High Flight

This is the last of my poems for August. I hope you've enjoyed them. You can read each one under the tag: nablopomo - august.
Even Ronald Reagan reading it couldn't dim my love for this poem.

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air….

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

~~by Gillespie, Jr.

A rec

If you've enjoyed my poetry posts this month, you'll love this community. I saw it in the LJ recs for this week: greatpoets. Check it out.

FIC: Secrets of the Heart (Babylon 5)

Title: Secrets of the Heart
Author: alexcat
Type: FCHet
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own them but I do love them.
Warnings: Schmoopy love.
Beta: Larry
Pairing: Susan and John, sort of
Archive: Alex’s Story Book
Author’s Note: I always have thought that Susan loved him. It was there if you looked, in the way she acted towrd him, in things she said, how she watched him.
Spoilers: Yes. For seasons 4-5.
Summary: Susan begins a new life with a secret.

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Secrets of the Heart