Nomine's Writings

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Poems and short stories as written by Nomine Teaheal.

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Indians

We hunt and play with the herds of buffalo
We have the blessing of the Earth
The White Man comes and our lives are ruined
Our herds are dying because of the railroad
We have lost the blessing of the Earth

Our crops gone dry
Our herds are gone
The White Man make us live on crowded reservations
We change and become like the White Man
We adapt to survive
Our ways are being forgotten
Our children -- too much like the White Man's

I give up I go to the great hunting grounds
Where the herds are gone to
Where the ways are kept
Where the children are Indian
Where we have the blessing of the Earth

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Deaf Ears

No warning, storm breaks
Chaos of air
Moving, and wandering as the heat calls
Strength gone
Rain falls hard
Will evaporated,
Like water off of a lake.
Wants and desires crushed
As the limb of fate falls

The storm leaves,
Taking with it
Casualties and injuries
Dreams lost and forgotten
No survivors from this storm
Truth told, not heard

Thunder fades to distance,
Never gone for good,
The temper of Thor -- uncertain at best,
Lightning strikes more frequent
The beast stirring below
Rain --
Harsh words falling,
Opinions requested,
All encompassing rain

Of emotions shredded,
Faith torn asunder by mad swirling words
Where is the rainbow?
Noah -- flood's started.
Where is your ark?

Cries rise up to deaf heaven
No answer coming

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Love -- the Different Kinds

Love, you can bruise it so easy
Caring and sharing, that's where it starts
The different types of love,
The brotherly love -- that's you to me
No constraints, no ties to bind
You give what you want, nothing more is demanded

Love, it can tear with such force
Rending an individual blind
The familial love, that's hardest to leave
Gone bad at the start, but that's easy to see
It gives with a person starting to grow,
No qualms about sharing the knowledge of life

Love it can form so easily
The love of two lovers, lifebonds full strength
On sight, first sight, and other sights as well
It rips and reforms, it grows and it changes
You give and you take -- it's not a one way street

Love, inspired in many
The love of the country -- the most expensive
It calls men to their death, yet still gives back freedom
I think that this love is the most costly of all
Not all the time, and not all at once
Many are given in defense of their loved ones

Love, forgotten in seconds
The least of the loves this sits on the outskirts of feeling
This love of the unexpected, the strange
I know of this love, I know of its strength
Stronger in some, yet never too much
They want to be daring, these lovers of love

The last is the scariest -- the love of the death
Some find it useful, others to gruesome
They find that this love drives them to dare
To go past their limits -- to exceed their dreams
This is the love that catches us all in the end
This love of death, of oblivion.

The other sure you have to grip
Other loves in order, not to slide back to
This -- the peace that has no beginning, yet will end very soon
I find such peace in the song of love -- Kindness, and caring
Never has stopped, I find the song where the loves originate from
Is where I never want to be again.
The loves, they pull and push in millions of directions
Not able to find one to follow individually,
You try to follow them all.

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A Christmas Wish


Presents every where.
Being torn open, being slipped under
The tree so large that I could climb it
Up to the sky and see
What is it that people sing about
Christmas reindeer knowing how to fly?

Presents over, but I don't see what I wanted
This year I wanted the largest stuffed bear
I ever did see,
It was at a fair and I wanted it.
They won it. I claimed it.
"Wait 'till Christmas you'll see."
Ha.

Christmas eve with all of the people gathered
Around the tree waiting for presents,
Waiting their turn.
Small and medium presents disbursed.
I get a toy truck, a dollhouse, a barbee,
But where is my bear that's what I want
Where is that wonderful large white bear
Won at the fair just for me and my Christmas?

"Dear Lord, please bless mommy, daddy, and
All of my brothers and sisters.
Please let their Christmas wishes be fulfilled.
And Lord, pleas let me get that bear."
"Child, do you not know that to demand something on
Christmas is to have that wish never come true?"
Stunned I slip into bed and dream all night long of that wonderful,
Wonderful, huge, white bear.

Christmas morning, the stockings are stuffed.
Running to mine, I see that there are a few new things to go with
The doll house, the barbee, but still no bear.
What's at the toe?
It feels like paper. I drag it out and wellah!
What is it? The directions to my bear.

Go tho the kitchen, open a cabinet.
I get to the kitchen, but which cabinet needs opening.
There! A paper slip!
Go to your bedroom, open the closet.
I've already looked there! But this time,
It's different. It's there.

Thank you mommy, thank you daddy,
You made my Christmas complete.
I thank you Santa,
I thank you lord,
Now I have my fair won teddy bear,
My huge, white, wonderful, wonderful bear.