The Natural High
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Have you ever thought about what gives you that natural high,
And lets you feel the great fantasy of floating high the sky.
This poem is about times when I had this wonderful feeling
Like no gravity at all, and I was heading straight for the ceiling.
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The Natural High
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When I graduated from Phillips High school I was feeling so fine
Ready to face the world as a young adult man walking the line.
As I threw my cap high in the air, my body was way up in the sky
Floating up there with the wonderful feeling of a natural high.
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When I was young and in my prime riding my Honda Scrambler
Out in the country with the wind in my face, just a wild rambler,
I felt a natural high and floated on the end of a web like a spider,
While heading down that dirt road feeling like the “Easy Rider”.
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When I got to Seattle after serving a year in the Army in Vietnam,
I got off that big Boeing 747 jet, and I was feeling real calm.
After a day of processing, they gave me my honorable discharge.
I got a natural high, flying high in the plane on the home charge.
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That time I hooked a seven pound Wall Eye on my ultra light pole,
On a jig with a small gold hook, I got a natural high in my soul.
I got higher and higher as I played that fish and I was sure tired
The battle lasted a full thirty minutes, but I was just so inspired
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When hunting Lake Meredith for ducks in a blind on the shore,
We would call those ducks in from a mile in the sky for sure.
As they circled around and then broke their wings on the decoys,
I’d get a natural high when we rose with our shotguns deployed.
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When both my daughters were born I got that natural high
When I got to hold them in my arms with those beautiful eyes
And those perfect little bodies and features oh so divine,
I was clear up there high in the sky on cloud number nine.
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While dry fly fishing for Brown Trout on the Rio Grande River,
Wading the stream in the evening, the ripple made the fly shiver
Then a trout sucked the fly in, I got a natural high and did quiver.
I was high on life as he very pulled hard with my pole as a lever.
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That time I had an aneurysm of the aorta artery which did leak.
And they hauled me to Tulsa in an ambulance feeling so bleak.
I heard the doc say.. This mans’s probably not going to make it,
Then I woke up alive, with a natural high, but I did hurt a bit.
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When we were out at Ramona Cherokee Casino one cold night.
Pam had just hit a jackpot for $5000 and I was feeling just right.
I put a hundred in playing 2 on a ten dollar VGF slot machine
And got a super natural high hitting $16,000 right on the line.
Nothing better than that Natural High feeling.
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By Bill
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Thanks for reading The Natural High,
Bill