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~The Dragon Flies' Lair~Thread~XXII
August 28, 2005 | bentfeather/The Poets of the Lair

Posted on 08/28/2005 2:26:23 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

My Dragon Fly and Me

If I could be a Dragon Fly
and wing my way through the sky
I would never be shy
just me and my Dragon Fly!

By moonlight we ride the wind
chase the comets tail for fun
by day we would hide from the sun
our fragile wings would come undone

On darkest nights we would use
fireflies as our guide
we would dip and we would glide
through the heavens open wide
and scatter diamonds in the night sky
my Dragon Fly and me...

And we would wing past our lovers
silent in the night...
to kiss their face in our flight
much to their surprise and delight
my Dragon Fly and me in sight...

Such a view do we share
away up here in the air
of breezes soft through our hair
my Dragon Fly and me a pair...

bentfeather©





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Two years celebrating the craft of writing.
Thank You All.

~The Dragon Flies' Lair was first posted August 27, 2003 ~

~A place to write a few lines of poetry or prose.~

~ Links to all threads.~

The Dragon Flies' Lair ~ Thread I
The Dragon Flies' Lair ~ Thread II
The Dragon Flies' Lair ~ Thread III
The Dragon Flies' Lair ~ Thread IV
The Dragon Flies' Lair ~ Thread V
The Dragon Flies' Lair ~ Thread VI
The Dragon Flies' Lair ~ Thread VII
The Dragon Flies' Lair ~ Thread VIII
The Dragon Flies' Lair ~ Thread IX
The Dragon Flies' Lair ~ Thread X
The Dragon Flies' Lair~Thread XI
The Dragon Flies' Lair~Thread XII
The Dragon Flies' Lair ~ Thread XIII
The Dragon Flies' Lair~Thread XIV
The Dragon Flies' Lair~Thread XV
The Dragon Flies'Lair~Thread XVI
The Dragon Flies'Lair~Thread XVII
The Dragon Flies'Lair~Thread XVIII
The Dragon Flies' Lair~Thread XIX

The Dragon Flies' Lair~Thread XX

The Dragon Flies' Lair~Thread XXI




1 posted on 08/28/2005 2:26:33 AM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: SouthernHawk; Jet Jaguar; Texas Songwriter; laurenmarlowe; HopeandGlory; SAMWolf; ...
The Dragon Flies' Lair
New Thread Ping

bentfeather


2 posted on 08/28/2005 2:32:51 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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To: bentfeather

Onward Christian Soldiers

3 posted on 08/28/2005 2:41:28 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Good morning, Kathy.

Wonderful hymn for today. Thank you so much.

We pray for protection of our nation and her deployed troops.


4 posted on 08/28/2005 2:44:02 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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To: bentfeather

Good morning, Miss Feather! Congratulations on the happy anniversary!


5 posted on 08/28/2005 6:48:06 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Pardon me while I have a strange interlude. " - Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Morning, Colonel.

Thank You.


6 posted on 08/28/2005 7:59:26 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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To: HopeandGlory; All
Hope, all, I am reposting this lovely poem on the new thread.
This is lovely, thank you.


The Dragonflies Lair
is a haven for me,
a serene quiet place
of sanctuary.

Where like minds can gather
our stories to tell,
from deep down inside us,
erupting, like an endless well.

Sometimes when we think
we're running on empty,
we're prompted by a "Fellow"
and then, we find plenty.

We help one another
when we're in despair,
no wonder I love
This Dragonflies Lair.

rim 8/27/05

7 posted on 08/28/2005 10:31:42 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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To: WayzataJOHNN; All

Reposting to new thread...



To: bentfeather
Silent shifts of luminecences
brings forth His day of Faith again
and we are given lessons in joy and pain
by the caring heart of the Innocent

Let all who see, thank Him for sight
Let all who hear, thank Him for much
Let all who feel, thank Him for touch
Let all who think, thank Him for insight

Let all who bow in humble faith, feel grace
and share it with an open heart so free
for them we gift all about as it should be
until the day we see His gentle face.



1,142 posted on 08/28/2005 1:09:20 AM EDT by WayzataJOHNN
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8 posted on 08/28/2005 10:33:17 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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To: La Enchiladita

Special ping.


9 posted on 08/28/2005 12:45:20 PM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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To: bentfeather

Special thank you. ;-]


10 posted on 08/28/2005 1:22:05 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Remembering our Heroes today and every day. . . "Operation Gratitude")
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To: La Enchiladita; All

Another treasure from the most recent thread.

La Enchiladita graciously gave permission to repost this poem.

Thank You



HAPPY 2nd ANNIVERSARY TO THE DRAGONFLIES' LAIR!!!
(My regards and admiration to "Queenie" Ms. Bentfeather, to all you poets who are my inspiration...)

Gentleness seeks a gentle place
To rest awhile and ease the pace
Of daring and heroic deeds
Rest awhile and plumb the soul
Silenced by the rock and roll and crowds
And dust, by work’s harsh glare
Remember twilight, the hush
Of time suspended

Say hello to morning and hear
The reply in lairdom where kindred
Meet to sweeten grief and attendant
Woes, to wonder at wasps and
Beating wings --- perhaps of angels,
Perhaps of stings,
To roll in hay with childish glee,
To say I know … knowingly.

