Wings of silver

Chapter 11: FLIGHT

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About This Book

The collection presents spiritual and nature-centered lyric poems that use images of flight, birds, and weaving to explore life, faith, and immortality. Through meditations on growth, seasons, and the soul's ascent, the verses celebrate love, the transformative power of prayer and perseverance, and the letting-go that opens the heart. Several poems personify life and the weaver figure to contrast selfish ambition with loving creation, while invocations to the sky and stars urge trust in a transcendent presence. Tone alternates between contemplative exhortation and hopeful consolation, with recurring motifs of wings, dawn, and renewal framing a steady emphasis on spiritual uplift and inner victory.

FLIGHT

I would sing in the face of fears,

When about my feet they throng;

I would pass them by with a heart that drips

A hymn of joy from my eager lips;

For fear cannot live for long—

With song!

I would lift my eyes to the stars,

Though my path be laid through mire;

And looking up to the Heavenly doors,

My feet shall follow my soul that soars

Up, up—ever high and higher—

Nor tire!

I would open my windows wide,—

When caged seems this heart of mine,—

To the sun and sky and Heaven’s wind sweeping through,

That my soul shall rise till I breast the blue,

And the freedom of Life Divine—

Is mine!