Apropos 4th of July and with that whipping that dead horse of mine, as they have forgotten our War Veterans so the nation are willing to let the "bygones be bygones" but we most remember, we all are collectively part of the guilty of our forefathers, because as time passes and no one raises his or her voice, the silence go on growing but not the memory.
Apropos the 4th of July...like having our birthday party intruding in a home of other people...
In the year of the Lord, 1621
I heard a voice coming down the mountain
full of regret, like a bad river covering wave,
drowning every leaf of prairie green grass
that Great Spirit Manitou to the Nations gave
so all the buffalo herds would grew stronger
and Father Winter could hang from their hair,
like a never ending caresses of northern winds,
with white snow and long, made of ice, threads.
I heard the warning shrieks of many flying haws
full of alarm, like bad echoes from the slaves
that once were free, having unrestricted souls
and no one out there to shackle them with chains,
it wasn’t a birds song to the magic of all life
but more like a tortured ghost screams of pain,
the ones Medicine Man hears when full moon
and talking to him will be the forgotten braves.
I heard the silence inside all Nations tribes drums
freedoms as we knew are now inside a grave
where it fester, not ever to return from dust to dust
but to be an open wound, a foul smelling claim
which pervert the harmony of a peaceful world
from innocent blood extracted by demented men,
I heard my warning own voice dying in the skies,
from a “reservation,” the warning is too late.
Georg, sounds like you should be living in the plains and mountains of America as your write screams of Americana and the people that populated those plains and mountains that remain now as but ghosts of the past.
Your friend, Mark
"God, Slaves & Brothers" is the carved memories of truth where many
have suffered by the hands of ill minded greed of trespass
vile hands of selfishness are unending destructions with no thoughts to innocence of lifes virtue
You Are A True Warrior of Wisdoms Voice
Embraced~Embrassé
Vickie
You are a man of conviction Edvard. And the first line, in this anguished construct, sets a powerful tone for the cries of injustice filtering down from the heights. Humanity (in its arrogant self-centerdness) seems cursed to recycling the same mistakes over and over.
Blessings ...
Reviewed by LadyJtalks LadyJzTalkZone (Reader)
Reviewed on June 25, 2009
It's hard to think what that really was like for them. Thank you for sharing this. Lady J
I have read more about Sioux but this is the most powerful write I ever encountered with. It is coming through the feathers of the eagle itself. thanks george and I must tell you that I have missed your beautiful, well articulated, magestically built, fantastically narrated and gently smithed poetry.
OMG! Is this true that he had these premonitory visions in 1621? Never-the-less, you sent chills through me with this one. I heard every ghostly echo, alarming hawk and voices. This was very effective to the imagination. For some odd reason I am reminded of the scene in Stanley Kubrick's movie version of THE SHINING, where the flood of blood is coming down the hallway toward the viewer. Maybe Wounded Eagle had the shining spoken of in the movie, a way of seeing and hearing things either, past present or future, all of which are a closed loop anyway to repeat with only residual memories to confuse us.
Every sentence in this poem is HEAVENLY BEAUTIFUL, MOST TALENTED!!!!!!!!!!! '...Freedoms as we knew are now inside a grave'------EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva
Your friend, Mark
have suffered by the hands of ill minded greed of trespass
vile hands of selfishness are unending destructions with no thoughts to innocence of lifes virtue
You Are A True Warrior of Wisdoms Voice
Embraced~Embrassé
Vickie
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
but more like a tortured ghost screams of pain"
... the essence of this illustrative poem ..
Be always safe,
Karen
Fee
you engage your reader with every word,and touch our souls!Kudo's
Love,
Eileen
Blessings ...
(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in America, Karen Lynn in Texas. :(
but more like a tortured ghost screams of pain
Truly, truly sad, brother, as is far too much of our human history, and the sad plight of far too many of our valiant vets, today.
We never seem to learn from history, and I sadly doubt we ever will.