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Overhead My Spirit Flies

Charles Bukowski

Overhead my spirit flies Upon the ground and crimson skies Whispering winds in moonlit woods A totem oak once golden stood.

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The poem's speaker sends their spirit soaring above the land, under red skies and through winds whispering in moonlit woods. It ends on an elegiac note, remembering an oak that once stood golden like a totem, now past its glory.

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