Kiting (edited)

[Achebe]

It is entirely possible that I wasn't in the best frame of mind when I read the pome, but it did seem a bit forced and unpoetic to me such as in:

and then the darkest forest man has known
On a Spring day
wind just strong enough to bloom a sail and launch a skiff
a just-fledged falcon drunk on swoops and dives,

All the above read like fragment of poems read elsewhere, like lines mass produced in a factory in Fujian.
Cliches, conjunctions and unwarranted hyphenation.
Of course, I am sleep deprived and annoyed as a result. So pinch of salt please.

Edit: or just dense