#Tailspin
For sure my life was in a tailspin
Failing business
Struggling marriage
The future hurtling towards me
Then, with help of my co pilot,
Grabbed the stick
And slowly
Slowly
Pulled myself out of it
Now I can see the horizon.

#MastoPrompt #smallpoems

Watching Saturday morning cartoons,
one of the great joys of my childhood.
The name escapes me, Disney, Baloo,
he was a pilot flying a plane of wood?

Cereal dribbling down my chin, a burst
of saccharine colored O's as I laugh
wholeheartedly, the villains do their worst.
Cool Baloo, never bothered by half.

CRT buzz fills the void of a blank screen.
The show fades out, commercials fade in.
Remembering it now is like lurking in a dream
that's a rerun of Tailspin.

#MastoPrompt #tailspin

Wild flight manoeuvres,
a sky full of fire,
crash.
Her great love: Paul.

I found the hour
of the fighter plane shootings
on the internet.
Mother was long dead then.
And also non-Paul: my father -
his lifetime
compared to the missing
and found wanting.
And yet both men had been aggressors
in their time.

How could the lived
nightmares of Paul
find their way
into my subconscious,
the fear of flying
into my life,
which seems
like a constant downward
#tailspin?

#MastoPrompt

Tailspin, a turning point in our lives
But I'm ready to hold on and survive the dives

So here's to new beginnings, and second chances
To moving past our tailspin, and finding our balance

With you by my side, I know we'll be okay
Tailspin, let's make a brand new day.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Tailspin #MastoPrompt #PoetryPrompt

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#MastoPrompt
#tailspin
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Many have said
Along the way
To the leaders and the led
That time is a river -
Flowing relentless onward
Forever and a day -
But this I contend
And this I may say
A tailspin becomes the manoeuvre
For a particular kind
Who don't run with the flow and don't rush with the tide
And never yet find their sea legs
Or an accepting quality of mind

The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 7th January is:

#tailspin

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

You guys remember that #Disney slate of afternoon animated shows back in the 90s? #Ducktales #RescueRangers #Tailspin #DarkwingDuck you ever go back and watch those shows now? I marvel at the level of quality of animation and its old school. It's incredible.

#Tailspin
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