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The Dragonflies'Lair~Thread XLIV
November 03, 2007 | Soaring Feather/Poets of The Lair

Posted on 11/03/2007 6:52:47 PM PDT by Soaring Feather

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To: Kathy in Alaska; All

Kathy, here's your trumpets. HUGS!!! Enjoy!!!!

41 posted on 11/04/2007 10:21:00 AM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: Lady Jag
Sweet Dreams And Happy Memories

Aw, sweet poem, love the graphic, thank you.

How you doing today?? Weather has been great until now, looks like clouds moving in.

42 posted on 11/04/2007 10:24:32 AM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: MEG33

WHAT????? LOL our high is going to be 49, but as I just mentioned to the Lady, it has been a glorious day.


43 posted on 11/04/2007 10:25:36 AM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: NY Attitude

44 posted on 11/04/2007 10:28:03 AM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: Soaring Feather; NY Attitude
it'snot fair!


45 posted on 11/04/2007 10:38:21 AM PST by Lady Jag (ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '08...of thee I sing,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
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To: Lady Jag

ROTFLOL, didn’t extra hour of sleep today?


46 posted on 11/04/2007 10:40:51 AM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: Soaring Feather

ROTFLOL, didn’t extra hour of sleep today?========

ROTFLOL, didn’t extra hour of sleep today help you out!!


47 posted on 11/04/2007 10:48:30 AM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: Soaring Feather
..It’s 79 and so inviting!..I cut down a volunteer nandina at the back and have also done my last sawing off of a limb of a large bush at the front..I think my sawing limbs off on that bush from a step ladder is what started my back seige..

I had to get it away from the house and gutters and low enough that I could use a step stool instead of a ladder to trim it. It has thick glossy leaves and I made an arrangement to put on the hearth..and one small one for the kitchen.. I had left one limb too tall..but did not dare touch a saw for awhile!

48 posted on 11/04/2007 11:22:15 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Soaring Feather

Work in progress.

This is a sad piece, a piece in a long story I’m writing, a song sung by a woman who falls in love with someone she knows her family will be angry about, but she has chosen to be with him anyway (it’s kind of based on a traditional Japanese story highly modified for my purposes)

O Moon, shining white,
moving through the night alone,
fading out the stars
until all we see are you.

You see me, O Moon,
Standing in the shadows cast
Only by your light,
waiting alone, wrapped in white.

Trapped like you I run
Down the path that fate has picked,
My heart in his hands,
He knows not what he has caught.

My brothers must hate
what destiny has wrought here,
Human heart holds mine,
My joy is marred with sadness.

O Moon, lend me light,
to purify my sadness,
to bring my heart joy
so that I might be his bride.

Her song will be overheard by her youngest brother who will tell his other brothers, and when he does, bad things will happen.

I’m probably going to tweak it some more.


49 posted on 11/04/2007 11:29:57 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: MEG33; Soaring Feather; NY Attitude; WayzataJOHNN; Seadog Bytes; Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; ...


Bridge, The
 
  I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clocks were striking the hour,
And the moon rose o'er the city,
Behind the dark church-tower.

I saw her bright reflection
In the waters under me,
Like a golden goblet falling
And sinking into the sea.

And far in the hazy distance
Of that lovely night in June,
The blaze of the flaming furnace
Gleamed redder than the moon.

Among the long, black rafters
The wavering shadows lay,
And the current that came from the ocean
Seemed to lift and bear them away;

As, sweeping and eddying through them,
Rose the belated tide,
And, streaming into the moonlight,
The seaweed floated wide.

And like those waters rushing
Among the wooden piers,
A flood of thoughts came o'er me
That filled my eyes with tears.

How often, oh, how often,
In the days that had gone by,
I had stood on that bridge at midnight
And gazed on that wave and sky!

How often, oh, how often,
I had wished that the ebbing tide
Would bear me away on its bosom
O'er the ocean wild and wide!

For my heart was hot and restless,
And my life was full of care,
And the burden laid upon me
Seemed greater than I could bear.

But now it has fallen from me,
It is buried in the sea;
And only the sorrow of others
Throws its shadow over me.

Yet whenever I cross the river
On its bridge with wooden piers,
Like the odor of brine from the ocean
Comes the thought of other years.

And I think how many thousands
Of care-encumbered men,
Each bearing his burden of sorrow,
Have crossed the bridge since then.

I see the long procession
Still passing to and fro,
The young heart hot and restless,
And the old subdued and slow!

And forever and forever,
As long as the river flows,
As long as the heart has passions,
As long as life has woes;

The moon and its broken reflection
And its shadows shall appear,
As the symbol of love in heaven,
And its wavering image here.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


50 posted on 11/04/2007 11:45:09 AM PST by Lady Jag (ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '08...of thee I sing,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
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To: Lady Jag

How often, oh, how often,
I had wished that the ebbing tide
Would bear me away on its bosom
O’er the ocean wild and wide!

A touching poem Lady Jag, thank you for pinging me.


51 posted on 11/04/2007 11:53:12 AM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: All
Good Sunday to The Dragonflies' Lair.


Blessed Assurance


52 posted on 11/04/2007 12:07:24 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: Soaring Feather

Thank you for my trumpets.....very cool!


53 posted on 11/04/2007 12:08:11 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: MEG33

My goodness, you have been tackling some large projects, trimming limbs from a step ladder. You are probably right about what caused your back siege.

The arrangements sound lovely, bet they smell good too. ;0)

Weather is still holding here, no rain, clouds come and go so I guess we are dry for now.


54 posted on 11/04/2007 12:10:50 PM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: All


55 posted on 11/04/2007 12:10:55 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

You’re welcome, it’s been a while. :0) I love them as well.

Thanks for the Sunday hymns. You got snow??


56 posted on 11/04/2007 12:12:15 PM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Sad and beautiful. Thank You. I posted the Anthology Link so you could see your page. ;0)


57 posted on 11/04/2007 12:14:05 PM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: Lady Jag

Bridge, The
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love this poem, it sings so well. Gorgeous picture.


58 posted on 11/04/2007 12:18:03 PM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: Soaring Feather

And I looked, too! ;)


59 posted on 11/04/2007 12:22:59 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Great!! Thanks.


60 posted on 11/04/2007 12:24:08 PM PST by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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