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―Natural Propellers‖ ~ Dallas J. Bryant 2009
Nicholas Messenger
The Solar-Powered Plane Falls nother lovely toy destroyed, its several engines slung below its wings of bending crystal, that turned oh-so indolently, buoyed by light or air. A graceful thing designed to paddle on forever, like all reverie for the moment, at the limits of the atmosphere. A trifle gauche, for all that, being stubborn as a bathysphere‘s abysmal tarantella, or the silvery bewilderment of a straying planetary rover. That we have begotten beauties like, will have to stay unproven evermore, if such inventions will not fly into the ages for us, having been forgotten, in a gentle flutter of propellers, far out in the sky.
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Nicholas Messenger had his first poems published in New Zealand as a schoolboy. He won the Glover Poetry award in the 1970‘s. In recent years he has had work published in a good number of online magazines. He was born in 1945, completed a degree at Auckland University, traveled extensively, and lived at various times in France, England and Japan. He has worked at many jobs, including seaman, security guard and demolition worker, and for a long time made his living as a teacher, of science, art, and languages, in High Schools in New Zealand, and of English in Japan. Now he is running a home-stay business in Hokitika. He has been married twice and has two grown-up children. Nicholas is a regular contributor to The Centrifugal Eye. Contact Nicholas