Walking along today
Over 40 degrees it was
Such a beautiful day
Instead of looking ahead
I looked up

A cloudless blue day
Greeted me
But something else too
Across the clear
Zigzagging around

The trail of planes
Thousands of feet in the air
It was geometric
Artistic
Like painters lines upon a canvas

They were to me
Sky drawings
Starting as thin lines
Then stretching out
Wider and wider
As the wind carried them away

Some would disappear
While others stayed
A plane etched one out
As it appeared to
Head towards the sun

The most marvelous thing
Was how these magnificent
Lines shaped the sunset
Hours later

Those limitless, infinite
Sky drawings
Created clouds
Grouped together
To form more majestic beauty
In the coming twilight

Even something, not nature made
Coming out of a bird of steel
Can form its own grace
If one sees beyond the obvious

Sometimes all you have to do
Is look up