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Posted by: Camac 24-Jun-2008, 02:52 PM |
Circling gracefully Just out of reach They ply the air O'er Bronte Beach White and Grey Their markings are Their raucous squawk Your nerves do jar They glide and turn In aerial delight Their eyes in constant Searching sight The target marked They arc and plunge The Bombing Run Has now begun. With accuracy Uncannily true The Bombs released In a whitish spew To splatter wettly On those poor few. Amidst the curses And the cries They swoop aloft And gather there Just waiting for The unaware. Camac. |
Posted by: Lady of Avalon 24-Jun-2008, 06:00 PM |
I don't think your talking about the ball game here but the technic of bombing they use to do during WW1 & WW2 and I think in Vietnam and probably in Iraq. This was quite sneaky to drop bombs and dangerous as well. And the effect was extremely devastating. I can imagine under how much adrenaline the pilot must be during this kind of mission. LOA |
Posted by: Camac 24-Jun-2008, 06:11 PM | ||
LOA; My Lady if I may make so bold. Tis not bombers nor pilots I wrote of but Terns, Seagulls, of which the Greater Toronto Area has the largest urban population. Well over a million of the pesky things. Camac. |
Posted by: stoirmeil 24-Jun-2008, 06:29 PM | ||
I love the things. I'd be Seagull and not Stormy if I'd known how to spell the word for them in gaidhlig when I joined this site. It's a nicely crafted poem, and it does justice to a certain inconvenient truth about them. But you know? I've never been "blessed" by the ones I feed, including one that stalled 10 feet over my head and took chunk after chunk of bread that I threw straight up at him. Those yellow eyes looking down at me, and the scream of him! The shivers. In the cold they hit their essence -- two great wings and a cry. I lived down near Brighton Beach years ago, and I would go in winter to give them stale bread that I soaked with the water and oil from canned tuna saved up in a jar. They would mob me, but I tell you nary a poop on my head or shoulders. They know which side of their bread is fish-oiled. |
Posted by: Camac 24-Jun-2008, 06:37 PM | ||||
stoirmeil; Be thankful you have not been blessed. I have on many occasion and believe me its most unpleasant. Here in Ontario we can't even retaliate as they are protected under law. Most frustrating. Camac. |
Posted by: Lady of Avalon 24-Jun-2008, 06:54 PM | ||
Camac, Well then, your poem have two meanings here or maybe I haven't read it carefully. You're right it describes the birds for in the end you talk about the "witish spew" which I interpreted as chemical bombs. So for me there is two meanings to it. I'm sorry about all the birds problems but we destroy all of their natural habitats so there is no place for them anymore then to adapt in cities and bug us. LOA |
Posted by: stoirmeil 24-Jun-2008, 07:13 PM | ||
I love 'em, but I'm not fooled by their ways. They have habitat a-plenty, just about everywhere in the world with a coastline. They like it where we are because we dump so much food for them everywhere! Why battle with a live crab for a meal when there's a mountain of garbage free for the taking? Total opportunists. It's true there's lots of birds that have to fight for a mouthful with shrinking habitats, I'm not minimizing that concern at all. But gulls? Probably in New York anyway they could be added to the Four Eternal Species to make five -- rats, pigeons, roaches, humans and gulls. |
Posted by: Dogshirt 24-Jun-2008, 07:17 PM |
[/QUOTE0 LOA; My Lady if I may make so bold. Tis not bombers nor pilots I wrote of but Terns, Seagulls, of which the Greater Toronto Area has the largest urban population. Well over a million of the pesky things.[QUOTE] Damn rats with feathers!!!!!!!!!!!! We had to eat under cover in basic because when they saw the chow trucks come out to the ranges they would descend by the thousands! If they would have let us practice our "full auto" on them we wouldn't have NEAR the numbers of the damn things!!!!! |
Posted by: Camac 25-Jun-2008, 06:27 AM | ||
Dogshirt; I didn't think my little poem would envoke such reaction. A few years ago here in Toronto at a Blue Jays game a seagull was hit and killed by a baseball. The police went onto the field and arrested the pitcher and he was charged. Needless to say that stirred up the old you know what. Damn birds are a menace but you can't touch them. Camac. |
Posted by: John Clements 25-Jun-2008, 08:46 AM |
I love it! Having fell victim to many “Bombing Runs" during my time. And the two runs that stand out the most are: When I got nailed by a Pigeon. While standing in line, (in my Holey Communion Whites), at Saint Michel’s in Brooklyn, (I thing it was at that point, that God and I got off on the wrong foot.) The second time was a Sea Gull, who was very good at hitting a moving target, because I must have been doing at least sixty on a motorcycle, when he got me. (Hey, did you know that stuff burns you skin!) Keep them coming, JC |
Posted by: stoirmeil 25-Jun-2008, 09:17 AM | ||
When they get their daily rations from a szechuan restaurant dumpster, yeah, it sure does. http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/S/Seagulls.asp Here's a bunch of cartoons about gulls. |
Posted by: Camac 25-Jun-2008, 09:46 AM | ||||
J.C; When I had my sailboat it never failed that right after I scrub the decks down the bombing runs began. That stuff will disolve Gel-Coat in no time so skin is no problem. Camac. |
Posted by: Patch 25-Jun-2008, 04:10 PM |
I live 25 miles from what was once the country's largest man made lake and they know all the fast food restaurants and dumpsters in town. Slàinte, Patch |
Posted by: Lady of Avalon 25-Jun-2008, 04:17 PM |
Camac, If I may be so bold in return of a suggestion here. You should've called the title " Bird droppings, a poem." LOA |
Posted by: Camac 25-Jun-2008, 04:25 PM | ||
LOA; You are propably right but every time I see them they remind me of old war footage of dive bombers circling their target. Camac. |
Posted by: Lady of Avalon 25-Jun-2008, 04:34 PM |
That's why I got so confused!!!! Effect of old age too. |