The Dragonflies'Lair ~ Thread XLIX~

Poets of The Dragonflies' Lair | February 15, 2008 | Soaring Feather

[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©
2002

[Soaring Feather]

New Thread Ping!

[Soaring Feather]

Sara Teasdale, February Twilight


"I stood beside a hill
Smooth with new-laid snow,
A single star looked out
From the cold evening glow.


There was no other creature
That saw what I could see--
I stood and watched the evening star
As long as it watched me."

[Soaring Feather]

Good night everyone.

[SevenofNine]

Update on that BBC story I told you about report that 2 are confirmed dead in bomb blast in Mexico City report it might be drug gangs this time

[Soaring Feather]

Okay, thanks Seven.

[NicknamedBob]

Gifts

Tell me, what is a world without wonder?
Would you want to get up every day?
For me, every day is a birthday gift,
And a new opportunity to play.

When I open my eyes in the morning,
I’ve unwrapped my newest delight,
And all through the day I enjoy it,
Until I and my toy fall to night.

NicknamedBob . . . . February 15, 2008

[SevenofNine]

Well report from BBC wire UK House of Common is this close of allowing Brit muslum men to have two wives at same time allow to collect guess this

Welfare benefits how f***k is UK is JUST WONDERING

[SevenofNine]

Okay this post on Saturday for Kydto news wire guess who birthday it is

CHIA PET that right our fav Chia Pet from North Korea KIM JONG 11 of course North Korea partying it like Dark ages LOLOLOL!

[WayzataJOHNN]

“Hey, poet are you okay, get the heat fixed yet??
Are you working on your manuscript - hope you are not ill.
Check in okay?’

Got heat back, and things are OK, just been busy. I’ve written a book in three days, and its been a trip. Its about comparing my life and values with life today, and civers a lot of things.

The chapters are;
Service (when service was normal, like the old gas station attendant)
School
The Black Sheep of the Family (yes I’m there)
Values
World Opinion (of America)
Holiday (and Holy Days)
Music
Cars
Jobs
Maturing passed acceptable limits (aging)
Appreciating
Humor
Shopping is like Directions (women will hate this one)
Handling disasters
Health Care Fiasco
Relocation Blues
BC to AC (Before Computers to After Computers)
Pets We’ve Been Owned By
Summation by a Curmudgeon

It seems to be writing itself, and I’m going along for the ride, and its been a hoot.

[WayzataJOHNN]

“and civers a lot of things.”

And covers a lot of things. (fat slow fingers here before I have another coffee)

[NicknamedBob]

A book in three days ...

Wait a minute! It took me a month to write ninety thousand words. Have you got one of those Kurzweil Mind-Reading Interfaces?

I thought they didn’t become available until 2017 ...

( didn’t, won’t ... time travel tenses are so confusing!)

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning everyone.


But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.


Kahlil Gibran

[Soaring Feather]

Hi NnB, nice to see you!

Lovely poem, thank you.

[NicknamedBob]

I just wanted to plant my carbon copy footprint on your nice, new thread.

[Soaring Feather]

Hiya, Poet!!

My word, you have been busy burning up the pages. I really want to read this book! Way to go- just keep turning them out.

You mentioned the book is writing itself - WOW that is terrific.

Glad all is well at home base and that you and Nan have heat.

[Soaring Feather]

Well, that is thoughtful of you, thank you.

[Soaring Feather]

Written on The Word for the Day Thread.

A pome, is a fruit, a sweet offering from nature
like Figs and Dates which are known as exotic
in flavor

A poem, is a fruit of another genre
it comes from the air without a sound

the tool is the human is soul,
open
to the movement of nature’s silent sounds
using the pen of ink from the soul.

Soaring Feather
02.16.08

[NicknamedBob]

Poet-Tree

One finds poems like leaves,
Strewn and sprawling in the path,
Fallen and scattered where they will.
Tiny garments, but if you do the math,

Somewhere the poet-tree stands naked,
Shivering and exposed to stares.
And all that it requires is a bit of warmth,
For buds to form, because somebody cares.

NicknamedBob . . . . . February 16, 2008

[Soaring Feather]

Very nice, I like the way your centering the poem shows the out line of a tree.

As a typesetter, I was taught the only use for centering is for poetry. Many people find it very difficult to read centered text, they claim, centering causes them to lose the beat of the poem. Or it confuses their eyes.

Flush left is used most often to help guide the reader’s eye.

[NicknamedBob]

The Point

I
do
not
know
where
people
determine
all the rules
of living with
each other.
They
don’t
seem
like
they
keep
them
very
well.
Only
rules
which
live in
your
heart
will
help
you
love
your
brother.
All the
rest
seem
only
that
they
lead
you
both
to Hell.


I do not know where people determine all the rules of living with each other.
They don’t seem like they keep them very well.
Only rules which live in your heart will help you love your brother.
All the rest seem only that they lead you both to Hell.

NicknamedBob
June 19, 2004

[Soaring Feather]

There now, this cool, and I do like it!!

Very creative, I was not criticizing your work as a poet, a very good poet. ;0)

[Soaring Feather]

Oooops, I made an error

the tool is the human is soul,
Happens when I read what I think I wrote.

[NicknamedBob]

Try this, ... ShadowsA shadow
has two parts, you know.
The one above, the one below.
Within the shadow of a tree,
Toward the light here’s what you’ll see.
A shaded part of tree is found, To join the part that’s on the ground.
The joining of the two may be, Inseparable, like ground and tree.
But as the world
turns through the day,
The shadow starts
upon its way. To join
its cousins in the night,
And leave the clinging one in fright.
The world has turned its face away,
From that bright light
that we call day.
The darkness that
befalls thereon.
Will stay until the break
of dawn. The night is shadow’s
fearful half, The other part leaps with a laugh,
Out where it dwindles to a dot, Evaporating on the spot,
Unless the moon has ventured in, As round the Earth it does its spin.
The shadow is a twin at birth, Even when its mother’s Earth.
With one that clings close to its mother, And one that flies away from brother.
Its journey’s length always depends,
On what befalls before it ends.


