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Dragon Fly Love |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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Dragon Fly Love In the garden within the pond a sculpture swirled and angled with grace has rusted. At the top as if artistic afterthought bought it too this coupling was the bright orange body and iridescent wings of a dragon fly. He had danced in circles with the smaller less vibrant female and they had stopped just a moment before in a circle of continuity joined and melded in a perfect harmony on this same place and now he sat frozen his wings outstretched as she released her offering into the pond again and again then flew away to hide against a brown branch her wings closed and silent. He flew in orbit around my head his color like the bright orange fish off the clear waters of Catalina and the sun drenched his rainbow wings as he stopped and hovered for a moment in front of my transfixed watching then in sure and perfect movement he traveled the maze of tall corn stalks dropping behind the lily and the nodding sun flower to appear again over the pond and she did not return her color demure and soft was gone her completion drained into the pond and she was away whispering wings above a different pond perhaps but he stayed all afternoon playing with the breeze coloring the air with his vibrant and I like to think he waited for her. |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
As a trained entomoligist, I must protest any poem that glorifies a bug....bad enough they made a movie with cute little ANTZ! As a poet, however, this is great!!  |
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Denise
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since 1999-08-22
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Indeed it is! Just beautiful, Martie! Denise |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Martie~ 'Some' people might say - No trained entomologist we know and love ! I saw a couple of pesky dragonflies playing around that rusty statue in the pond. Darned things just wouldn't quit till one of 'em went flitting off. Other one stayed around the whole darned day. NO .... Not you ! You 'see' things differently .... indeed ! Thank you for sharing a view from your eyes. LOL at Balladeer !  ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Balladeer--I forgot about your bug feelings when I wrote this...glad you liked the poetry! Thanks Denise for the beautiful! Marge---LOL--you are the greatest! |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
Nice one Martie... very nice I am still having a laugh over Balladeer's buggy problem... wonder what he would do if he is a software developer... and somebody points out that there are several bugs in your program code... I have always liked dragonflies though... Marge, pesky dragonflies, eh? regards, sudhir |
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