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THE WOLF IS PART OF OUR HERITAGE
THE CREATOR GAVE THEM LIFE
WHAT FEW OF THEM ARE LEFT
HAVE SUCH A SMALL RANGE
OUR BLOOD HAS STAINED THE GROUND
BROTHER WOLF HAS BEEN HUNTED DOWN
WE'VE BEEN HERDED ONTO RESERVATIONS
PENNED IN BY INVISIBLE FENCES
YOU DEFILE THE CREATOR WHO GAVE LIFE
TO THE CREATURES AND THE PEOPLE
ANNHILIATING CERTAIN SPECIES FOR SPACE
FORCING NATIVE SPECIES TO BECOME SQUATTERS
I KNOW WHY BROTHER WOLF HAS SANG TO THE MOON
HE FORESEEN HIS DEMISE SO VERY LONG AGO
WILL HIS HOWLS ONLY ECHO IN OUTER SPACE
WHEN HE NO LONGER HAS A LIVING PLACE
THE TEARS OF THE MOON FALL IN YOUR HANDS
FOR EVERY INJUSTICE IMPOSED UPON NATIVE SPECIES
WHEN THE SUN RAINS DOWN TEARS OF BLOOD RED
YOU WILL KNOW THE WRATH OF THE CREATOR
COPYRIGHT 2011
MOURNING DOVE (D.H.)
Tags: NATIVE AMERICAN INJUSTICES
GET AWAY FROM ME
DON'T LAY YOUR EGGS ON ME
I AM NOT YET DEAD
YOUR OFFSPRING WILL NOT BE FED
FROM THE FLESH OF MY BODY
SLOWLY I'M WORKING MY HANDS FREE
TO CLEAR MORE DIRT OFF OF ME
THERE WILL BE NO BANQUET TODAY
FOR MAGGOTS TO FEAST AWAY
THERE'S NO ROTTING CORPSE IN THIS GRAVE
SEND THE DEATH MOTHS BACK TO HELL
NO ONE HAS RUNG THEIR DINNER BELL
YOU'LL NOT PICK MY CARCASS CLEAN
FOR GOD HAS CHOSEN TO INTERVENE
FOR I WILL NOT DIE THIS DAY
COPYRIGHT 2011
DEBBY HARRIS
*FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW MY STORY; THE HARDEST THING I HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH IS THAT "IF" I HAD DIED IN MY GRAVEL PIT GRAVE...WHAT THE INSECTS WOULD HAVE DONE TO ME. TODAY, WITH THIS POETRY CHALLENGE; I WAS ABLE TO FACE THAT HORROR HEAD ON AND WRITE IT OUT!!!
Tags: SONNETS SATURDAY SOUND
SHE STANDS AMONG HER CLOSEST FRIENDS
AND HAS TEA WITH THEM EACH DAY
SOME SAY I LOOKED LIKE SHIRLEY TEMPLE
WHEN I WAS A YOUNG CHILD
THEY'D DRESS ME IN FANCY DRESSES
AND STYLE MY NATURALLY CURLY HAIR
THEY WANTED ME TO BECOME THEIR DOLL
SO THEY COULD PLAY WITH ME WHEN THEY WANTED TO
THEY TAUGHT ME NOT TO CRY OUT LOUD
THAT JUST WASN'T LADYLIKE AT ALL
I WAS MADE TO KEEP THEIR SECRETS SILENT
THEY USED ALL KINDS OF THREATS AND BRIBES
I WAS TOLD "NO ONE WILL BELIEVE YOU IF YOU TOLD"
AND "YOU'LL BE LOCKED AWAY IN THE NUTHOUSE"
"THE BIBLE SAYS TO HONOR YOUR PARENTS...
AND YOU'LL GO TO HELL IF YOU GET US INTO TROUBLE"
"THE COPS WILL TAKE YOU AWAY FROM YOUR FAMILY"
"THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO BAD LITTLE GIRLS"
THEY TOLD ME "JESUS WANTS US TO DO THIS...
