“Seagulls” by Robert Francis

1. “Seagulls” by Robert Francis This poem relates to JLS because It expresses the feelings of being free. Jonathan wanted to achieve the most he could be in his own way, just being able to do his own thing and be himself. After doing that, however, he wanted and needed to work with other birds—to teach them what he knew. This poem basically says that birds are achieving something that people have never actually been able to. Birds can be able to freely go their way yet they can work together in formation. Birds have a certain type of freedom that only they can have because they can work in tandem while still experiencing the exhilaration of free flight.

2. Between the under and the upper blue All day the seagulls climb and swerve and soar, Arc intersecting arc, curve over curve.

3. And you may watch them weaving a long time And never see their pattern twice the same And never see their pattern once imperfect.

4. Take any moment they are in the air. If you could change them, if you had the power, How would you place them other than they are?

5. What we have labored all our lives to have And failed, these birds effortlessly achieve: Freedom that flows in form and still is free. Slide show by Cjavia Jones