Shouting At The Sky Poem by Jimi Doyle

Shouting At The Sky

Rating: 5.0


My little nephew Kevin
is riding on the swing set
Muscling and thumping
the wooden saddle
Like a jockey in the derby

Arcing to equipoise while
Showing the bottoms
of his feet to the moon

Up and down
Back and forth
Suspended from above

Now almost a revolution!
And a free fall from
the forest canopy
Free falling to earth
Then free speeding to the crowns
of the trees again

He is silent in reverie...
until he shouts wow wee at the sky

Wow wee!

I am sitting under a pine tree
drinking coffee...

And shout wow wee at the sky

Wow wee!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Pia Andersson 04 February 2007

one of my favourite poems..we all need to see more of the sky...look upwards more..makes me remember what it was like when i was a girl..Excellent Jimi! I love it! !

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Francesca Johnson 01 February 2007

A playful poem... I feel the joy and abandon in these words, Jimi. Totally uninhibited fun..........I like this one very much. Love, Fran xx

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