The Dragonflies'Lair~Thread XLVI

Poets of The Dragonflies'Lair | January 04,2008 | Soaring Feather

[Soaring Feather]

She requested a Carrot Cake, her MIL baked an Apple pie, and home made Danish Sweet Rolls. Yummy.

[SevenofNine]

Sometime NY Liars make me laugh OUT LOUD
Well report from BBC wire Indoensia is on high alert because of upcoming funeal of former Dictaor Buhto

Also another report off BBC wire witnesses claim they see 8-800 people get whack in this weekend violnece in Keyna

[Soaring Feather]

Good night everyone.

[SevenofNine]

Hey guys for people who suffering from cold weather like SO CAL Chicago and other thank God you are not Chinese I been surfing Xinurea news wire

15,000 people are stranded at Benijgu airport because of snow and power outrage LOL!

And 100 people just been confirm dead because of snow and cold

You know LUV and me goof on Chinese population control this is ridiculous

[SevenofNine]

Well Xinurea news wire claim Iran has produce 100 lbs of new uranisum for one of their nuke plant

[WayzataJOHNN]

“How did you like St. Thomas?? Had you been there before?”

Yes, love it. St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands is beautiful. It is the shopping point for the entire Caribbean!

It is a protectorate of the U.S., and English is the language, and thought they drive on the left, almost all the cars have left hand drive. The people are friendly and easy going, and if a company were to set up there, they’d get more tax breaks and welcome then they could believe. They also would be the MAJOR employer. The island economy is at present, based on tourists, and an industrial effort could really be a power player there. International shipping comes right by the island every day, and production supply and product shipping worldwide are possible. The island has to buy its petroleum products from Porte Rico who gets it from Venezuela. They have to pay $4.00 a gallon, really crimps the life there, sad since there is an island in the Virgin Islands that sits on a huge amount of oil they can’t tap!

[SevenofNine]

Well report from Kydto news wire claim that SOuth Korea has name some new DUDE to be PM

Also Kydto news wire also reporting both Hong Kong Chinese and Japanese market are down thanks to world economic forums freaking over our US stilmute package

[WayzataJOHNN]

Poem #2

As The Sun Falls

Verdant is the deep green of the island
Right on down to the blue sounding sea
Falling down the mountains, as it truly be
As lush as from hilltop to surf and sand

Music with a lively beat, floats in the breeze
And women walk with a rhythm to their hips
As softly rolling, as some ancient sailing ship
And men watch and smile, a wink, a squeeze

Night falls but life goes on, in a softer sweet fury
As everyone’s moods and manners change to the beat
And dancers become the music down to their feet
And life slows to something deep without the hurry

Out on the waters ships swing at anchor in the bays
And each is lighted with lanterns like a sea born star
We walk the beach and holding hands, head for the bar
taste the nightlife, as alive to us as we to all it says

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning everyone.


The First Snow-Fall
By James Russell Lowell, Brahmin Poet


The snow had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.


Every pine and fir and hemlock
Wore ermine too dear for an earl,
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree
Was ridged inch deep with pearl.


From sheds new-roofed with Carrara
Came Chanticleer's muffled crow,
The stiff rails softened to swan's-down,
And still fluttered down the snow.


I stood and watched by the window
The noiseless work of the sky,
And the sudden flurries of snowbirds,
Like brown leaves whirling by.


I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn
Where a little headstone stood;
How the flakes were folding it gently,
As did robins the babes in the wood.


Up spoke our own little Mabel,
Saying, "Father, who makes it snow?"
And I told of the good All-Father
Who cares for us here below.


Again I looked at the snow-fall,
And thought of the leaden sky
That arched o'er our first great sorrow,
When that mound was heaped so high.


I remembered the gradual patience
That fell from that cloud like snow,
Flake by flake, healing and hiding
The scar that renewed our woe.


And again to the child I whispered,
"The snow that husheth all,
Darling, the merciful Father
Alone can make it fall!"


Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her:
And she, kissing back, could not know
That my kiss was given to her sister,
Folded close under deepening snow.


Source: The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, By James Lowell, 1882

[Soaring Feather]

Well report from Kydto news wire claim that SOuth Korea has name some new DUDE to be PM

Wonder if this one is worse than the Chia Pet.

[MEG33]

Very touching ..lovely poem..Good morning, Soaring Feather.

[tomkow6]

Good morning,

Ms Feather!

[tomkow6]

Good morning,

Fellow Lardites!!!

[tomkow6]

Afternoon, TT!

[tomkow6]

Afternoon, Allegra!

[tomkow6]

Morning, Meg!

[WayzataJOHNN]

So that’s what a Cow-a-Socki looks like!?!

[tomkow6]

Morning, Johnn!

Yeah, that's the new 2008 model. Note the dual horns...

[WayzataJOHNN]

Beautiful poem, and thought provoking!

I’m at the coffee shop, and kicking back and working on the next book already, (got the idea on the ship and sort of framed it in already.)

How are you this beautiful morning?
Where’s Trude and the Breakfast?

[WayzataJOHNN]

I bet it really runs on some of that ‘Cow Flatulence’ Gore is worked up over!