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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

INDIAN OUTLAWS




AHO!!!!!!!!
ME AND MY PEEPS>>>>>>>>>>>>













promenade  onto pow wow grounds

Buffalo -In-His Belly

Wolf friend

Drumming at the college

fancy dance, baby!
Perry Joe with his cute self.....





..you so cute!!!!!.....







FIERCE!!!!!!

turtle shell regalia







Bill

Bill in concert with some of his art



RIP Sweet Garrett, my brother
You are missed and very much loved


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIC8JYpLnUY

Bill Miller singing his late son, Garrett's song After All You Have Done
after Garrett's horrible tragic death. Very emotional and beautiful
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>






Billy and Bear, 
the Michael Jackson pose



The once and future "Booty Queen"
as she called it.....
Lee Lee 



Otherwise known
as
V
V
V


Baby Two Hats
aka
"Little Laughing Pony"
who decided he didn't want to be
"Little Laughing Pony"
anymore.......
when he threw himself down on the dr's office floor
and cried
"But I don't want to be Little Laughing Pony!!!"

later, legend has it that he went on to become the first
and Only child to ever be heard to say in public....

"Nooooooo! I don't wanna go to TOYS R US!!!!!
You can't make me!!!!!"

lol lol
My whole family is just a bunch of Comedians!!!!





Niece and Nephew
the Elvis look-a-like
legacy lives on in at least
one male in every branch 
of the family. These are my sister's two kids.



"You talkin' to me, punk?!"



Our Tribe is made up of all sorts of
characters.............
mystics, shamans, medicine men,
(and women!) singers, dancers, actors, painters, models,
artists, sculptors, comedians, prophets, seers,
preachers, teachers, songwriters and poets.
Some are Mexican, some Hawaiian, some Cherokee,
some Blackfoot, some French, some Spanish,
some Irish, some Scottish, some African, some
mixed with all of the above........
but all.......FAMILY......












Monday, February 10, 2020

We Became Strangers


                                                




 We Became Strangers


If I knew the reasons
I wouldn't be writing this poem
I'd be writing love songs
And publishing them up in a tome

If I knew the wherefores
I'd be fixing them all everyday
If I knew the whys
I'd know how to make your love stay

If I knew the answers
I'd lock all the questions up tight
If I saw this day coming
I'd chain the day up in the night

But I never saw it
And I never questioned your whys
Nor conceded your wherefores
Nor answered your questions with lies

But the day is now here
And I'm watching my life walk away
And I'm begging inside
But my lips have no words left to say

I thought we were lovers
And lovers forever till death
But all of your love died
As you exhaled that love out in your breath

It is my fault, I know that now
Just like I knew it when
You asked me to be true to you
And not look at other men

But I was greedy and I was wrong
And I gave my love away
For I was lonely and I needed you
And you were always away

Then in the process of our lives
Our hearts gave up and cried
And all the sweetness of our love
Just laid down and it died

And now we're strangers just as surely
As though we'd never met
Even though our hearts still feel
And our hearts can't forget

You turn and wave and I wave back
As tears roll down my face
You board the plane and fly away
And leave a lonely place

It's cold here in our empty bed
It's cold inside of me
Why couldn't we learn as we went
Why couldn't our eyes see?

It is too late, it's just too late
I whisper to myself
We've used up all the love we had
And there is no love left

I lie and cry and hate myself
I hate what I've become
I wish I'd had more time with you
To make this house a home

But you are gone now far away
Away from heartache's dangers
And I am here to think about
How lovers became strangers

If only I......I cry out loud
Had heard when your heart would sing
But I never listened and then it stopped
And you took off your ring

Now it's too late, you've lost your song
You'll find some other ears
And she will love you like I could not
While I drown in my tears

In my confusion and my grief
I do not hear the clock
I do not hear a car door slam
I do not hear the knock

And you are there in my doorway
You've set off the alarms
But I don't care for up I fly 
And you take me in your arms

I can't leave you, you say to me
For what would this world be
If you were not here in my life
What good would living be?

My love, my love, I say to you
I pray forgive my sin
And forgive mine you say to me
And we fall in love again

This time we'll do things differently
We vow to one another
And I hear your heart sing out to me
As two strangers become new lovers

Oh, love it is a precious thing
Guard it night and day
Don't let it cry and fade and die
And don't let it walk away

Who knows if it will dare return
To the place it felt alone
Who knows if it will see it's truth
And find it's way back home


©by Voo
January 30, 2019
4:58 a.m.


Monday, February 3, 2020

What Is It?





















What is It?


If love is not love
Then what is it?
How can it exist
If it's not real?

If love is not there
How can you feel it?
And what is a love
That you can't feel?

What is wanting
If you don't want it?
And needing something
That you don't need?

Why is the thing you don't need
So all powerful?
And how does it grow
If you don't plant the seed?

How does the heart decide who it loves?
Does the mind then, not play a part?
All the thoughts in the brain can't conceive
Of the emotions that live in the heart.

The heart is an entity all its own
No one can control it by will
Your mind can demand and command it
But the heart hears and goes it's way, still.

I do not want to love you
I had made no plans, you see
I didn't count on you entwining yourself
Till you became a part of me.

I didn't want to want you 
I didn't need the pain
I had hurt so much from love's cruel touch
And I didn't want to hurt again.

I really tried to run away
When that feeling did approach
I resisted everything I saw in you
That my heart needed the most.

But the heart became my master
And my mind just sighed and left
For it knew that soon my heart would break
And that I'd find myself, bereft.

And so I am and so it did
And love's wounds have cut me deep
As my heart reached out to hold onto
Something it could never keep.

You tell me love cannot be real 
In this place and space and time
Because your own heart does not feel
The love I feel with mine.

And though that might be true for you
That doesn't make it so
Not thinking, I reached my hands to love
And with the same hands, must let it go.

If this love is not love
Then what is it?
How can it exist
If it's not real?

If my love for you
Is not something that's true
Then tell me 
What is this heartbreak I feel?

You can't tell me my mind has imagined
When my mind warned me not to partake
The mind only has one thing in common
With the heart and that's both of them break.

But only love can break a heart
That thing that God gave man
And only He knows the secret to how
Love can heal that heart again.

















by Voo 
July 4, 20019
12:27 a.m.
Independence Day




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