Shortlisted: Aerodynamics (a poem)

Submitted by: Druha

“The Sky was once an empty dome
A ceiling above our home 
But then we asked how things fly?
We soon got our answer, and there disappeared the silence of the sky 

A leaf that spins, A bird that flies
The answer took to long to be discovered
But finally after many years 
We saw at last how it all worked

Bernoulli’s breath, the knowledge it brings, 
The balance born of a plane’s  wings, 
The drag that fights, the thrust that dares  
A discovery of the movement on air 

For when we learn what lifts the plane, 
We see the world through knowledge and the brain. 
Not just the how, but why it bends  
The way the sky itself extends. 

Aerodynamics turns our gaze 
To wonder hid in previous days. 
A falling leaf isn’t just descent  
It’s nature’s note of how things went. 

And so, our world expands  
Let engines hum, let dreams be stirred. 
The world is more than earth and stone  
It’s air and flight and paths unknown. 

We don’t only fly through our skies above, 
But through new ways to learn and love. 
For seeing flight is exciting and  true 
The world is shaped by our aerial view”