The Dragon Flies' Lair~Thread XXI~

We can always start a Mars thread. Mars is always out there. LOL

Sorry you could not sleep. I have nights like that, too.

So glad the kids clothes came in.

1,001 posted on 08/25/2005 7:44:49 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

bentfeather We need more.I have people who sit here for hours waiting for childrens clothes and shoes.I announce it on the air and I am trying to think of different ways to get more.I might go to the local store and ask them.

1,002 posted on 08/25/2005 7:48:48 AM PDT by fatima (Just for our guys and girls,Thank you all the Military .Prayers.)

Oh my, how heart wrenching. People waiting for kids clothes.

My mom was so good about helping me with my kids. She would go to the Thrift Store and buy nearly new clothes for my kids at a good price. I sewed many of their clothes through out the years. Just had to, not much money to go around.

Going into stores just might work. Sometimes folks have things they don't know how or where to give them.

1,003 posted on 08/25/2005 7:53:58 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

I just have to be 5 people.St Vincent had someone go knock on the doors.I need someone like that.These clothes are for people who escaped the clan wars in Liberia.When they come to our country they rent containers on boats and fill them up and ship clothes and household items back to help their families.

1,004 posted on 08/25/2005 8:10:34 AM PDT by fatima (Just for our guys and girls,Thank you all the Military .Prayers.)

I like it.Shame you didn't win bestest girlfriend.You should have come here.Like your picture too:)

1,005 posted on 08/25/2005 8:22:09 AM PDT by fatima (Just for our guys and girls,Thank you all the Military .Prayers.)

Well, I did win a door prize with a value of $595.00 for next years convention.

1,006 posted on 08/25/2005 8:25:09 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

WOOHOO,so you get to go free.I'm glad you went.

1,007 posted on 08/25/2005 8:27:22 AM PDT by fatima (Just for our guys and girls,Thank you all the Military .Prayers.)

No, I had to pay this year, this is for next year.

1,008 posted on 08/25/2005 8:30:35 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

Well I am proud of you:)

1,009 posted on 08/25/2005 8:36:03 AM PDT by fatima (Just for our guys and girls,Thank you all the Military .Prayers.)

*HUGS* Thank You. There were thousands of poets there.

I read to 60 of them and judges.

1,010 posted on 08/25/2005 8:38:32 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

Isn't that fun.To be judge by your peers.What a moment.

1,011 posted on 08/25/2005 8:42:37 AM PDT by fatima (Just for our guys and girls,Thank you all the Military .Prayers.)

Yupper! I love the competition. A lady in the audience loved my poem, she took my picture. I asked her for a copy, but have not yet received it. I hope she does not forget.

1,012 posted on 08/25/2005 8:45:25 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

To: bentfeather; Old Sarge; All

Hey ya'll!! Old Sarge tried to post his poem to FR this morning and couldn't get it to post, so he sent it to me in FReepmail and I'm posting it here for him! Enjoy!!

Iron City

I’ve been asked the question, and been given the suggestion,
to talk about our life so far away,
So, with as much impunity as allowed in our community,
Here’s how it is, a blueprint for our day.

It’s more than we merited, the place that we inherited
that our brothers built with muscle, sweat and toil,
but by design or fate, this is now OUR real estate,
now watch as Iron City grows in the dusty soil.

With cunning and common sense, we have seen to our defense,
earthen walls surround us from the waters to the sands,
and inside the buildings old, that the shelling pierced and holed,
cribs and hooches form with lots of helping hands.

There’s shelter from the squalls, pinup girls adorn some walls,
hand-drawn pictures say “I Love You, Daddy” on the door.
Music thumps and blares, through the halls and down the stairs,
Xbox gamers fight in chairs, or on the floor.

Here in Iron City, now, I know I’m sounding witty
when I tell you that we make the best of things,
as we spend our nights and days in the gyms and Web cafés,
staying fit and watching what our email brings,

But combat’s nearby medley is all too serious and deadly,
and there’s excitement enough to fill your heart’s desire,
but we’re all a team and crew, and that’s the feeling I had, too,
when it came my turn to go outside the wire.

It was about at half-past eight, I stood at Iron City’s gate,
waiting in the sun with patience for my ride,
then we closed the doors up tight, and made sure that all was right,
before we ventured through the gate and rode outside.

I saw no combat patch on the soldier in the hatch,
but I saw the truth that needs no fancy speech,
when I saw and felt the smolder in the eyes of that young soldier,
as she jacked another round into the breech.

The Euphrates met my eye, as the convoy speeded by,
bringing this land its waters and its streams,
and once our task was done, we rode off into the sun,
and I was thinking while I heard the engines’ screams,

and I beheld the dusty, gritty, fortress walls of Iron City,
and went walking later, lit by moon and star,
when the fighting isn’t through, and there’s yet a job to do,
that it doesn’t really matter where you are.

So I spend my days and nights under Iron City’s lights,
while others say this trip’s already tiresome,
as I’m puffing on my pipe, and I’m living the soldier’s life,
Iron City is my Home Away From Home.

© 24 AUG 2005 by SSG JSR
Photo © 24 AUG 2005 by SSG JSR

1,013 posted on 08/25/2005 8:50:59 AM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)

To: StarCMC; Old Sarge

Star, thank you for posting this poem for Old Sarge.

It is one of your finest poems Sarge. So proud of you!

1,014 posted on 08/25/2005 9:01:49 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

To: StarCMC; Old Sarge; All

SSarge, JSRutt!
Author and currently deployed in Iraq.

1,015 posted on 08/25/2005 9:05:58 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

I like your poem.I can see Mary as the fair maiden as she looks for her real love.I would like to see the pictures of you reading.That takes a lot of courage.I had to give a little talk a month ago to my peers in the pro-life radio-TV-and print people and also the active volunteer's.It is harder to speak to your peers.

1,016 posted on 08/25/2005 9:10:13 AM PDT by fatima (Just for our guys and girls,Thank you all the Military .Prayers.)

Well, I have had a lot of practice. I have been reading for years in poetry groups and other functions.

I never get nervous. I just stand up there as though I am in my right mind and read. LOL

1,017 posted on 08/25/2005 9:12:59 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

I can see Mary as the fair maiden as she looks for her real love.

I think those of us with daughters see those things for them. I know I did for my girls, some of them got gnomes, some trolls and some of them got really good men. :)

1,018 posted on 08/25/2005 9:44:56 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

Well she just dumped a troll and he is bugging ME.She has a new knight but he probably won't last long.My son-in-laws are great and faith filled and we all have fun.

1,019 posted on 08/25/2005 9:51:42 AM PDT by fatima (Just for our guys and girls,Thank you all the Military .Prayers.)

Well I don't like to talk about myself and that is what I had to do.

1,020 posted on 08/25/2005 9:54:22 AM PDT by fatima (Just for our guys and girls,Thank you all the Military .Prayers.)

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