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    Flight

    By Debra Milligan

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    Flight is the third volume in the quartet of spring poetry by Debra Milligan. Each of these 16 poems is an invitation to a voyage in flight for anyone who dares to dream, for anyone who dares to let a reverie soar. Flight then is timeless for anyone who yields to the desires of the heart to take fly, to take wing and to reach new heights, to aspire to a firmament of one’s own making.

    Themes include the yearning within the separation from a beloved; the potent language of silence; the journey of a dream in flight; the sensation of freedom; the essence of faith; and the natural sense of soaring while reaching toward a goal.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebra Milligan
    Release dateApr 24, 2015
    ISBN9781311057082
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    Debra Milligan

    Debra Milligan is a novelist, essayist, poet, and short story writer. She is fluent in French and has varied interests in the fine arts, architecture, history of all kinds, music, horses, hounds, the Golden Age of Hollywood, quilting, fashion, and gardening.

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      Book preview

      Flight - Debra Milligan

      Flight

      Debra Milligan

      Copyright 2015 Debra Milligan

      Smashwords Edition

      All Rights Reserved

      ~~~~****~~~~

      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      1. Letter to My Son

      2. Flight

      3. The Silence That Speaks

      4. Vol de Nuit

      5. Whispering Wind

      6. Aspiration

      7. The Girl in The Mirror

      8. Love Song

      9. The Fight

      10. Guardian

      11. First Flight

      12. Eternity

      13. Longing

      14. Bird on the Wing

      15. Storms of Life

      16. The Sleigh Ride

      ~~~~****~~~~

      DEDICATION

      For those rare birds

      Of a certain feather

      Who are timeless

      Because they are not afraid

      To let a reverie soar

      ~~~~****~~~~

      1.

      Letter to My Son

      I wept this morning because

      I miss you so.

      I wept because I feared

      You would not know

      The tears I’ve cried

      Because we are apart

      Are tears that left

      An imprint on my heart.

      And so with hankie held

      in hand

      I’ll dry

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