[Colonel_Flagg]

Good morning, all! Had out of town visitors last weekend so was AFK for the Fourth festivities. I hope you all had a great weekend!

An Invocation
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

O if it's true that in the night,
When rest the living in their havens
And liquid rays of lunar light
Glide down on tombstones from the heavens,
O if it's true that still and bare
Are then the graves until aurora --
I call the shade, I wait for Laura:
To me, my friend, appear, appear!

Beloved shadow, come to me
As at our parting -- wintry, ashen
In your last minutes' agony;
Emerge in any form or fashion:
A distant star across the sphere,
A gentle sound, a puff of air or
The most appalling wraith of terror,
I care not how: appear, appear!..

I call you -- not to speak my scorn
Of people whose ill-fated malice
Has killed my friend, and not to learn
The secrets of the nether-palace,
And not because a doubt may tear
My heart at times... but as I suffer,
I want to say that still I love her,
That still I'm yours: appear, appear!

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, my dear Colonel. Nice to have friends and company over the holidays.

What an interesting poem this morning. I know you have a job to do and probably a thousand pings to look over. :-) Some of those pings are from me. LOL

[snippy_about_it]

Interesting poetry this morning Colonel. Hope you had a great fourth.