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Category: Storytelling
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You didn’t see
When that fire blew by, you just drove on, you were just leaving the place and in walked that superstar, and you just opened the door for her, she smiled and said ,”Thanks”, you didn’t pay any mind, as the cameras’ flashed and the people rushed her, you were sleeping, when that train wrecked, just…
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Wah-ZE-yah-tah (North)
From the top of the circle, sits him, he of cold, ice, snow, and air. He sneezes and we freeze, he coughs and it’s a blizzard, he cries and we shovel our way to the street. He knows that his presence is important to us, that he helps the earth rest and rejuvenate. Melting fast…
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Knock, Knock
A dark gloom descends upon the pre-dawns’ entrance, a rumbling roars in my tummy, someone texted me, as someone knocks on my door, neither one made much sense, at this hour, to me, gloom has no invitation and sleep resists the beckoning, the pressure cooker barks alarm in the kitchen below, silly dances alone on…
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Who flies by
The one who flew by, saw below, took the prayers being sent, stop to leave, some of what was needed, looked at what was being done, saw what had been done, and gave what was required to change that and sang me this song, “You have been crying, your tears will fill the waterways of…
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Rainy Day
Rain does sweep over the walls with a pounding gush and expounding periodically this weeping presence. Rainwater loosely free to be what the elements determine. So, the one about to receive this moist blessing, dons a hat, and becomes a part of the routine. But, forgets a umbrella and his laptop, so back he tracks…
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Tillie
Was the first member of my dakota family that i met, in was in 1967, Minneapolis, Minnesota at the apartment of my foster brother, Stanley Rocks’ Mother, Ann, she told me about my Mother dying and how big of a family, i had, then, i went off to war, years later, she wanted to give…
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Cloudy knows where I Live!
My Father name is First Cloud, he died a few years back, he didn’t know i was born, my Mother never told him, but, i meet him after her passing, he said, he always wanted a child and that all my children would have made my Mother proud! The lowest clouds, the ones closet to…
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The Quiet Turtle Society-The Conclusion
Strong Buffalo the Dakota Poet talks to the Society, tells them of his recent imprisonment, informs them all that he wanted to go, he needed to meet the Fat Man personally, for to the Dakota, face to face is the real connection of spirits, that life is circular, that death is part of the circle…
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The Quiet Turtle Society-Strong Buffalo/Homecoming
As, Thomas ate his quarter pounder, he kept thinking, it ain’t healthy, but, so hungry! The FBI agents who took him out of the cuban confinement, told him, that a plane was waiting, that he was to fly into MSP airport and they would take him home, they were ordered to take him and release…
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The Quiet Turtle Society-Strong Buffalo/Found
The old man remained so calm, so relaxed, thought the army guard, he hasn’t eaten in days, has no one, been interrogated for hours on end, that fat guy, he is the worst, wow, what kind of questions he asked, like are you angry that Leonard Peltier in prison this long? Did you order the…