Today, June 5, 2012, at about 6:10PM, I saw a Golden Eagle flying Northwest, about 4 miles north of the intersection of Rte 322 and Fries Mill Rd.
The bird was about 80' high ( roughly 4 car lengths), and in no particular hurry.
I hadn't seen one since boyhood and was rather moved.
(In the 70's, I wrote this, while riding a NYC subway):
Eagle Song
The eagle calls !
Forsaking walls
My spirit leaps to join her
In the freedom of the skies.
Our golden eyes
Flash like summer lightning
As in mock attack we clash :
Talons locked, we pinwheel down -
How the air around us sings !
Until at last, our passions quenched
We spread our whistling wings
To soar, aloof
Above Man's lowly world of things.
But then – below- I see myself
Still trapped in mortal chains :
Never to know the secrets of the wind -
Or to drink the wine of Freedom
From the chalice of the rains.
The bird was about 80' high ( roughly 4 car lengths), and in no particular hurry.
I hadn't seen one since boyhood and was rather moved.
(In the 70's, I wrote this, while riding a NYC subway):
Eagle Song
The eagle calls !
Forsaking walls
My spirit leaps to join her
In the freedom of the skies.
Our golden eyes
Flash like summer lightning
As in mock attack we clash :
Talons locked, we pinwheel down -
How the air around us sings !
Until at last, our passions quenched
We spread our whistling wings
To soar, aloof
Above Man's lowly world of things.
But then – below- I see myself
Still trapped in mortal chains :
Never to know the secrets of the wind -
Or to drink the wine of Freedom
From the chalice of the rains.