NicknamedBob . . . . . . . March 3, 2004

[Soaring Feather]

This is just fabulous! Wonderful poem, and the trick with the light text for the daylight verse, then the black text for night, just so fine.

This poem is especially delightful to me. It is a fine piece of work. Clever, inventive, playful, serious, deep and lite all in one.

You should enter this in a competition, really you should.

BOB, may I enter this in The Lair Anthology?

[NicknamedBob]

That took a bit of HTML formatting, as you might guess. The original post, at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1370297/posts?page=432#432 was more straightforward.

Do you plan to enter it under my real name? It's probably time for me to be outed, anyway.

And, um, ... what is the Lair Anthology?

[Soaring Feather]

Check your FReepmail.

No, it would be entered under your nickname.

I mean, if you don’t wish for it to be in the Lair Anthology that’s fine with me, it is up to the poet.;0)

You are such a prolific writer it hard for me to remember the poems you post in The Lair. The link details your having posted this poem in the Lair a few years ago -which is fine by me. ;0)

[NicknamedBob]

Let me think about it for a while. Looks like a nice place.

[tomkow6]

Afternoon, Ms Feather!

[WayzataJOHNN]

Nope, this 200 page book is only 31,247 words, but its likely to create at least and easy 31,000 arguments and that is just what I like best of all!

I won’t even tell you how long it took to write my 100,000+ first book for the fantasy trilogy (I chipped it in stone as I didn’t have a computer or paper yet)

[tomkow6]

Handling disasters

Is this chapter about me????

[tomkow6]

"...a fine piece of work. Clever, inventive, playful, serious, deep and lite all in one."

Talking about me again???

[MEG33]

WOO HOO!


Happy Weekend Everyone... Lovely, Soaring Feather
We finally have rain.There was a LOUD thunderstorm with
lightning and a tiny bit of hail last night, then more thunderstorms
today and nice rain.

[WayzataJOHNN]

Check you email, sent you a pdf copy for your amusment

[tomkow6]

Afternoon, Meg!

[MEG33]

DO plant it here more often..Thank you for the lovely poetry, Bob.

[MEG33]

Afternoon, tom.

[WayzataJOHNN]

where are you gal, goofing off??????

I just bet you are, and not sharing the chocolate!

[SevenofNine]

OH LORDY there is itnerview on Aussie Sunday Telegraph remember Debbie Rowe Jackson the ex wife OF JACKO well she interview by Aussie press probably reason why the marriage didn’t last because she couldn’t bear no more children after giving birth to Paris Jackson that Jacko little girl

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23226941-5001026,00.html

[SevenofNine]

Well there is report off BBC wire bomb blast nail car envoy in Pakstin today protest that there won’t be fair election in Pakstein next Sunday

Also another report off Interfax wire claim that Kosvero would probably declared its independance probably tomorowo that freaking out Russians right now for some reason

[SevenofNine]

WHOA report from AP wire in new study out of Iraq terrorist incidents has fallen get this

80% percent down WHOA

[NicknamedBob]

Sorry to interrupt this global love fest, but I just finished this, and I wanted to get it posted right away.

Carbon Footprints

We’ve left a lot of footprints,
In walking all about.
That muddy ditch just didn’t seem,
To want to let us out.

Then getting past the darkling seas,
Was also quite a trek,
Though sandy beaches still evoke,
The feeling, “What the Heck!”

It was in heading northward,
Our fate became enmeshed,
With bonfires for our vanities,
And for the way we’re fleshed.

Without a warming pelt, you see,
We had to borrow some.
We got it as a dinner gift,
Don’t ask us where it’s from.

The borrowed sunlight we uncorked,
Made many a cheerful eve,
And sunwarmth glowing through the night,
Sustained us, I believe.

I fear we made a mess of things,
The cave floor was a fright.
The darkness we left scattered there,
Was but the ash of night.

And though we left some footprints,
We’re not the only ones,
We followed a fiery pillar,
And smoke across desert suns.

Fire even came with instructions,
From a bush on a mountain top,
So, though we leave carbon footprints,
By God! We aren’t going to stop!

NicknamedBob . . . . . February 16, 2008

[SevenofNine]

WHOA remember last weekend I told you about Brit Health minister warning about first Pasktein Brit Muslum cousins marrying they have genetic defect in their offsping welll UK Sunday Mail has first case that start it all

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=514911&in_page_id=1770

It really sad now one of children is deaf other one is Mentally challegne just because first cousins marrying and having crazy offsprings

[SevenofNine]

OH LORDY there another report that Brit govt going force all Brits banks other leanding house to accept Sharia law sayin Brit muslum in debt to you for house, checking account or what ever according to Sunday UK Mail you can’t take him to court under sharia law if you are not fellow Muslum you can’t say this guy own some money
That why I am serious LOL!

[WayzataJOHNN]

Muslims run Britain, so why not control their money too.

Too bad, it used to be a proud country, now its just muslim lite.

[Soaring Feather]

Excellent! Thank You.

[Soaring Feather]

Good evening, Tomkow, have you had a restful day?

[SevenofNine]

Touche John
BTW I hear one of Brit freepers you better not going in certain area of London if you are woman and alone wearing something skimpy or you get chance by bunch of Brit muslum men

[Soaring Feather]

Caught it, thanks.

[SevenofNine]

OH TOMKOWWWWWWW

MINEEEEEEEEE