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The Dragon Flies' Lair~ Thread XXVI~March 28, 2006
The Seven Muses | March 28, 2006 | bentfeather/Poets of the Lair

Posted on 03/27/2006 9:23:33 PM PST 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©
2002





TOPICS: Poetry
KEYWORDS: classicpoetry; dragonflies; dragons; glengaulway; glenngaulway; haiku; knights; ladies; originalpoetry; prose; songlyrics
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To: bentfeather; All

Longtown Podcast - Vol. 64

Click here for Podnotes.


21 posted on 03/28/2006 11:12:07 AM PST by uncleshag (He who angers you controls you.)
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To: uncleshag

Thank You, Uncle for the tunes.


22 posted on 03/28/2006 11:25:58 AM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather

You are so welcomed, bentfeather.

This podcast contains a tune with an intro sent to me by a Chinese podcaster named Peter Mahero. His speech isn't perfect but he wants to do an American podcast to the Chinese young and the world ... brave or foolish, yet to be determined.

This is the world's public taking to the airwaves.
No more MSM! The Voices are rising!


23 posted on 03/28/2006 11:43:27 AM PST by uncleshag (He who angers you controls you.)
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To: bentfeather
These are very troubled times
riots on the street of Paris
coming from an entitled youth
socialism is the demon
is it creeping here in America?

Bombs explode in Baghdad
war is hell and our troops die
freedom is the reason why.

Capitalism is frowned on by many
it's a evil thing to want to make
ones own way in this world.

Independence is hard fought for
freedom to go in and out our door
work from dusk till dawn if need be

No people wish totally controlled
freedom means many things
and responsibility is one of them
to our families, to our nation,
for our actions.

There ain't no place for whiners
they will never change
always wanting more and more
that someone else has dug from the ground.

We are a mighty nation
compassion is our name
we opened up the doors
for all to seek the same
not on the back on another
but by their own two hands

work is good therapy
helps one sleep at night
holding on to all our dreams
keeps the going right.



bentfeather

Just some rambling of mine today.
24 posted on 03/28/2006 11:48:01 AM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: Lady Jag

Hello Lady, I just realized I forgot to ping you to the new thread.

25 posted on 03/28/2006 12:30:04 PM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather

First draft of a serious poem, I think:


Meditation on the Fourth Sorrowful Mystery: Jesus Carries His Cross

Each step, each breath, each beat of your heart - pain.
The weight of the cross so heavy,
each step a small miracle of your perseverance,
the determination to pay that price,
no matter how shaky the legs,
how short the breath,
how much it cost to make each step.

Glorified.
This is how the Father does it,
the way he did not ask Abraham to take,
no sacrifice of the firstborn for his chosen people,
sacrificed by blood and fire.
No.
But through you, his only-begotten,
laboring there beneath the crossbeam,
Your hair and face streaked with blood beneath the thorny crown,
face beneath the smears ashen with pain,
and the gathering doom in your chest,
already making you hungry for breath,
Scapegoat,
bearing the sins of the world,
each bruise, each welt merely a token of what they deserve.
Glorified
as you walk,
the smell of blood and fear and sweat and death and pain
swirling around you,
our deaths, our pains, our griefs
on your one set of shoulders,
each movement crying out its pain,
only a foretaste of the pains ahead,
until, fulfilled,
you slip away,
glorified indeed by the hands of your loving Father,
and in that new dawning,
hope born in the birthpangs we can only imagine,
you will stand glorified,
our Lord
world without end,
amen.


26 posted on 03/28/2006 1:18:27 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: bentfeather

I haven't been around today, so it wouldn't matter.
Leaving in about an hour, too, a murderously busy day.


27 posted on 03/28/2006 1:28:40 PM PST by Lady Jag ( All I want is a kind word, a warm bed, and world domination)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

First draft?? I think done. Of course, you're the author and will decide that.

Thanks Knitting.


28 posted on 03/28/2006 2:04:39 PM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather

Most of my poems are first drafts. Once in awhile, I read one that no longer talks to me, and I do some more, but not too often.


29 posted on 03/28/2006 2:16:19 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

I am pretty much the same way. I edit while writing. Rarely change things thereafter.


30 posted on 03/28/2006 2:19:40 PM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather

Sometimes I look at an older one though, and I can't hear it any more. Then I know I need to rework that material.


31 posted on 03/28/2006 2:21:02 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

Well, I can see doing that. If the author can't stand it anymore. ;)


32 posted on 03/28/2006 2:22:31 PM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: Lady Jag

I just bet that kitty is calling your Ole Mr.Johnson. LOL


33 posted on 03/28/2006 2:23:43 PM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

That is very nice Knitting A Conundrum:)


34 posted on 03/28/2006 3:58:08 PM PST by fatima (Just say it if it is for love-have no regrets.)
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To: Moshikashitara; WayzataJOHNN; HopeandGlory; Knitting A Conundrum; ScubieNuc; Texas Songwriter; ...

Good morning everyone.

35 posted on 03/29/2006 3:28:17 AM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: All

Martin Luther King Jr. said, "We must learn to
live together as brothers or perish together
as fools."



Today is Wednesday, March 29, the 88th day of 2006 with 277 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn.


36 posted on 03/29/2006 6:12:23 AM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather; All
Longtown Podcast - Vol. 65
        Please click above to listen!
 
In the Longtown Podcast above hear
the following artists and click the links
in the podnotes below for more info.
Romantica - There She Goes
Jim Brooks - I Miss You A Little
Adrienne Gray - Rooftops
David Williams Songwriter - Davis's Place
Diana Darby - Ferry
Jessica Urick - Casualty
Longtown Boys - Homeland Hop
 
.

37 posted on 03/29/2006 7:39:27 AM PST by uncleshag (He who angers you controls you.)
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To: uncleshag

Good morning, to you Uncle!

Thanks for the tunes. Listening now good selections.


38 posted on 03/29/2006 7:48:21 AM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather

Blessed Assurance

Good morning, ms feather. Hi ho, hi ho.


39 posted on 03/29/2006 8:29:29 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Good morning, Kathy!

Thank You for Blessed Assurance.

Have a great day.


40 posted on 03/29/2006 8:35:05 AM PST by Soaring Feather
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