The Wampum Belt

Fire And Smoke

red as searing hot

the flames of desire

fanned by yesterdays thoughts

' collected visions, relived investments '

gone realities in burned debris

beginnings born from empty arms

stirred the fire as ashes waft

warmth friction sparks blazes high

broken branches are bodies spent

gratefully torched the flame subsides

resistant coals of burnished red

reminisce the temperature of last nights fire

spent fire works lay cold and damp

fragments used now used up

burned and gone ashes now gray

in the smoke of lingering ideas

who carries the torch in today's heart?

a matchbook moment to ready the fire

restore the heat of passions desire

quell the flames that still are warm.

Myrtle Thomas

A message from our Grand Sachem...

...today's censorship brought to you by virtue signalling politicians s-elected by the CIA developed "The Hammer" & "Scorecard" vote adjudicating algorithms at Dominion Voting Systems.

It Begins Anew! Kawanio che Keeteru!

Tale of Shackamaxon's elm tree* (retourne)

Every tree has stories like mine

Some are memories fair and sweet

but some have sadness to define

Now hear my stories clear and neat

Some are memories fair and sweet

like the treaty of our dear Penn

who had no idea to cheat

He spread friendship mat for men

But some have sadness to define

as his deed brought hostility

for I saw blood and earth combine

ending the long tranquility

Now hear my stories clear and neat

of how I'm still well protected

but echoes of that war cry still greet

my nights that hear funeral bells

Cliffbell Joanna   

 *In 1683 William Penn entered into a Treaty with Tamanend, a chief of the Lenape tribe under an elm tree in Shackamaxon. The peace lasted only for about 70 years as Penn's Creek Massacre happened in 1755.