ISN: Present
pearlmutt
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Happy birthday! You've made it one year more than I have, and that's something special!
Here's part of Sonia Sanchez's "Present" just for you:
and i chant lullabies
as i ride my past on horseback
tasting the thirst of yesterday tribes
hearing the ancient / black / wooman
me, singing hay-hay-hay-ya-ya-ya
hay-hay-hay-hay-ya-ha-ya
like a slow scent
beneath the sun
and i dance my
creation and my grandmothers gathering
from bondes like great wooden birds
spread their wings
while their long / legged / laughter
stretches the night
and i taste the
seasons of my birth. mangoes. papayas
drink my woman / coconut / milks
stalk the ancient grandfathers
sipping on proud afternoons
walk witha song round my waist
tremble like a new/ born/ child troubled
with new breaths
and my singing
becomes the only sound of a
blue / black / magical woman. walking.
womb ripe. walking. loud with mornings. walking.
making pilgrimage to herself. walking.
Here's part of Sonia Sanchez's "Present" just for you:
and i chant lullabies
as i ride my past on horseback
tasting the thirst of yesterday tribes
hearing the ancient / black / wooman
me, singing hay-hay-hay-ya-ya-ya
hay-hay-hay-hay-ya-ha-ya
like a slow scent
beneath the sun
and i dance my
creation and my grandmothers gathering
from bondes like great wooden birds
spread their wings
while their long / legged / laughter
stretches the night
and i taste the
seasons of my birth. mangoes. papayas
drink my woman / coconut / milks
stalk the ancient grandfathers
sipping on proud afternoons
walk witha song round my waist
tremble like a new/ born/ child troubled
with new breaths
and my singing
becomes the only sound of a
blue / black / magical woman. walking.
womb ripe. walking. loud with mornings. walking.
making pilgrimage to herself. walking.
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Happy Birthday ISN!
I love the peom, thanks pearlmutt, being englightened and pasta nazi!!!!!
(I got the new coldplay album from my ex, and have been listening to it non-stop tonight - it's so relaxing to listen to coldplay)
ps.....I love your sig being enlightened....!!!!
it only makes today worse.
My sig--it's from a short story from Clive Barker's, "Books of Blood". I'm an advid reader of macabre stories and love horror movies and the like and Clive is just amazing to me! He sees humanity in such an honest light and can make you fall in love with so-called "monsters". What's taboo is commonplace and even natural. He makes me want to read because I can feel the stories as they unfold and I hate to have to put them down!