Poetry Month: Writer’s Digest PAD challenge, Day 17: a swing poem

Swing for the stars

I jump aboard

Ready to fly

I fling myself forward

Abandoned of why

My body a ballast

Bounding back at the breeze.

My legs keep pushing 

past the point of the play

I toss my head back 

Expose my neck to the sky and

Watch all the birds circle higher than I. 

– Krina Ulmer