I am Chief Running Words
I play music I heard from the birds
I listen to tree whispers and keep my gaze skyward
I delight in moon starry nights and celebrate
The morning blowing it smoke from my pipe
I walk barefoot across my tribal plain
I color my body with war paint
So when you strike me I feel no pain
I hold my hands out to catch cold raindrops
I see the beauty of life in glacier park rocks
I am Chief Running Words
I get messages from hawk birds
I am Chief Running Words - I can heal you
if you take the time to be touched by my words
They killed my family
I return to my tee pee to see the atrocity of dead bodies
I walk around the grounds and hear no more human sounds
I beat my chest in duress
I cry no tears but grab my weapon and my arrow spears
Chief Running Words has no fear
when I am done I will return to the one and one
I am just as much Native American as I am African
Can’t take a man and half him
Can’t tell a man what he is and deny what is part of him
Nature and energy that create in him a Shaman
Under your laws you should adds this one to your list of sins
They want to kill me and kill me again
because I am half African and Indian
By DubbleX
SUBMISSION POLICY
Poetry (any form or style) and Micro or Flash Fictions wanted for an anthology on SMOKE. Not just the black clouds rising from the five-alarm fire next door, or the billowing plumes of smoke warning us of a forest fire, or the emissions from factory smoke stacks, apartment house incinerators, and crematoriums, smoke rings rise from cigarettes, smoke pours out of headshops, pipe shops & cigar stores--see that purple haze rising over the fields of poppies and marijuana we just planted--we've used it to communicate via smoke signals and skywriting, to cover our tracks and disappear with and without mirrors, combat the enemy on and off the battlefield, kill bugs, flavor food, cure illness, declare peace treaties, and fragrance our homes. Got the idea? Release it onto the page.
Guidelines: Submit up to three poems/micro fictions or two flash fictions at a time with a fascinating bio of 35 words or less, not just limited to publication credits, copy/pasted in the body of an e-mail (no attachments, please) to roxy533 at yahoo dot com & violetwrites at nyc dot rr dot com. We will also entertain up to six one-liners or 2 short stand up routines at time. Previously published work is OK as long as authors have retained the copyright, which will be returned to them after publication. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. If your work is accepted elsewhere, and you still have obtained rights to republish, just let us know where and we'll be happy to acknowledge the other publication.
If you do not receive a response from us within a month of your submission considered it rejected and feel free to submit again. Due to the volume of submissions we cannot respond to each and every individual submission. Selection for the on-line edition are made on a ongoing basis as we receive your submissions. However, final selections for the print edition will made after the October 31st deadline. (In otherwords not everything that made the cut for the online edition will appear in print.) Please do not query. When in doubt, send the submission to roxy533 at yahoo dot com & violetwrites at nyc dot rr dot com.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
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