The aviation poems presented here are the result of my introduction to flying in the late 80s.
It all started as a result of a fellow pilot asking me how my solo went on Dec 7 1985. I told him I really couldn’t remember much of the flight as I was too busy. His comment that he could still remember his solo many years ago prompted me to put it down in writing. It started out as a paragraph and ended up as the poem SOLO.
Several months later I was waiting for the weather to break so I could complete my Navigation Solo to the northern part of Vancouver Island and it struck me that what I was doing had a certain amount of risk so I decided to write down my thoughts about what I was doing so my family might understand why I wanted to fly just in case something happened, the result was Flyer’s Prayer.
I received my Pilots License on June 6 1986 and I wrote Flight Test to remember it.
Several months later I met some folks who were trying to get a museum started and ended up as the founding president of The BC Aviation Museum. Each of my poems has a story and I wanted to compile them into a book.
Flight Lines is going to print and I’ll have it available in book stores and online soon!
Enjoy
Patrick J Phillips
Flyer's Prayer by Patrick J. Phillips
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