Greetings!

 

Her Majesty has asked me to be the contact, on point person for the opening ceremonies this year at gulf wars. We were wondering if anyone else would like to get up at the Crack of dawn to help ready their horses and to be there for the procession.

 

She believes they will be using site horses but that might change at the last min. so work will have to be done around the owners of the horses.

--
Erin/ Naqid/ Elf

On the morning they left
we said goodbye
filled with sadness
for the absence to come.

Inside the palanquins
on the camels' backs
I saw their faces beautiful as moons
behind veils of golden cloth.

Beneath the veils
tears crept like scorpions
over the fragrant roses
of their cheeks.

These scorpions do not harm
the cheek they mark.
They save their sting
for the heart of the sorrowful lover.

Ibn Jakh (11th century)
(translated by Emilio Garcia Gomez & Cola
)