TO TEACH YOU HOW TO BE A WOMAN"
SO I BECAME THEIR DRESSED UP LITTLE DOLL
I LEARNED TO STAY MUTE AND NOT CRY
NOT TO SCREAM AND MAKE ANY NOISE
JUST SIT ON YOUR BED AND BEHAVE YOURSELF
THEY'D SHOW ME OFF TO THEIR FRIENDS
AND THEY LIKED TO PLAY WITH DOLLS TOO
SO DID MY MANY RELATIVES ALSO
I WONDERED DO THEY KNOW WHAT'S BEING DONE TO ME
I WONDERED DID THEY REALLY CARE AT ALL
OR AM I JUST THEIR LITTLE SEX TOY TO AMUSE THEM
FOR YEARS I PLAYED THE ROLE OF A DOLL, AND I
LEARNED TO STAY INSIDE MY PORCELAIN SHELL
REALITY WAS SUCH A HARSH AND VIOLENT WORLD
I WAS BETTER OFF PRETENDING I WAS JUST A TOY
NOW I'M OLDER AND I'M NOBODY'S DOLL ANYMORE
NO ONE TOUCHES ME WITHOUT MY CONSENT
DEBBY THE PORCELAIN DOLL WITH CURLY BLACK HAIR
DRESSED UP IN FANCY DRESSES AND FANCY SHOES
'NEATH MY PORCELAIN EXTERIOR WAS A HUMAN HEART
A HEART THAT WAS NOT A TOY...BUT VERY HUMAN
DOLLS ARE MEANT TO BE SPECIAL IN A GOOD WAY
NOT TO BE USED SEXUALLY FOR GROWN MEN
BY MAKING ME AN OBJECT LIKE A LIVING DOLL
MAYBE THEIR CONSCIENCE DIDN'T BOTHER THEM
COPYRIGHT 2011
DEBBY HARRIS
Tags: POETRY FOR THE ABUSED
HOW MAJESTIC THE REDWOODS STAND
GIANTS TOWERING OVER THE FOREST FLOOR
CREATING A SHADY CANOPY FOR CREATURES
AND A SANCTUARY FOR THOSE WHO DWELL THERE
THEIR TOPS CREATING MASSIVE STEEPLES
REACHING FOR THAT HEAVENLY LIGHT
GOD'S MAJESTIC REDWOOD CATHEDRALS
GRACE US WITH THEIR BEAUTY AND STRENGTH
TESTAMENTS TO BEING STRONG ENOUGH TO BEND
REDWOODS HAVE WEATHERED THRU' MANY STORMS
THEY HAVE SUCH STRONG SURVIVAL INSTINCTS
REACHING FOR THE LIGHT KEEPS THEM GROWING
THE REDWOOD CATHEDRALS CREATE A SANCTUM
FOR THE WILDLIFE AND THE FLORA LIVING THERE
NATURE DEPENDS ON THESE GIANTS TO SHIELD THEM
REDWOODS ARE ONE OF GOD'S GREATEST CREATIONS
COPYRIGHT 2011
DEBBY HARRIS
Tags: FRIDAY BYWAYS WITH BARBARA
 I PUT MY DREAMS AND WISHES ALL IN ONE BUCKETSTORING THEM UP FROM MY CHILDHOOD ON
EACH WISH I HAD...HOWEVER BIG OR SMALL
I SAVED THEM UP FOR JUST THE RIGHT TIME
THEN ONE DAY I RETRIEVED MY OLD BUCKET
I WAS SO SURPRISED AT WHAT I'D FOUND
ALL MY WISHES AND ALL OF MY DREAMS
WERE GONE...THEY LEAKED OUT YEARS AGO
A TEAR FORMED AT THE LOSS OF MY DREAMS
WITH MY HEAD HUNG DOWN I BEGAN TO CRY
MY SECRET DREAMS AND WISHES WERE NO MORE
FOR THEY HAD LEAKED OUT UPON THE GROUND
I TURNED AROUND SLOWLY TO SET UPON A BENCH
TIS' THEN I NOTICED A COLORFUL ZIGZAGGED PATH
LITTLE DID I KNOW I HAD WATERED ALL MY DREAMS
FOR FLOWERS BLOOMED WHERE I HAD BEEN
I REALIZED ALL WAS NOT LOST AFTER ALL...
MY HOLEY BUCKET HAD WATERED MY DREAM SEEDS
THEY WERE JUST WAITING THERE TO BE DISCOVERED
SO WHEN I WAS READY...I COULD PICK THEM ONE BY ONE
COPYRIGHT 2011
DEBBY HARRIS
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . . and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a..."
And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,and share it with the children of today?
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool,
and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
How many of these do you remember?
