<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565007" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My father invented many things</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My father invented many things<br>Least of them the wings<br>You should not get close<br>To things that amaze you<br>I was soaring high<br>Pleased to be in the sky<br>The bird’s eye is what caught me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is man along that will hear<br>The measure of my song</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blue jay care not<br>That I am a poet <br>What I say may not affect you<br>But I am true to myself<br>In the wide open air</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>My father and I are<br>Ether brave or foolish<br>Surely one of them is I<br>But the escape must be made<br>From king Minos deed<br>He shall come to judge my death<br>What action informs your death? <br>What word whisper you with<br>Your last living breath? <br>The vision I envision is to escape<br>When I am air borne I reason why<br>Being free in the sky before I lie<br>In Poseidon’s lap</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To swim is to fly in water<br>To struggle is not to surrender<br>The wax is warm upon my skin<br>I did not heed the warning of my father<br>Latin poets shall say of me<br>That I am the artist<br>Feathers and wax is what<br>Holds my back<br>Vanity is the strength<br>Of my back</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flapping my arms<br>Against the fall<br>I call out ‘Father, father forgive me’<br>And so I die<br>Deep enough to take<br>Poseidon into me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+E.+Patton">David E. Patton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565007" data-title="My father invented many things de David E. Patton" data-description="My father invented many things Least of them the wings You should not get close To things that amaze you I was soaring high Pleased to be in the sky The bird’s eye is what caught me It is man along that will hear The measure of my song The blu..."></div> </div> </div>

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