Dangerous Flights: 45 Poetic Flights of Fancy(2 Spiral Galaxy Series)

A no-holds barred sort of poetry collection. Inside this book are descriptions of hope, love, lust, suicide, the death of a hauntingly beautiful member of the Provisional IRA, the complete removal of the County of Somerset to Jerusalem, cave painting, virginity, deliberate road accidents, intellectual emancipation, a man who builds his own friend out of body parts, a disappointed Nobel Prize-winner, a pagan attack on military satellite surveillance using fire and magic, a blind Venetian clockmaker, sex at school, a depressed Etruscan seer, a worried Pieter Breugel, an apology from God about an execution on the M11, global warming, the madness of a spinning dream, poverty in Rio, what happens when you lose your wife, a warning against climbing rock faces when old, and Satan choosing which Nephelim will infest the Snake of Eden. In other words: something for everyone. I hope you enjoy it! All the very best David

Table of Contents:
Poems in Order 1. That Other Joseph 2. In Place Of Caroline Lamb 3. Background To Orchids 4. Enigma: Nothing Rhymes With Micheldever 5. Conventional Confessional 6. Shining Still 7. Observational 8. Marat In His Bath Now 9. Sin 10. Time's Up 11. Here Now, We Are 12. Do Not Raise Up Unnecessary Gods 13. Quid Pro Quo 14. Due To Ron And Me 15. Buddy 16. Sweet Lust Arising 17. Glittering Prize 18. The Day The Simile Died 19. I Set A Satellite Alight 20. The Big Lips Of Alexa Wilding 21. Through The Poppy Fields 22. The Blind Venetian 23. Some Other Nietzsche 24. Shivaree 25. What Really Matters At School 26. So What Are You Saying? 27. Most Thoughts Are Quests 28. It Can't Be Monday 29. Sedimentality 30. Entrails Of The Future Wave Divined - Maybe 31. Hope 32. Environment 33.The Lament Of Old Pieter Bruegel 34. Sorry About The M11 35. This 36. Words 37. The Question 38. Dervish 39. Legless in Rio 40. Private Grief 41. Crow's Feet 42. One And The Horseman 43. In Place Of Strife 44. A Life 45. Finula: My Windflower

About the Author :
About the Poet David Dennis was born in the University of Bologna, came to England with his Italian mother, joined the Royal Air Force, was PA to the Red Arrows, climbed in the Alps, served in the Mountain Rescue Service, became a diplomatic courier, and later, the Senior Accountant Officer at RAF College Cranwell. He left an RAF career of many roles after 25 years to become an external verifier and then inspector of learning, consultant, photographer, artist and writer. David is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and a Licentiate of City & Guilds International. He dedicates this book to his parents who taught him not to be afraid of pushing the boundaries.