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Sedona, your land speaks to my soul In ancient mystery and renewal Activation, in eternal celebration Echoing in times near and far, forevermore Vast red hues anchors into my memory, My spirit Activation, the sacred birth of my timeless, Rebirth. Cradling me, basked in the bliss of eternal Love My divine mission on this earth Sings, unlocking, regenerating, The DNA coded in my bones As I release and let go of what no longer serves me, I reclaim what was always mine You embrace me in protection Beneath the stars, Glimmering in the midnight sky Joy radiates throughout me and into the hearts of my Star brothers and sisters I remember you, as you remember me, Every moment in Sedona Cherished, in Loving memory.
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Dec 8, 2025
Dec 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM UTC
An Ancestral Remembrance
We're mammals; Walking, talking, thinking. We're animals. Upright, articulable, sophisticated. Yet, we pay little respect, Fret more then reflect; For an ancestor we all share And yet share more in neglect! What long ways to have come To have gone so little distance; To be ever farther than before, But to have done really so very little! I talk about our planet! I talk about all those who inhabit! It's a rotten mess that's been made. Each blemish, every scar, all the stains Marked & soaked into each & every page! Many great recessions & regressions, Degradations & destructions- That's what we offer everything. But I digress from the apathy, For it is better thought to think of change. What beauty nature must have been, Even understanding the difficulty Of life prior to our modernity. Years & years ago, hundreds & thousands, When natural life was more abundant. "When we were slaves to nature!" "When all was bountiful & liberated!" "When we were aching & starving!" "When all was free & meritable!" It's all perspective, But are they all really mutually exclusive? Like the popular philosophies of a moment Fluctuating with the pass of time. From good to bad, Like stored food going spoiled. From growth to decay, Like rust on metal forming. Yet, it's just change. Yet, those are just oddities. Everyday examples Because of our lifestyles. Those things exhibited being indicative Of perspective on the nature of "change." Good, bad. It's by an individual basis. Balance between any individual & its environment Is essential for that individual to maintain. At the same time, being a product of its environment, To what magnitude, if any, does any individual actually have a responsibility to? It's by an individual basis? But every species is a part of, In one way or another, A collective of that species. Their effects, how they affect, Can be counted cumulative. But it all sure is beautiful.
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Apr 20, 2025
Apr 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM UTC
Thanks L.U.C.A.
We're mammals; Walking, talking, thinking. We're animals. Upright, articulable, sophisticated. Yet, we pay little respect, Fret more then reflect; For an ancestor we all share And yet share more in neglect! What long ways to have come To have gone so little distance; To be ever farther than before, But to have done really so very little! I talk about our planet! I talk about all those who inhabit! It's a rotten mess that's been made. Each blemish, every scar, all the stains Marked & soaked into each & every page! Many great recessions & regressions, Degradations & destructions- That's what we offer everything. But I digress from the apathy, For it is better thought to think of change. What beauty nature must have been, Even understanding the difficulty Of life prior to our modernity. Years & years ago, hundreds & thousands, When natural life was more abundant. "When we were slaves to nature!" "When all was bountiful & liberated!" "When we were aching & starving!" "When all was free & meritable!" It's all perspective, But are they all really mutually exclusive? Like the popular philosophies of a moment Fluctuating with the pass of time. From good to bad, Like stored food going spoiled. From growth to decay, Like rust on metal forming. Yet, it's just change. Yet, those are just oddities. Everyday examples Because of our lifestyles. Those things exhibited being indicative Of perspective on the nature of "change." Good, bad. It's by an individual basis. Balance between any individual & its environment Is essential for that individual to maintain. At the same time, being a product of its environment, To what magnitude, if any, does any individual actually have a responsibility to? It's by an individual basis? But every species is a part of, In one way or another, A collective of that species. Their effects, how they affect, Can be counted cumulative. But it all sure is beautiful.
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The dead are still wriggling. I thought I'd stamped hard enough Twisted my heel long enough Been vicious enough To render their meddling Null in their void Enough to create them sterile In their bequest To bestow a double portion Of pain. I thought they were dead And gone. I was wrong.
