Poems by Mike Ravdonikas

// Updraft

I buy my ticket
just to steal some sleep
in steely lounge chairs.
Not for the skies or smiles
of hard-faced ladies
with silver hair.
But somehow,
following the signs
and queues
and children’s rhymes
of laptops-liquids-out!
I find myself out there —
out of the gates, gamed
into taxi-takeoff-cruise.

from 'Nomadics', coming in 2026

More poems: t.me/verse

Bio

Mike Ravdonikas is a poet based in Dubai. His writing developed in the airspace across New York, Helsinki, Singapore, Toronto, and Buenos Aires — and refuses to settle with him. In his spare time, Mike is the Chief Operating Officer of the world’s 6th most popular app.

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