The In-Between

The In-Between

In between that world and this
We feel the secret, the unknown bliss
We seek to find what can't be found
Here as our feet walk on this ground.

We know there's more than what we see
And what has been is what will be
So we reach out with tangible arms
And strive to touch those intangible charms.

And they elude us but sometimes give
Such high strange mysteries to the lives we live
And though we're frightened at what may show
We travel deeper for we want to know.

Not all may see, not all may hear
The things we do with a gifted ear
They may never see or know what we mean
By existing both here and in The-In-Between.

©by Voo Shining Stone
Jan 27, 2020
8:13 p.m.

The Giving and The Taking of the Heart

The Giving and the

                          Taking of the Heart

I gave him my heart, not thinking

About what the man might do

I only knew I had to do it

Not if he was faithful and true.

I handed him all that I had

I put it in his hand

I didn't think of danger

Didn't have a plan.

I only knew I loved him

Only knew I cared

Didn't know if he loved me back

Or if he'd stay right there.

I took a chance I'd never taken

I gambled with my fate

I ran headlong into his arms

I couldn't seem to wait.

Because he seemed so special

So wonderful and good

I didn't want to walk away

I didn't think I could.

So I put my heart at great risk

Not knowing what he'd do

I held my breath and waited

To see if my dreams came true.

Then he smiled a smile big as the world 

Which gave me quite a start

And he said I have something for you, too

And he handed me his heart.

And I stood there in the sunlight

As love mended my wounded soul

While he cradled my heart like a diamond

And I held his like the purest of gold.

I guess sometimes you must take a chance

Like I did that fateful day

For why have a heart all full of love

If you can't give that love away?

Only the love of another

Be it woman, child or man

Can fill your heart and empty it

And fill it once again.

For love must be replenished

By a source that's not your own

As you fill up another's heart

Before all their love is gone.

Supply and demand is the way that it is

And that lesson you learn at life's start

You  must give out your love if you want some love back

For that's the way that the Lord made the heart.

©by Voo

Oct 9, 2019

7:07 p.m.

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......

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.

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.
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