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To: NY Attitude; Lady Jag; MEG33; tomkow6; Lost Dutchman; WayzataJOHNN; GeekDejure; WVJudyInJupiter; ...



Good morning everyone.


A Dream within a dream


Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.


I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?


- Edgar Allan Poe


199 posted on 08/17/2007 7:19:28 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: NY Attitude

MINE!!!!


200 posted on 08/17/2007 7:20:46 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: Soaring Feather

Good Morning,

Ms Feather!

201 posted on 08/17/2007 7:38:19 AM PDT by tomkow6 (........pickin' my nose, bit by bit......)
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To: Soaring Feather

Good morning. Love the graphic and poem. Hope that you are feeling better.


203 posted on 08/17/2007 7:54:33 AM PDT by NY Attitude (You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
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To: Soaring Feather; NY Attitude; Lady Jag; WayzataJOHNN; Seadog Bytes; Lost Dutchman
Ezploring by Joyce Gibson

Happy Friday To The Lair
Hope you are feeling stronger, Soaring Feather.

206 posted on 08/17/2007 9:17:03 AM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Soaring Feather; NY Attitude; MEG33; tomkow6; Lost Dutchman; WayzataJOHNN; GeekDejure; ...


The Chaffinch in the Lion’s den.
 
 
And so by choice,
we built our nest
atop a plastic tree.
Two finches, utilising the bars
of the big cat’s enclosure.
No other predator
would venture past the lion’s tooth or paw.

We flit with ease on our daily commutes.
And oft we rest, and watch the humans,
left to right, right to left.
Dropping sticky lolly papers
Dragged from post to tapiers
Competing for the longest nose
The adults point, the children squint

And yet
before our eggs could hatch,
Simba saw our freedom.
Now the humans came in droves.

This magnified re-enactment
of everyday domestic fare.
The big cat shakes the tree
till the little bird’s no longer there.

Perhaps even a cage of your own choice,
can be envied by those with none.
Then again,
at least we had the key.

Danny Reynolds




212 posted on 08/17/2007 2:27:48 PM PDT by Lady Jag (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: Soaring Feather

Nice! Thanks!!!


255 posted on 08/20/2007 10:29:49 PM PDT by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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