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New York Lands – Myfanwy Dabner

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  • in Australia · Poem
  • — 4 Sep, 2015 at 9:00 am

New York Lands

Myfanwy Dabner

Newbridge, New South Wales

Australia

 

New York lands
It is affluent of me
To seek my ancestors
By a passport
Spending thousands
To sit in a plane
Which costs the earth

I fly
To New York
To talk with intellectuals
Lonely and abstract
Insight to none
Ether minds
Sipping wine
I whine

Holding the program
I fold a wordly paper plane
I’ve licked the gum
Left a trace
It flies

New York with prudence
I’m now in two
For a few hundred cents
Saving thousands
My DNA here and there
Earth de-briefs

It is right of me
To stay home
To give all my worth
To cheeks without smiles
To the full-bodied homeless

To seeing
To stop taking
To stop flying
To fade
For futures wake
I shadow back as you alight
Ancestors winds blow sensibly

Bio: Note the word is wordly not worldly.

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  1. A A Anderson says:
    September 5, 2015 at 10:49 am

    A great poem, I can relate to it.

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  2. Demelza says:
    September 7, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    I agree with AA Anderson – I loved the parallel flights.

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