I could feel was an impact
                                       A shattering of bones
                                              A skip of the heartbeat
                                                                              and then

           no more....

                                  Was it even worth jumping in the first place then?

If my life last only mere seconds
                                    why even consider it?

                                                                  But I think has something to do
                                                                                        with the difference
                                               between
                                    living
                                            and
                                                 barely
                                                        surviving

#anxiety #flying #leaping #falling #impact #surviving #living

Baylee Sep 2015

Lead Me

You are the way
The truth
The light
None shall come
To the Father
Except through Me*.
Follow in His footsteps
And you shall see,
It's been in front of you
All along,
Leave all
And be with Me.
Leaving it all behind,
Leaping towards Him,
All to find You were just
Leading me on.

#truth #father #leave #you #light #behind #footsteps #leadon #leaping #withme

Cori MacNaughton Jun 2015

Liquid Fire

Leaping light
Flashing fire
One moment he is gone
But to return
Suspended
Hanging
Then with a splash
Delightful play
He dives
And disappears
And we are left alone
And longing

1982

I wrote this poem in between phone calls when I was working in an insurance company in Pasadena, California, shortly before I moved to Florida. It remains one of my favorites among my poems.
Obviously, for anyone who has done any boating, the subject is a dolphin; in this case, a Pacific Whitesided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens), which was one of the most common - and beautiful - species common to California. The dolphin in question was leaping between our boat and the setting sun.

This poem first appeared in a poetry anthology dedicated to California poets, and though unfortunately I do not recall the name, it appeared around 1983 or 1984.

#fire #longing #light #play #dolphin #delightful #disappears #leaping

Al Aug 2014

butterflies

erupting in me
like they had been in a cage.
maybe they were,
but you released them.
now they're free and
they leap every time
they hear you,
every time they see you,
every time
you are near me.

sorry this one isn't too good. it was a quick write.

#love #free #butterflies #cage #leaping

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