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The Dragonflies'Lair~Thread LI
The Poets of The Lair
| April 2, 2008
| Soaring Feather
Posted on 04/02/2008 6:05:12 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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My Dragon Fly and Me
If I could be a Dragon Fly and wing my way through the sky I would never be shy just me and my Dragon Fly!
By moonlight we ride the wind chase the comets tail for fun by day we would hide from the sun our fragile wings would come undone
On darkest nights we would use fireflies as our guide we would dip and we would glide through the heavens open wide and scatter diamonds in the night sky my Dragon Fly and me...
And we would wing past our lovers silent in the night... to kiss their face in our flight much to their surprise and delight my Dragon Fly and me in sight...
Such a view do we share away up here in the air of breezes soft through our hair my Dragon Fly and me a pair...
bentfeather© 2002
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Music/Entertainment; Poetry
KEYWORDS: dragonflies; glengaulway; haiku; poetry
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To: Lady Jag
The thunderstorms here lately have been much less damaging here than in communities near here...Rain is most welcome.
1,881
posted on
04/28/2008 11:41:23 AM PDT
by
MEG33
(God Bless Our Military)
To: tomkow6
It pretty hot here in SO CAL we still got those wildfires YEAH TOMKOW which one of your voices drank all Russia vodka I am not blaming you only what about your voices last time you were on Canteen you have 100 voices inside you
Now it 1,000 even Dr Phil said BOY you have some serious issues BOY
1,882
posted on
04/28/2008 11:44:56 AM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: Soaring Feather; Lady Jag; All
ALL day? Jeez...it's Monday ALL day?
1,883
posted on
04/28/2008 11:48:07 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Happy Moneday!
Do you still have snow on the ground?
1,884
posted on
04/28/2008 12:01:56 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
( I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
To: MEG33
Our topsoil needed the rain, otherwise we're good for water since it rained all winter.
I hope you get yours.
1,885
posted on
04/28/2008 12:18:18 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
( I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
To: Soaring Feather; tomkow6; NY Attitude; WayzataJOHNN; Seadog Bytes; Kathy in Alaska; MEG33; ...
Feeling more powerful this afternoon....
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The Female of the Species |
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When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When Nag, the wayside cobra, hears the careless foot of man, He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can, But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail - For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws, They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws - 'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale - For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say, For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away; But when hunter meets with husband, each confirms the others tale - The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Man, a bear in most relations, worm and savage otherwise, Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise; Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.
Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low, To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe. Mirth obscene diverts his anger; Doubt and Pity oft perplex Him in dealing with an issue - to the scandal of the Sex!
But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same, And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.
She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast May not deal in doubt or pity - must not swerve for fact or jest. These be purely male diversions - not in these her honor dwells - She, the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else!
She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate; And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.
She is wedded to convictions - in default of grosser ties; Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him, who denies! He will meet no cool discussion, but the instant, white-hot wild Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.
Unprovoked and awful charges - even so the she-bear fights; Speech that drips, corrodes and poisons - even so the cobra bites; Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw, And the victim writhes with anguish - like the Jesuit with the squaw!
So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands To some God of abstract justice - which no woman understands.
And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him Must command but may not govern; shall enthrall but not enslave him. And She knows, because She warns him and Her instincts never fail, That the female of Her species is more deadly than the male!
Rudyard Kipling
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1,886
posted on
04/28/2008 12:36:36 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
( I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
To: Lady Jag
Wonderful choice!
Feeling like the wind is blowing at my back
the trip to the lab provided a perfect score in tack
no office calls for me until the June bug shows
then Doctor and the Pro-Time test will surely steal the show
of health for Summer fun and frivolities
of walking in the fields and gathering
Queen Anne’s Lace and Ox Eye Daisy’s
a bouquet for the table
and night sounds of busy creatures
crawling in the fields,
or flitting through the dusky night
lightening through their tails.
Soaring Feather
To: NY Attitude
1,888
posted on
04/28/2008 1:01:41 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
( I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
To: Soaring Feather
Delightful! It merrily prances along!
1,889
posted on
04/28/2008 1:21:00 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
( I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
To: Lady Jag
Thank You.
I have found my singing voice and I am delighted!
To: tomkow6
Aren’t the Cubs a half game behind the CARDINALS???
1,891
posted on
04/28/2008 1:52:09 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/peoples-information-support-team/ -JOIN US!-We're PIST!)
To: StarCMC
1,892
posted on
04/28/2008 2:14:34 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(...............CHANGE We Can Believe............My "VOICES"!....)
To: Soaring Feather
1,893
posted on
04/28/2008 2:46:29 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
( I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
To: Lady Jag
Are you Mother Nature?
Nah, I just help her out a bit.
To: tomkow6
Hey, Sailor, where is my WOO HOO for this mornings grand capture of the biggie?
To: Soaring Feather; tomkow6
I have to do everything myself. Sheesh.
To: Lady Jag; tomkow6; monkapotamus; All
DID you guys hear former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters perform in concert during concert he release infamous PIG with Vote for Osmara Barek
1,897
posted on
04/28/2008 3:32:10 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: tomkow6; Soaring Feather; All
Also another report from BBC wire now being confirmed perhaps Robert Mubgee regime is about come to end if his party lost a majority in Zimbawee parliment
I watching CNN Not by choice LOL! and look like anti Semitric former US president Jimmy Carter going be on Larry King show tonight
Yeah Larry need ratings
1,898
posted on
04/28/2008 3:33:51 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: tomkow6; Soaring Feather; All
1,899
posted on
04/28/2008 3:34:21 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: tomkow6; Soaring Feather; All
More breaking news off Sky news report that maybe Austira cops knew about terrible crime of daughter who father sire children with her according to Austria newspaper
OH YUK!
1,900
posted on
04/28/2008 3:35:30 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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