Images in the Sky

Memories of Avalon and Worldflight.

A Symphonic Picture of Mist

This is the piece of music that also was the catalyst for my writing a poem some 11 years ago.

The original poem can be found at
http://www.geocities.com/jenat_lai/poemz/mist.html

I will paraphrase below:

A Picture of Mist
Heavily pressed fog glitters with cold morning air and impenetrable thick haze.
A pure drowning weight thickens the unheard sounds that rattle accross the grey void
and echo accross the wilderness, moist with dew.
Throught this dank mist, a muffled flare shines. Dimmed by the sea of rain,
that all encompassing pressure.
But the wet splashes, waves of water move aside for this;
the gleaming grey body, shining, pulsing, moving faster
faster toward the sky, Leaping;
into the void once more.
That lonely indescribable void
omnipitent. Beyond description. Thickly draping it's formlesness over the distance,
drowning the suffocating void in soaking grey
that haze which we now run toward.
The freedom of the sky. The gift of our wings, those pillars of flame.
And soon land is snatched away. Taken by theat muddy haze.
Perhaps forever: perhaps an hour, a minute. But what is time?
It is a hundred things.
And what of love, or hate, or this;
a man questioning his everything while plying the clouds above another dawn.
A fast moving staisis.
A soundless Symphony

...

The pinky shadows cast. Warming the grey dew.
Clearing the sky from horizon to horizon. That shimmering spectacle
refracting colours off the sea, through hot live air
into the pilots tranquil eyes.
That Knight in shining wings, warrior of the sky.
Tranquily and triumphantly coming in to rest.

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The scenes are as follows:

1: Virgin Blue E190 lands at Melbourne YMML 34 on a rainy morning (Saturday of Avalon Airshow)

2: Qantas 737-400 lands at Melbourne YMML 34 on the same rainy morning

3: B1b Bomber takes off rwy 18 Avalon YMAV during the Saturday Airshow

4: "Boeing" Models

5: 737NG cockpit simulator at Avalon (No Touchies except for staff)

6: Nic D'Allesandro's far better 737-800 cockpit simulator in Hobart (Worldflight) takes off.

7: ME doing some First Officer duties in the Worldflight Hobart 737-800 Sim during Worldflight.

8: The Orbx Stand at Avalon Airshow (and a Real RAN Navy Helicopter guy flying a over NowraSim)

9: Super Constellation.

10: F/A-18A

11: V-Australia 777

12: C17 Transport

13: RNZAF 757 doing an underated go-around

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Airshow
• 737
• worldflight
• avalon
• Melbourne

[plodgeface]

awesome. look at that 757 at the end. very good 5/5