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JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

0 posted 2012-05-24 04:46 PM

Photo by: Earl Nottingham, TPWD Chief Photographer (Texas Parks and Wild Life)

Wale Knot

Morning,
alive with a fresh gale,
warbling sounds,
life motions active
with bulrush
sprinkled thin
and being tossed about
by the warm wind…

Past mornings
memory only.
So seems the gale
then, was pleasant to canoe
tied at camp moorings…

Those times past
never to be seen
again…
as once Wompeague worn,
at times traded
by native brown skin.
A posteriori
now as analysis
celebrated by currency
of a once-was heritage…

Their squaw’s hair
braided to wale knot,
today abandoned
from this Palo Duro Canyon.
Its southern plains Indians
for history only,
now,
a burial plot…

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Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2012-05-24 05:54 PM

Nicely done, JL. Heritage and history and the death of a race is never easy to write about or to read. You did a "whale" of a job.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

2 posted 2012-05-24 06:29 PM

Thanks, Mr. JP.
I got the inspiration from Lori's:
"The Knot of Naught", and a few other thing-a-ma gigs....

I appreciate the reply.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

3 posted 2012-05-24 06:39 PM

This statment brings painfilled tears
"for history only,
now,
a burial plot…"
It breaks my heart that it is so...your writing brings this poem to life...*HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

4 posted 2012-05-24 07:04 PM

Thank you, Startime1955.
I am glad you took time to read and reply.
I really appreciate it.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

5 posted 2012-06-04 02:13 PM

I've often said I need to visit... now I hope that visit is soon!!! *S* Beautiful, poignant write!!

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2012-06-08 03:17 PM

Fine writing, JL.
Ida

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

7 posted 2012-06-09 04:25 AM

Amazing picture. Even more amazing the power of your words. I can feel the sting. /Exasperated sigh here.

Michael

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