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To Reach Beyond. Ojibway poem

Updated on January 27, 2013
The silt of night allows day-sparks begin their shine.
The silt of night allows day-sparks begin their shine. | Source
The setting sun delays the pewter tone of eve only for a  while.
The setting sun delays the pewter tone of eve only for a while. | Source

Lament :


This black night covers swiftly

silts blue and rose,

becomes pewter, obsidian.


Run from the dark!

Nowhere to go!




Super moon of 2011
Super moon of 2011 | Source

Flung particles of day

spark ebony night.

I see round-fire arise.

Its ice-fire is warm;

I am cold, I am so cold.


My eyes burn with watching

through this teardrop night.

The innocent child pours out life to share, and does not yet know...destruction of innocence.
The innocent child pours out life to share, and does not yet know...destruction of innocence. | Source

Transplanted :

I step my days as

stalking stealthy forests.

I walk concrete streets

in moccasioned heart.

I stand a moment on an

architectural patch of green

misted by boy/pitcher

pouring water...

I walk busy trails alone, yet never out of step with time, nor thought.
I walk busy trails alone, yet never out of step with time, nor thought. | Source


my thirsty roots delve,

these - invisible threads -

to inner earth,


entwine new life,


draw deep

the breath of mother.


Then I go.

It is the bits and pieces of responsibility placed in order each at its time, that build the walls of success and roofs of shelter.
It is the bits and pieces of responsibility placed in order each at its time, that build the walls of success and roofs of shelter. | Source

Progression :

Facade upon my face, I sit alone.

Sunshafts stab my thought of home.

Across my desk I lean to warmth,

watch this clock that does not move.

My fingers rustle papers,

as I yearn, and cling

to whishing wind in mountain pine,

those pinon scented hours.


I shall be free again...someday...

.

The mighty treasured eagle knows a world we may not see, until we learn to fly, higher than a mountain. Its natural expertise is formed in a nest of stick, and the soft feathering of its caretaker.
The mighty treasured eagle knows a world we may not see, until we learn to fly, higher than a mountain. Its natural expertise is formed in a nest of stick, and the soft feathering of its caretaker. | Source

In explanation of 'To Reach Beyond'.

With a distant Ojibway Indian heritage, my poem reaches back to a part of history that held hardship, sorrow, and at times injustice. However, amid the progression of Time, societal change, and with rapidly increasing technology; with a personal responsibility of workmanship and success...a heart never forgets the heritage of home.

The engagement of our young minds in constant re-happenings of Nature, those of sorrow and death, some of grandiose beauty, those indelible touches on a heart, all effect life as we walk on unending personal journeys. That interaction of Nature and human mind, so prevalent in an Indian heritage for example, will remain a part of us...forever. On the basis of foundational childhood experiences, the adult molts again and again into the interesting and kinetic being that shall ever be, continually progressing, never ceasing to exist.

Perhaps we all long for some solace from the past. Only as we face our truths of life past and present, can we accept, learn, change, and appreciate treasures that may be ours alone.

A brief glimpse of an Oklahoma treasure.

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