Any one else here tie their own feshwater flies for trout, salmon etc
If so whats your favourite to tie
For me has to be the bristol hopper.
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Are you caged or flying free? – whose song is sweeter?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The free bird leaps
on the back of the win
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill for the caged bird
sings of freedom
The free bird thinks of another breeze
an the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on distant hill for the caged bird
sings of freedom
sorry – this poem is by Maya Angelou…I inadvertently cut off the end tribute….
How do I tie down a canoe?
I have a Ford Ranger (a small truck) and I am planning on buying a 17′ canoe. I was wondering if anyone knows of a good diagram or description of how I should go about tying it down so I can haul it around to the rivers and lakes and such. I’d prefer that it doesn’t fly off when I’m on the highway. Thanks a bunch! Peace!
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Sixty-Nine Souls ?
(and finally, two worlds collide…………….. )
{Looking like a banshee hovering, eering shrieking}
Darker your room gets, abnormally
Sitting alone, watching tv
One tape left of your sickening glee
‘Bet cha never expected again to see me’
‘You killed me! You did! I was so benign!
My torment for years you ended at nine!
A decade flown by, this unspeakable crime!
I emerge from abyss, it’s your turn this time!’
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‘Hmm, what’s the matter, close your d*mn mouth!’
You afraid of my army brought back from the south?’
(Tortured they were) like me cotton mouthed,
Afraid to fight back as if they weren’t allowed.
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‘Sixty-nine souls that you brought together,
By cleaning up evidence, Ooo, you’re so clever.’
‘You’d never get caught, not you, tch, not ever!
But your ties to the victims weren’t easily severed’
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‘You stupid sick mother, how could you forget!?’
‘All the charms and the trinkets buried under
your shed?’
‘Sarahs gold bracelet and Kims ruby, so red?
Jessys bikinis and hair from my head?’
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‘The police didn’t find them nor did the Feds
H*ll we even forgot till you called up death!’
‘Your moms never watched over you like she said
Ouija calls hades, the sufferable dead!’
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‘Oh, how original, reach for that bat!
Go on, take a swing! You’ll miss, I know that!’
‘We’re not of this world but, from one so vast
Beyond comprehension and here at last!’
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‘Ten years I’ve waited, others many more,
We’ve watched all the others you failed to score,
We still hear their heartbeats, their screams absorbed,
‘Tis you Satans brother all children abhor!’
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‘Why are you backing down? Coward arth thee?
T’was no fear in your eyes when you beat and raped me!’
‘Held down by my neck, forced to my knee!’
‘So weary was I, tender age of three’
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‘So what of the rest?! They chose not to speak!’
‘You had rid them, so young and too weak!
But, pierece what’s left of your heart to back me?’
‘They will and they’ll laugh as you cowar and plead!’
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‘There is no stopping these souls released fresh
To whip and impale your mortal flesh!’
‘To them it’s like they have just passed away, yes!
Stranded in limbo long awaiting this quest.’
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‘Flame now surrounds you, burning off digits
And your precious ‘master’ has found himself rigid’
‘Blood that’s been boiling now spews like a civets
Along with your in-ards a floor of composites’
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‘Your hollowing torso collaspes beneath us,
Vapors that rise from your corpse animus!’
‘Soul to soul your chilling awkwardness,
We capture whats left and toss it to abyss!’
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Sixty-nine souls lost, ten years or more
Now sheild their eyes at brightness galore
Breezes start flowing from wings of reward
Sixty-nine souls sent to live in accord
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How am I suppossed to react to everything after this kiss?
I’m going to start out by saying, I’ve shared many kisses with many different people, so I’m not like asking- “OMG, this kiss was like all others! fkdsjfsdj” and freak out about it. I’m going to call this boy “Joe”. Joe fell inlove with my last June. I had a boyfriend. I two-timed my boyfriend with Joe. Joe didn’t know, nor did my boyfriend. It has been kept that way. We shared one kiss, which was one I truthfully didn’t want to share. It didn’t feel like any sparks were flying. Me and Joe became ill-fully close, then when I broke up with him because I couldn’t take the cheating, he broke all ties with me. I was perfectly okay with that. This past month (August), he texted me. We became close, again. But we never got to see each other. He told me every night how much he loved me, and how he couldn’t bare not seeing me anymore, such and such. Then word got out about us, and he cut all ties, again. This time it took a little longer to get over. But I did. Last Monday, he texted me.
He said he was mad that we got into that “fight.” We became close. He said he was still waiting for “our kiss” to come again. And I honestly didn’t want to kiss him, but I hadn’t planned on seeing him anytime soon. Well, this past Wednesday, it happened. I attended a new youth group, and he was there. During the two hours of class, we didn’t speak. But we secretly held hands on and off. Youth group ended and everybody proceeded outside. A couple of minutes passed by and Joe goes, -”(myname) race me around the building!!” And I knew he stop and kiss me. But I went anyways. And when he kissed me, it took my breath away. It was quick/short, but powerful. And we were holding hands, and then we kissed one last time, and ran back out front. I haven’t spoken to him since. I remember Tuesday night he was texting me from his sisters cellphone because he got his phone taken away. But, it’s now Saturday night.
I don’t know how to react. If I should be worried, and if I should.. should it be about how he reacted to the kiss, or how he hasn’t made any contact? And I cannot talk to any of my close friends about it because he’s one grade younger than us, and as a freshman, I get too much crap for dating an 8th grader. But, he failed kindergarten, and is suppossed to be in our grade, so I don’t worry too much. But I’m still fidgety about all of this. Everytime I think about it, my heart feels like it has butterflies.. not my stomach. I’ve never felt this for anybody. I just.. need to get this out. And get somebody else’s opinon about how to take the no contact, and everything else.
He wouldn’t be trying to get back at me? I didn’t leave him cold.. I broke up with him. He’s the one who left me cold. I still wanted to be his friend, not the other way around. AND I said, he doesn’t know I two-timed him. And I’ve broken up witht he other boyfriend a long time ago.
I didn’t intend to cheat. At all. But my other boyfriend (Ivan) and I were growing apart, so when we grew closer is when I broke up with Joe. Neither one of them know I cheated.