Candy cigarettes, Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside, Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles, Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes,
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers, Newsreels before the movie.
P.F. Fliers
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.
Peashooters, Howdy Dowdy, Hi-Fi's, 45 RPM records, 78 RPM records!
Green Stamps!
Metal ice cubes trays with levers, Mimeograph paper,
Beanie and Cecil, Roller-skate keys, Cork pop guns.
Drive ins, Studebakers. Washtub wringers, The Fuller Brush Man, Reel-To-Reel tape recorders.
Tinkertoys, Erector Sets, The Fort Apache Play Set,
Lincoln Logs.
15 cent McDonald hamburgers, 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum, Penny candy, Jiffy Pop popcorn.
25 cent a gallon gasoline!
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
I DIDN'T WRITE THIS. I FOUND IT ON A FORUM WRITE. I DON'T WANT TO TAKE CREDIT FOR SOMETHING I DIDN'T WRITE. I JUST PASSED IT ON BECAUSE I THOUGHT Y'ALL WOULD REMEMBER THESE THINGS.
DEBBY
Tags: TRIPS DOWN MEMORY LANE
ISN'T THIS THE TRUTH?
DID YOU KNOW THAT FARTS ARE FAMOUS? THEY ARE. EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT FARTS ARE. THE WORD ITSELF CONJURES UP A SMILE OR A LAUGH. THEY CAN MAKE THE ROOM FILLED WITH LAUGHTER; OR CLEAR IT OUT IN A HURRY. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO GET RID OF THOSE UNWANTED GUESTS IN YOUR HOUSE? LOL
MY NAME IS FART...
BUT YOU MAY KNOW ME AS...
WHIPPER SNAPPER
CHEESE CUTTER
CRACKIN THE WHIP
FLATULENT FLORENCE
FARTY MARTY
THE VOICE FROM BEYOND
I HAVE ALOT OF NAMES, BUT MY MAIDEN NAME IS FART. WHY I'M AS FAMOUS AS KID ROCK..."EVERYBODY KNOWS MY NAME."
I'M A MASTER OF DISGUISE. I CAN BE STEALTHY AND SNEAK UP ON YOU WITHOUT MAKING A SOUND; BUT YOU WILL KNOW I'M THERE EVENTUALLY. I CAN MIMIC A FROG, A CREAKY DOOR, A FOGHORN, EVEN A POPCORN POPPER. SOMETIMES, I'M NOT FEELING GOOD AND THEN YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WITH ME. IF I SOUND LIKE A SNEEZE; BETTER CHECK YOUR BRITCHES. IF I HAVE THE STOMACH FLU; I CAN GET INCONTINENT. EITHER WAY; I AM ALWAYS JUST WAITING TO INTRODUCE MYSELF TO YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS. SEE YOU SOON.
C 2011
DEBBY HARRIS
IF A FATHER SHOWS LOVE IN THE HOME
CHILDREN WILL SEE LOVE IN ACTION
IF A FATHER IS ABUSIVE AND DISRESPECTFUL
THE MALE CHILDREN MAY EMULATE HIM
WHILE THE FEMALES PICK MEN LIKE THEIR FATHERS
A FATHER IS A BOYS FIRST ROLE MODEL
HE NEEDS TO LEARN HOW TO TREAT WOMEN
A DADDY IS A GIRLS VERY FIRST LOVE
SHE WILL MEASURE MEN BY HIS ACTIONS
A GOOD FATHER IS ONE WHO TREATS HIS FAMILY RIGHT
HE TEACHES THEM BY EXAMPLE OF HOW HE ACTS
LOVE AND RESPECT SET THE FOUNDATION
OF BRINGING UP HEALTHY CHILDREN
COPYRIGHT 2011
DEBBY HARRIS
THERE'S ALWAYS A WAY TO...
HELP SOMEONE ELSE
IT DOESN'T COST A DIME...
JUST MOMENTS OF YOUR TIME
ONE LITTLE ACT OF KINDNESS...
GOES SUCH A LONG WAY
IF ANIMALS CAN BE GIVING...
WHY DO WE ACT SELFISH
WE MAY NEED HELP OURSELVES SOMEDAY...
THE ONE THAT HELPS YOU...
MAY BE THE ONE YOU TURNED AWAY
COPYRIGHT 2011
DEBBY HARRIS
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