~The Dragon Flies' Lair~Poetry Thread XXV~

281 posted on 03/12/2006 8:48:36 AM PST by Soaring Feather (Women Poets Rock the Babies, Baby Rocks the poet.)

Good morning, Bentfeather!

282 posted on 03/12/2006 9:01:54 AM PST by Lady Jag ( All I want is a kind word, a warm bed, and world domination)

283 posted on 03/12/2006 9:07:01 AM PST by Lady Jag ( All I want is a kind word, a warm bed, and world domination)

Awww so cute. Baby ducks are the sweetest little critters.

284 posted on 03/12/2006 9:09:52 AM PST by Soaring Feather (Women Poets Rock the Babies, Baby Rocks the poet.)

Here, have a box-full:

285 posted on 03/12/2006 9:18:02 AM PST by Lady Jag ( All I want is a kind word, a warm bed, and world domination)

Some may disagree with you.

286 posted on 03/12/2006 9:23:19 AM PST by Lady Jag ( All I want is a kind word, a warm bed, and world domination)

Some may disagree with you.

Oh too, cute. Both posts.

287 posted on 03/12/2006 9:25:18 AM PST by Soaring Feather (Women Poets Rock the Babies, Baby Rocks the poet.)

To: bentfeather; Lady Jag

288 posted on 03/12/2006 9:55:59 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

To: Knitting A Conundrum

LOL, Good morning, Knitting. On target today!

289 posted on 03/12/2006 9:57:19 AM PST by Soaring Feather (Women Poets Rock the Babies, Baby Rocks the poet.)

To: Knitting A Conundrum

290 posted on 03/12/2006 10:07:10 AM PST by Lady Jag ( All I want is a kind word, a warm bed, and world domination)

My Pirate name is..... Black Mary Kidd.... I like it!! ARRRR!

291 posted on 03/12/2006 10:07:38 AM PST by Reaper FReeper (Sometimes I wonder what ADD is, but than I find myself chasing a butterfly.)

To: Reaper FReeper

292 posted on 03/12/2006 10:10:55 AM PST by Soaring Feather (Women Poets Rock the Babies, Baby Rocks the poet.)

Psalm 121

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
King James Version

293 posted on 03/12/2006 10:30:20 AM PST by Soaring Feather (Women Poets Rock the Babies, Baby Rocks the poet.)

To: Reaper FReeper; bentfeather

Pirates? This always reminds me of Mr. Magoo doing Treasure Island....

1. Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike
The bosun brained with a marlinspike
And cookey's throat was marked belike
It had been gripped by fingers ten;
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break o'day in a boozing ken
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

2. Fifteen men of the whole ship's list
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
The skipper lay with his nob in gore
Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore
And the scullion he was stabbed times four
And there they lay, and the soggy skies
Dripped down in up-staring eyes
In murk sunset and foul sunrise
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

3. Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Ten of the crew had the murder mark!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers' glut with a rotting red
And there they lay, aye, damn my eyes
Looking up at paradise
All souls bound just contrawise
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

4. Fifteen men of 'em good and true
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Ev'ry man jack could ha' sailed with Old Pew,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
There was chest on chest of Spanish gold
With a ton of plate in the middle hold
And the cabins riot of stuff untold,
And they lay there that took the plum
With sightless glare and their lips struck dumb
While we shared all by the rule of thumb,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

5. More was seen through a sternlight screen
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Chartings undoubt where a woman had been
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
'Twas a flimsy shift on a bunker cot
With a dirk slit sheer through the bosom spot
And the lace stiff dry in a purplish blot
Oh was she wench or some shudderin' maid
That dared the knife and took the blade
By God! she had stuff for a plucky jade
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

6. Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight
With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And we heaved 'em over and out of sight,
With a Yo-Heave-Ho! and a fare-you-well
And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

294 posted on 03/12/2006 10:40:00 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

To: Knitting A Conundrum; Reaper FReeper; pelikan; All

LOL, Knitting.

Mr. Magoo

295 posted on 03/12/2006 10:50:51 AM PST by Soaring Feather (Women Poets Rock the Babies, Baby Rocks the poet.)

296 posted on 03/12/2006 10:56:42 AM PST by Soaring Feather (Women Poets Rock the Babies, Baby Rocks the poet.)

Good morning Pretty Lady!

297 posted on 03/12/2006 11:03:29 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)

Hi sweetie, please remember my family in Missouri in prayer. There are tornado storms over their area now.

298 posted on 03/12/2006 11:20:47 AM PST by Soaring Feather (Women Poets Rock the Babies, Baby Rocks the poet.)

Prayers on the way.

PS what has happened to radu?

299 posted on 03/12/2006 11:23:01 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)

To: blackie; radu

Radu, is involved with Proud Patriots up to her neck. She is just fabulous with all she does for the organization. Also, she is very busy with Car Club activities.;)

300 posted on 03/12/2006 11:27:17 AM PST by Soaring Feather (Women Poets Rock the Babies, Baby Rocks the poet.)

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