17 June 2011 Volume: 21 Issue: 11 Australia's ... - Eureka Street

Volume 21 Issue: 1117 June 2011Certainly we dream of flightBut would our imagination stretch to them?And what else is beyond our capacityTo visualise? We dream so many thingsAlthough there are limitations. Some things defy us.Birds not only have wings, they make movement,Something to surprise us each time.They make us rejoice whenever they come.We are stuck to the ground and to the groundWe eventually come, even though we inventedA sort of flight. We kid ourselves.We are permitted to dream but our dreams are half-hearted.There are some things we are able to knowAnd there are things beyond us. We invented gunpowder.The flight of kingfishersI was always too willing to claim for myselfThe right of vision, as if only ISaw the magic flight of kingfishersOr the view from the top of the mountain.Others had been there before meAnd at that very moment were left wondering.The only thing I could really claimWas a way of getting it downWhich was more or less authenticGive or take a tendency to exaggerationOr an inclination towards what rhetoric could do.I was a liar from the start.©2011 EurekaStreet.com.au 15