~The Dragon Flies' Lair~Poetry Thread XXIV~

January 2, 2006 | bentfeather/Poets of the Lair

[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©

[fatima]

I do read your thread and missed it,here is wishing for your inspiration:)

[Soaring Feather]

Thank You, fatima. I am happy to know you enjoy coming here. We poets appreciate it very much.

[WayzataJOHNN]

Memoirs

The long road, it falls away before me,
and I strain to see the place yet unseen,
over hill and dale, across glens along an azure sea.

The wind sings of distant places out there,
and I set my load and into the wind I lean,
seeking the new along the road with special care.

My journal, filled each night by the fire,
holding a story of places I’ve not yet been,
and I read them in renewed wonder, until I finally tire.

One day I shall set them in order, mark it clear,
so another may take a journey from a chair then,
and see the many wonders my memories do hold so dear.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning everyone.

[Soaring Feather]

Ah, nice poem, you're riding your bike again.

[Soaring Feather]

Eric Hoffer wrote, "The fear of becoming a
'has-been' keeps some people from becoming
anything."

---

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2006 with 340 to
follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury,
Jupiter, Pluto, Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars,
Uranus and Neptune.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

My dad sent that quote to me yesterday, or was it the day before.

Yesterday, I had a very scary reaction to an antibiotic,
and having walked that close to the valley of the shadow of death,
my pen fell silent for a day.

Maybe two! Today I may be recovering from yesterday.

[Soaring Feather]

Yesterday, I had a very scary reaction to an antibiotic, and having walked that close to the valley of the shadow of death,

Oh dear, so sorry. I have had those reactions too, and they are scary. Did you get the hives?? That's usually what happens to me. Did you have to take steroids?? I have been that road, too.

[Soaring Feather]

Food for Thought.

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If all your troubles were hung on a line
You would take yours
And I would take mine.

Anon

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Because you have
occasional low spells of despondence,
don't despair
The sun has a sinking spell
every night,
but it rises again all right
the next morning.

Henry Van Dyke

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I turned boiled lobster red over most of the body I could see, had a horrendously painful stomach spasm and a lower gi housecleaning, disorientedness, and uncontrollable shivers. No itching, no hives, and I am lucky that I didn't have breathing difficulties. I was home alone, and all I could do after the tummy problems eased off was crawl into bed.

No more augmentin for me!

They put me on Biaxin instead. So far, so good. All this because my 17 year old keeps bringing home infections for me. Flu, then an upper respiratory virus, which in my case, went into a sinus infection. I have had one upper respiratory thing wrong after another since December, when it started with an ear infection.

[Soaring Feather]

Oh my goodness.

I am aware of the turning lobster red, too, along insane itching. I was hospitalized one time and given adrenalin shots to help my breathing.

No fun this stuff.

Prayers offered for a full recovery today.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

No itching! God spared me that one! But my skin is still tender.

(I had nervous hives for most of 6 months. I know how awful that can be!)

[WayzataJOHNN]

"Ah, nice poem, you're riding your bike again."

Nope, due to the lack of hiring around here I had to sell my bike. (hard to do!) Otherwise we wouldn't have had much of a Christmas, living out of the truck! Sad to be 'over-qualified' refused a job because you know how to work, want to work and so forth

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning everyone.

[Soaring Feather]

Bertrand Russell said, "The trouble with the world
is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt."




Today is Thursday. Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2006 with 339 to
follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Jupiter,
Pluto, Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars,
Uranus and Neptune.

[fatima]

Thanks for the ping :)

[Soaring Feather]

Rabindranath Tagore wrote that, "Trees are the
Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening
heaven."




Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2006 with 338 to
follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Jupiter,
Pluto, Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars,
Uranus and Neptune.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning everyone.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Tipping Points

In the space of a single moment,
In the space of a heartbeat,
an inhaled breath,
everything we know can change.

Conception,
one moment, just a single person there,
the next,
two lives,
two persons,
two souls.

Death,
one moment there,
alive,
a enfleshed soul,
the next,
an empty husk.

Salvation -
One moment,
lost in the darkness,
the next,
touched with the healing light
of the loving God
who longs to hold us.

In the space of a single moment,
In the space of a heartbeat,
an inhaled breath,
everything we know can change,
tipping points
that reach out to eternity.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning!


WOW very powerful poem today. I especially like the title.