Rolling Stones And Solar Impulse II

Icarus and The Rolling Stones

The Stones were on tour that ended in July and may have a new song

As a solar powered plane in flight tries to in the skies belong

“Get Off of My Cloud” is no longer Mick’s rallying cry

Solar Impulse II without any fuel soars slowly through the skies

Going where Icarus failed with his wings of wax

Thousands of cells to keep it aloft at 40 miles an hour max

It flies at night, flies during the day

Not even heavy clouds will force it to the laws of gravity obey

Through the clouds it will continue to soar

Across Europe, Asia  and the Pacific to land on Hawaiian shores

Mick’s now singing “Flying through my cloud

An Impulse simply now allowed”

For the weak at heart flying with only sun and batteries seems rash

Solar Impulse II defied the odds and did not falter or crash

But the Sun is like the passion and heat generated by the Stones at a concert show

The batteries were more like wax and suffered thermal damage and past Hawaii it could not go.

© October 10, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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