Monday, February 13, 2012

My Honolulu Airspace

A   L   O   H   A  !


Honolulu City Lights by Keola & Kapono Beamer on Grooveshark

After living below decks
on our boat for 20 years,
I now have intimate communion
with cloudy friends & relatives
from my high parapet.












Planes arriving and leaving
via Honolulu International Airport
fly offshore, along the coast of Waikiki.
I have a nice view of landings 
and takeoffs
under my oversight












Joint Base Hickam-Pearl Harbor
is in the same vicinity.
Here an F-22 Raptor 
sports like a
spirited pony.












Boeing C-17 Heavy Airlift ships 
globe-hop from here:
Humanitarian missions
throughout the Pacific
in times of disaster:
Samoan tsunami-
Japanese earthquake/tsunami.


And, yes,
they carry people & arms
to war.


( Returning warriors
are usually aboard chartered
commercial craft. )








Here Airforce One
says goodbye to Oahu
after a visit 
by the First Family.









See the plane to the right?

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
— John Gillespie Magee, Jr









Where are they all going?
Aloha-











Of course, there are those of us
who have found our home,
our Shangri  La,
here in Honolulu Town.
Happily
visitors like to come
and visit us-
JOLLY!

Thank You  
SO
for being among them-
                           
                     Warmly, cloudia