Madness Brings You This (Wananikwe's End)

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Open Poetry #29

Madness Brings You This (Wananikwe's End)

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2003-10-01 12:20 PM

Wananikwe’s dream began the dance
To restore us to this land before they came
Before the disease of red pox
When Buffalo were our brothers,
But it was stolen from him
And lost its power
When he we never name
Crept into the sleep of our people
And stripped bare the tree it grew on.

This was before I caught he we never name
By following him into the nightmare
Of an old Sioux who thought Coyote
Was playing tricks with his wife
While he slept.

Our people held on then
To the motions
But lost all else

Tonight,
I danced Wananike’s dance
And held the bag holding him we never name
High above my head
And ate the dreams he contained

Tomorrow,
The world will change
And the white eyes who have visited
So many tears on us will begin to feel
What it is to war and lose
Or war and win but lose
And a new cycle will begin on the wheel

One that brings the broken circle
Much despair.

I have spoken
And He we never name
Now hunts their sleep

Tell me great fathers
Why is it you cry?

n2dmystic
Member

since 2003-09-27

Posts 253
beyond the doors of perception

1 posted 2003-10-01 12:43 PM

reminiscent of Neil Youngs "Pocahontas." Sadly lovely. Ah ho, cousin

Peace, Joe
in the big MT
seeking the serendipitous magical mysteries of life's ubiquitous twisteries

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2003-10-01 12:47 PM

Ron........An amazing story!

Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

3 posted 2003-10-01 12:48 PM

amazing, indeed!

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2003-10-01 12:49 PM

Ron, as always...you tell it like it is.
Amazing m'friend.
~Hugs~

~ I love your glances meeting mine
across forever or the room ~

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

5 posted 2003-10-01 02:09 PM

Tonight,
I danced Wananike’s dance
And held the bag holding him we never name
High above my head
And ate the dreams he contained

Tomorrow,
The world will change
And the white eyes who have visited
So many tears on us will begin to feel
What it is to war and lose
Or war and win but lose
And a new cycle will begin on the wheel

One that brings the broken circle
Much despair.

I have spoken
And He we never name
Now hunts their sleep

Tell me great fathers
Why is it you cry?
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"Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold."
"So dawn goes down to day ...
Nothing gold can stay."

~Frost~

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