~The Dragon Flies' Lair~Thread XIII~

June 13, 2004 | bentfeather and Poets of The Lair

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Everybody.

You Know The Drill
Click the pics

Coffee & Donuts

Johnmiserable failureKerry

[SAMWolf]

America the Beautiful



O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.

America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.

America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

Katharine Lee Bates

Johnmiserable failureKerry

[SAMWolf]

from The Freeper Foxhole and Snippy and Sam

[snippy_about_it]

Happy 4th to the Dragon Flies' Lair.

[Soaring Feather]

Hi Sam!!

Back from a grand day with the family. Thank You for the lyrics to America the Beautiful. I saw a little bit of her beauty today at my daughters in the country.

The Fourth Graphic is just beautiful, thank you. Hope you day has been filled with all the people you love and doing the things you love to do.

Thank You also, for your service to our great nation.

[Soaring Feather]

Hi snippy,

Thanks for the wonderful 4th graphic. Hope you are having a grand day doing what you love to do.

I have had a great time with my kids. :-) Some grand kids, too.

[SAMWolf]

Back from a grand day with the family

Glad you had a fun Fourth. We've had beautiful weather all day. Just waiting for it to get dark so we can catch all the "neighborhood" fireworks.

[Soaring Feather]

Good nite poets

May the sweet aroma of Lily of the Valley
fill your dreams
caress your face
tenderly lull you to sleep
in the safety of knowing love...

~ Dream a Little ~ Love a Lot ~

I remember the color your hair was...
the color of spiced rum
With memories of you
walking without me
in gentle oriental rain
Left me with dreams
of being lost in your embrace.
The peace in your eyes
shone through
I was lost, lost
in your eyes
..........lost
in your embrace...
Dreams of you at Indian Twilight...

bentfeather
Touch the Chariot of Fire

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning everyone.

[Soaring Feather]

This Is the First Time I Have Ever Loved

This is the first time I have ever loved;
Yours, the first face I can not forget.
I think you are afraid, perhaps, and moved
To wonder whether you should do this yet.
I also am afraid, and yet I know
That wonder is a thing that needs a yes;
Should you step back and let this moment go,
Both you and I will have to live with less.
Please trust my love, as I must trust in yours.
It's strong as steel, as delicate as lace,
Immovable as battered granite shores:
I feel its power and unremitting grace.
So come, my love, and try this love with me;
Let your love speak, and then you will agree.

Copyright: Nicholas Gordon

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Everybody.

You Know The Drill
Click the pics

Coffee & Donuts

Johnmiserable failureKerry

[SAMWolf]

Riders



The surest thing there is is we are riders,
And though none too successful at it, guiders,
Through everything presented, land and tide
And now the very air, of what we ride.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth
But being mounted bareback on the earth?
We can just see the infant up astride,
His small fist buried in the bushy hide.

There is our wildest mount--a headless horse.
But though it runs unbridled off its course,
And all our blandishments would seem defied,
We have ideas yet that we haven't tried.

Robert Frost

Johnmiserable failureKerry

[Soaring Feather]

Morning Sam!!

Interesting poem this morning, you may have sparked my creative juices here, who knows.

Listening to the tunes, good ones. I like "Harden My Heart."

You off today? Some of my kids have to work that's why I am curious.
Thanks for everything Sam. :-)

[snippy_about_it]

Riders. An interesting way to look at this trip we're on. Good music. I liked Falco's Amadeus. It reminds me I liked Tim Hulce in the movie Amadeus. Bet that's one you didn't see.

Good morning.

[Soaring Feather]

Love Whispers

My love whispers in
blue shadow
of secrets soft
in a velvet dream
a murmuring
lost in a sapphire sky
life without you...

bentfeather
Copyright © 07.05.04
All Rights Reserved

[Soaring Feather]

~Don't Hold Back Your Love~
Click the graphic if you wish....

[Old Sarge]

My Tower

My search is over at last, this night,
I found a dwelling that suits me right,
lit by lantern and Luna so bright,
with not a disturbing soul in sight.

To my tower I go, without heavy heart,
a place of my own, a place that's apart,
where I might, in solitude, practice my art,
hiden from eyes, sharp word or cruel dart,

Where I toil, and spin, as I weave verse and song,
free from the ones who have done so much wrong,
A sanctum, a place where I feel I belong,
where a heart that's been wounded can again become strong.

So, gaze up skyward, and what might you see,
in a lonely tower far from starlight and sea?
A man might turn wistful, or a lady might swoon,
as verse and song weave to salve a heart's wound.

(c) 07-05-04 by JSR

[Soaring Feather]

Have I told you of
the days of old
when maidens fair
wore cloaks of gold
and mailed knights
from head to toe
wore silver pounded
and bent to mould
in towers strong to hold
the bonded lovers from the cold

Whose chivalry is not dead
upon ones whole wounded head
and broken heart is left to bleed
under the tower's weed

To the tower scaling high
up through the cloudy sky
there near the stars a respite
in black velvet and diamond shards
light by nights shinning stars
a drama does unfold for the
lonely and the bold.....

bentfeather
07.05.04

[SAMWolf]

Amadeus Bet that's one you didn't see.

Over my dead body. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

Nice poems about "Days of Old"