Ode To The Drone

• Noah Bickerton, Grade 7, Bayside Christian College -
• Poetry
• 2019

Excellence Award in the 'Just Keep Writing 2019' competition

An Advanced Aerial Aircraft
Innovation, incorporated.
In fear of flight failure, flying, floating, footage.
At high-altitude with a hardware, hillside, hover.
Lens level lock on, ‘the drone is gonna crash!’
Camera, capability, ‘experience is the key’.
Deploy, descend, destroy
‘The drone is gonna crash!’
My Advanced Aerial Aircraft
With problematic pan.
Far, flight, failure over open water.
Waiting, watching, whistling
‘The Drone is gonna crash!’
Experimental, engineering error
‘I better Land quick!’
Learning, landing, luring
‘The drone is gonna crash!’
My advanced aerial aircraft
It barely made it alive...