<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=583573" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Why Is My Heart Surprised?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">for my dad, the quiet captain of life</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Why is my heart surprised? <br>I can break gravity<br>Skipping that happy child dance<br>Then I remember that blue tag<br>Hanging from my windshield mirror...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why is my heart surprised? <br>Walking hand and hand with my dad<br>Delighting in those wondrous aero-antics...<br>Then I recall that those Blue Angels<br>Gave way to flights on the Wings of Eagles...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why is my heart surprised? <br>Walking together each afternoon <br>On those Castaway docks<br>A strawberried toddler reciting, <br>Hammerhead, Bull Dolphin, Weakfish, Grouper<br>Then I remember my Captain sold his vessels<br>No more are those rocking tuna towers <br>Seen from those Sandy Shores of Miami..<br>Farewell, Spindle beak, Farewell Noble Shark...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why is my heart surprised? <br>Flying in that squirrelly little tail-dragger<br>No more Luscombe tales, no more Eastern Flights<br>No more shouting in that noisy sky...<br>Piper Cub two o'clock! <br>Then I remember Carcinoid<br>Grounded my dear pilot..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why is my heart surprised? <br>Suddenly, my heart caught my mind..<br>Today I recall...sadly, <br>My head informed my heart<br>I am no longer skipping that happy child dance<br>Instead...suddenly my heart <br>Is turkey ~ necked, old and tired...<br>Farewell, dear captain, Farewell, dear daddy...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(May 3,2005 ~ Bell's Island, North Carolina)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Debora+Short">Debora Short</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=583573" data-title="Why Is My Heart Surprised? de Debora Short" data-description="for my dad, the quiet captain of life Why is my heart surprised? I can break gravity Skipping that happy child dance Then I remember that blue tag Hanging from my windshield mirror... Why is my heart surprised? Walking hand and hand with my d..."></div> </div> </div>

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