Will the time come
When I can just trust
Process
Flow
Creation
Use the paint
The little on decried
- Yes – the future needs just that tone
Turquoise/jewel/sky
Each stroke
A winding thread
To those we help become
To those who make/take up
Warriorifying
Our artists
Knowers
Makers
And whisperers of divine.
Gonna wait for savior?
Trust hard
Cause they made the cost high
Us
We lived on road sides
Unhuman
Outside
Aint got much
That they can see the value of
-mamisiwin-
I/we gotta learn the old words
Listen to our blood
Use what today gives us
Be ok
That there are futures
We can’t even dream
But we can quip
With paints and brushes and hope.
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
Friday, July 29, 2022
Wandering with Maskwa (future)
I see our future
Germinating
Teaching us
Gathering the good
We will get you home
Bring you back
To paint this town
In new stories
Of ceremonies
Teachings to hear our
“we walked uphill to cabinet both ways” stories
To write your own
Let us braid together
Our best
Let us
Shelter
Support
Sustain
To grow
To become
Our truth
Will move us
Germinating
Teaching us
Gathering the good
We will get you home
Bring you back
To paint this town
In new stories
Of ceremonies
Teachings to hear our
“we walked uphill to cabinet both ways” stories
To write your own
Let us braid together
Our best
Let us
Shelter
Support
Sustain
To grow
To become
Our truth
Will move us
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
Wandering with Maskwa (Consulting the River)
Who would imagine
A year ago
Observed by water
We dreamed
We weighted
Then we lived it
On meeting again
My heart knew you
By any name
You make me better
Remind me
That easy sentiment
Don’t always satisfy
That a six month smile
Can sustain
Even when those waters froze.
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
A year ago
Observed by water
We dreamed
We weighted
Then we lived it
On meeting again
My heart knew you
By any name
You make me better
Remind me
That easy sentiment
Don’t always satisfy
That a six month smile
Can sustain
Even when those waters froze.
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
Wandering with Maskwa (Going Home)
Those photos
Still make me tear
You are so happy
So fully truly you
When you need
We will let you go
Your path
-we won’t cry-
You have seeds to nurture
Teachers to meet
I learn from you everyday
We/I will remember
When it is months
Maybe years
Maybe lifetimes.
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
Still make me tear
You are so happy
So fully truly you
When you need
We will let you go
Your path
-we won’t cry-
You have seeds to nurture
Teachers to meet
I learn from you everyday
We/I will remember
When it is months
Maybe years
Maybe lifetimes.
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
To J
Morning Meditation to Ginny my cat who misses her beagle brother
I see myself in you my four footed sister
You don’t let yourself be held back
Even when hard
You push your limits
Travel far
Defend us passionately
You learned from your brother
Did not see a stupid little annoyance
But another with gifts to share
New ways to learn
Different limits
And saw not that he was different
Scary
Wrong
But saw heart to heart
Saw family
Saw love
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
You don’t let yourself be held back
Even when hard
You push your limits
Travel far
Defend us passionately
You learned from your brother
Did not see a stupid little annoyance
But another with gifts to share
New ways to learn
Different limits
And saw not that he was different
Scary
Wrong
But saw heart to heart
Saw family
Saw love
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
A half and half and half prophet
Again
A half and half and half prophet*
Delivers a message
Between sips of latte
Maybe
That’s why
My book is full of serious words
Underlined
Repeated page over page
“tourism”
“Nose”
“J-beaver”
These stories I don’t know yet
Sent sentries
To warn of knowledge to come.
Tatawa
We connect
An Uber ride
A cafe
A tv show that tells your truths
More right
Than any my tongue could carry.
A woman empowered
Life of exquisite fullness
Mind and/or body
To child or not
All paths valid
To destroy the worlds of man
or
Raise economies of care
To explore
Space and ocean
Now and tomorrow
To revel in body
Light of dark
That 43 minutes showed
Why you can’t ever love me
I transformed a 9 tail fox
That other me
Only you carry that
Never meant to be
I can’t stay grave
With possibility denied
I am a new thing
A half and half and half
Receiver of messages
Explorer of possibilities.
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
* The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture (metismuseum.ca)
A half and half and half prophet*
Delivers a message
Between sips of latte
Maybe
That’s why
My book is full of serious words
Underlined
Repeated page over page
“tourism”
“Nose”
“J-beaver”
These stories I don’t know yet
Sent sentries
To warn of knowledge to come.
Tatawa
We connect
An Uber ride
A cafe
A tv show that tells your truths
More right
Than any my tongue could carry.
A woman empowered
Life of exquisite fullness
Mind and/or body
To child or not
All paths valid
To destroy the worlds of man
or
Raise economies of care
To explore
Space and ocean
Now and tomorrow
To revel in body
Light of dark
That 43 minutes showed
Why you can’t ever love me
I transformed a 9 tail fox
That other me
Never meant to be
I can’t stay grave
With possibility denied
I am a new thing
A half and half and half
Receiver of messages
Explorer of possibilities.
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
* The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture (metismuseum.ca)
For all the times...
“I wish I could make it so you could see yourself…I am full to the head of unsayable things I don’t want to forget” Lyric from Unison by Gang of Youths
You seduced us
Brought us to ceremony
Sent us off
To move as we must
To treat each other well
The front row
Forehead to forehead
You told
(y)our/all truths
Sometimes
The lies kept us safe
Encased in “passing bodies”
No stories!
Who am I?
Book sinner
Stoooooopid
-if you are always wrong – why not win on speed?
This poem wants…
“The call them the milleniuums”
Another generation bears scars on gentle skin
Literally my kids
Catholic school –
Well I got bruises
“parental contact discouraged”
So I made one last call
And my kid left school at 14
Just like their Mooshum
A Métis man “in care” from 3
All the times you unticked that box (Métis)
When you told us
Child services – they got some good #%@)#
FUCK YOU!
Head Dr
Where my suit
Name tag
Nice shoes
Meant my kid got help
You seduced us
Brought us to ceremony
Sent us off
To move as we must
To treat each other well
The front row
Forehead to forehead
You told
(y)our/all truths
Sometimes
The lies kept us safe
Encased in “passing bodies”
No stories!
Who am I?
Book sinner
Stoooooopid
-if you are always wrong – why not win on speed?
This poem wants…
“The call them the milleniuums”
Another generation bears scars on gentle skin
Literally my kids
Catholic school –
Well I got bruises
“parental contact discouraged”
So I made one last call
And my kid left school at 14
Just like their Mooshum
A Métis man “in care” from 3
All the times you unticked that box (Métis)
When you told us
Child services – they got some good #%@)#
FUCK YOU!
Head Dr
Where my suit
Name tag
Nice shoes
Meant my kid got help
– that time
“Health care” that leaves us dead
Scared to call for help
When I screamed in pain
The nurse looked away
Until later
When she asked again
“How much do you drink?”
Gotta reclaim
Cause I want to live in that moment of ceremony
Not the lies or pain
Alive in that moment of art life truth
Unafraid of those unsayable things
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
“Health care” that leaves us dead
Scared to call for help
When I screamed in pain
The nurse looked away
Until later
When she asked again
“How much do you drink?”
Gotta reclaim
Cause I want to live in that moment of ceremony
Not the lies or pain
Alive in that moment of art life truth
Unafraid of those unsayable things
Pehiw – Wandering 2022
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