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Oct 20, 2024
Oct 20, 2024 at 2:43 PM UTC
The dead
Child of the soil, they call themselves Yet they walk on a pedestal so high Their feet has no dust I’m the child of the soil They say with voices causing tremors on the ground Yet Their feet are buried on the cushion of clouds I’m the child of the soil They say chanting they’re clan names Yet they know not the ground their great parents lay I’m the child of the soil Yet they are not rooted in it Easily tossed around and misplaced they lay The ground lays barren The amazons once envied their homeland Now, they are just a wasteland Yet, they are children of the soil
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Jun 12, 2023
Jun 12, 2023 at 6:06 AM UTC
Lost Grains
For someone it can be a noise Drum beats tremble with space metals split the bunch of leather beats A typhoon of disorder Staying wrapped in the middle of a striking hurricane Feeling the sound shouting to me My heart beats It absorbs those beats It shakes my head touching my spirit This music long ago came from shamans When the music was a human ceremony Mysterious rhythms What are those numbers in the elastic organic rhythms? What are those symbols of the perception of the world? Followed long roads and formed through time passing from people to people with their own body rhythms Their clouds Their rains Their thunders Their earth Transformed in the orchestra of percussion And the story of their nature descends to me I hear my ancestors their messages I meet them and now I play Their and our rhythms of the Korean percussion
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Jun 28, 2020
Jun 28, 2020 at 8:54 AM UTC
Korean percussion
If I had known what it would cost I wouldn’t have tried to cut myself up so much Wouldn’t have molded myself into the American dream Looked down at my grandmother’s footprint instead Formed and deformed A part of me I should have held on tighter To her Dream
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Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 10:03 AM UTC
Herstory
Spent years growing up In a dilema, holding a cup Of tea, Which i shared with a man Sitting next to me Endless words to let out But busy as i scout My soul, as she lives inside Gods gifts, my pride Like horcruxes reside No! Not from sins But from wins of He The gaze locks on the rays Tempts me to find ways To my heart; where my old lady Scolds me being lazy I smile! memories brought back As today I walk on this track You! If you could hear me too I am a mother now! Mother of two
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Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 7:30 AM UTC
A mother!!
Do you hear that calm, frugal breeze? The synced patter cadence off the road? What was once a hunt for your feast In a time not so long ago Over the distant horizon, the rhythm takes your morning run Within sight is a lonesome deer Within scent is a stillborne fear Exalted whispers of the ancestors: "Exhaust it to death, predators."
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Apr 27, 2018
Apr 27, 2018 at 2:41 PM UTC
Ancestral Hunt
Even In The Evil I See Ancestor's Blood Of Purity.
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Feb 22, 2018
Feb 22, 2018 at 10:05 PM UTC
Shade
Ann Cestor lives alone, No relatives has she, So it seems Iron-ic-ally, That she is a root … Without a tree!
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Jul 3, 2017
Jul 3, 2017 at 3:07 PM UTC
Family Tree
Mama Kamuma dances the old dance steps She dances the dance of the ancestor gods and beneath her the Earth's drum beat a rumble of mountains and rocks the force of rivers, mudslides, and avalanches Kamuma dances the Earth Mother dance Kamuma dances the Earth alive               1997
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Feb 11, 2017
Feb 11, 2017 at 6:56 AM UTC
Mama Kamuma
We are the lonely children Who get lost in the wood Yet find peace in each other We are the lonely children Bonded by our ancestors To carry the light of the garden Yet we fell and heard our beats Bonded by our ancestors We live in dull ghostly towns Crowned in the dark alleys Yet we stomp and the world shakes We live in full ghostly towns You play with the cobra fearless I run in fear , my fate, my dear Yet you can encase me from danger You play with the cobra fearless In the gust of the wind I love you Take my words as the solid truth Yet circumstance let us queue In the gust of the wind I love you
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May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016 at 2:46 AM UTC
Bonded by a Cobra
I did a little research work And you know I'm glad to say I found out about my history On ancestry.ca I typed my name and there it was A family tree of sorts With leaves appearing eveywhere My family and their warts There were places on the listing That I had never been And the names of the all the people Well, most....I'd never seen My grandad married seven times My nanny married four My mum was not my mother And my dad...was out the door The leaves kept showing up there Beside each and every name I sat there for eight hours I was really glad I came England, Scotland, Middle East Nevada and Wales Too! It seemed that all my family Moved when the rent was due I had cousins in Zimbabwe I had cousins in Peru They were scattered all through Italy There were some in China too. I learned things that I never knew Tales of family and their kids I  learned of all their countries And of all the things they did Four hundred names in all I saw And each name had a leaf I didn't know we were that big It was truly beyond belief The pictures too were something else People, places now long gone There were photos too of Mexico And my dear old Uncle Juan Tomorrow, though I  will sit down And I'll do this all again But this time I will make **** sure That I don't forget the "n".
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Apr 28, 2012
Apr 28, 2012 at 2:21 PM UTC
My Family History...(a spelling lesson)
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there were people who believed in laughter, joy and love. They believed in many deities, but the most important to them was their Great Mother Goddess. They believed in and lived with the powers of Nature. They reveled in the Wind, the Rain, the Snow and the Sunlight. They marveled at and revered the changing of the seasons and saw therein great excitement and wisdom to be gained. They knew that if they tended, cared for and loved the Earth, in return She would provide for, care for and love them. They saw that all around them the world was filled with Life, much as their own but in many different and wonderful forms. They felt the life of the flowers, plants and trees and respected them for that life essence. They looked about and observed all the many types of animals and saw that they were kindred to them and loved them. They felt and observed the great Love of the Goddess all about them and knew kinship with the Moon. They were practioners of The Old Religion, worshipers of The Great Mother!
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 10:15 PM UTC
Old Religion
*I know who I am, But not who or what I was. Why can't I recall?*
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May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014 at 6:35 PM UTC
Relay