Retreat and enter life more fully,
Be pebble, pond and ripple,
Be skimming dragonfly.
Be dreamer and dare
To rest awhile at the Lair.

L.E., 8/27/05


1,116 posted on 08/27/2005 2:39:59 PM EDT by La Enchiladita (Remembering our Heroes today and every day. . . "Operation Gratitude")
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11 posted on 08/28/2005 1:33:33 PM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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To: All
Rolling This Dream

Sunrise in sadness

rolling this dream memory over,

forgetting

the rhythms of darkness

control time,

it cannot heal pain.

bentfeather
08.28.05


12 posted on 08/28/2005 1:54:02 PM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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To: bentfeather


Our fragile earth,
so blue from space,
gives us a berth,
albeit, a tenuous place.

Hurricane's show,how ineffectual we are
at combating Nature,
Environmentalists,
what say you now?

We're tossed around
like so much waste,
from Natural forces, and
yes, we fall flat on our face.

Those who advocate,
that we can control,
the awesome power unleashed,
well, it's all hyperbole.

Our time on this earth,
is an alloted amount,
so, beware Human Race,
We're only here, by Gods Grace.

rim 8/28/05


Thank you for bringing my poem forward Miss Feather . . .I'm honoured!!!


13 posted on 08/28/2005 7:47:24 PM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: HopeandGlory
Good evening, Hope. You're most welcome, I love the poem.

You're poem this evening is all too, true.

The winds of nature
we don't control
flaying about as
seeds of hay
the palm up roots
the roofs give way
we humans flee
in wonder and awe
the power of nature
wild and free
no constraints can
we put on her
we have to wait.

For her
ranging and ranting
looking with one eye
and fooling those in the path
the quiet of it's passing
a rouse it be in the eye
her fury she rents as her
skirts drag behind
blowing all asunder with
her mighty tail wind.

bentfeather
08.29.05

14 posted on 08/28/2005 8:00:30 PM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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To: bentfeather; everyone
Thank you for the response Miss Feather . . .your poems always seem to come so effortlessly . . . Sometimes mine do . . . but, not always . . . ;-)

Prayers going up for the People in New Orleans and the whole Gulf Coast . . . God be with you all.

Goodnight everyone . . . see you tomorrow.

15 posted on 08/28/2005 8:30:41 PM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: bentfeather

Part of my job is seeing and hearing things I wished didn't happen, but know they will, as long as humans are all too human. This poem is a dark poem, more because its all too often part of someone's life then we might like to admit.

Domestic Hell

In the once comforting dark,
her large luminous eyes,
shine like ebony jewels bright,
like the tears on her tiny cheeks.

Her tiny fear so strong it reeks,
as she lies in the darkness in fright,
listening to her mother’s painful cries,
until dawn’s first glimmering spark.

Like booze, arguments and anger flow,
words that are so strong they sting,
her parents vent their frustrations now,
and she lies in the dark in her own fear.

Fearing neither parent remembers what’s dear,
cries of pain and anger together ring,
and in the dark room she hears the row,
somewhere near dawn comes the first blow.

A slamming door, her daddy is gone to work, or away,
and mommy is silent, so silent it all seems so wrong,
hours pass without end, and she is so hungry there,
then a big man in blue comes in and shakes his head.

A lady took her away, for mommy couldn’t, she said,
so strangers would have to give her some loving care
daddy she never saw again, or heard his go-to-sleep song,
they said he had a terrible debt, so he had to go away to pay.

She lies in a darkened room, and hears memories again,
wondering if they will ever go away like daddy did,
and fearing they might, and then she’d be so alone,
and its so hard growing up in a stranger’s home this way.

She longs for someone to say its all ok, so she can play,
with mommy and daddy once again, her punishment to atone,
lost in the dark, she burrows under the covers, time she hid,
maybe one day she would hear the words that would end her pain.





16 posted on 08/28/2005 9:47:53 PM PDT by WayzataJOHNN
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To: WayzataJOHNN

Yes, there is this side of life
Some walk in darkness, beatings and strife
the scars are carried on the skin
but those inside, buried deep
are more painful than those
visible to the human eye.

The soul scars are etched
in tissue and flesh
the brain tapes are played
when not a request

They undermine the human
trying to do best
the negative tapes play
night and day
the tapes need a cleaning
a blank space to start
a new set of scenes a new guide
to follow sometimes it's hard
the learning new ways

but not impossible to
fly with the breeze.



17 posted on 08/29/2005 7:03:30 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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To: La Enchiladita; AZamericonnie; SouthernHawk; Jet Jaguar; Texas Songwriter; laurenmarlowe; ...

Good morning everyone.

18 posted on 08/29/2005 7:05:51 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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To: bentfeather

"but not impossible to
fly with the breeze."

That is so very, very true, and the most powerful thing one can do!

Good morning Lady Fair


19 posted on 08/29/2005 9:54:02 AM PDT by WayzataJOHNN
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To: WayzataJOHNN

Good morning to you Johnn.


Trust you are hale and hardy this day.


We do hold that power don't we. Our wings have broken the surly bonds of earth.


20 posted on 08/29/2005 9:59:43 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (Two Years of Poetry...)
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