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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WAR SEQUENCE: BOMBING PLANE, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD
First Line: Dread warrior of the cirrelucent air
Last Line: Makes him quick prey of the cold spider death.
Subject(s): Air Warfare
First Line: Dread warrior of the cirrelucent air
Last Line: Makes him quick prey of the cold spider death.
Subject(s): Air Warfare
Dread warrior of the cirrelucent air,
With wings outspread to cleave resistless space,
Holding destruction in a close embrace,
You speed to the attack with talons bare.
Alone you fight -- no military square
Of bayonet defense, but face to face
You meet steel vultures of the wind's high place
Within the fastness of your aery lair,
Blot out the golden promise of the sun
That man shall see his world and find it good,
But man, defiant in his hardihood,
With his untiring brain and tenuous breath,
Spins a dark web of war, that once begun
Makes him quick prey of the cold spider Death.
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