Joy
A chatter of children
way up on Tennyson Down
hurtling into space they had found,
excitement dispersing mottled gulls,
bowled along on skittled legs
greeting the abundance of air.
Voices spiralling upward, kiteward,
the day tilting them on
and beyond themselves.
Wind heckling their burning ears,
snatching at clothes,
grasping at hair,
fingers spread and webbed
with blue, feet paddling
fast and faster,
swirls of laughter
scudding the sky
the joy of joys watching children fly.
way up on Tennyson Down
hurtling into space they had found,
excitement dispersing mottled gulls,
bowled along on skittled legs
greeting the abundance of air.
Voices spiralling upward, kiteward,
the day tilting them on
and beyond themselves.
Wind heckling their burning ears,
snatching at clothes,
grasping at hair,
fingers spread and webbed
with blue, feet paddling
fast and faster,
swirls of laughter
scudding the sky
the joy of joys watching children fly.
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