Bazaar
The nights’ chest opens up -
strings of illusions
rattle in palms
the knowing buyers haggle
for a dream
while the fascinated women
try on
toles of princesses or odalisques.
In the shell of hope
genuine perls are priceless.
Silk labyrinth
of amber and incense,
amulets of shamans hidden in death,
a mirage in golden cases,
the drug of success
paths and passions
unknown potions
scaffold question.
Merchants with epheb faces
skillfully spin shadows,
scarves, dependences, embroideries,
compasses, elders, rings, sapphires,
open
conspicuous roads.
Rubys, gold,
sealed fates
days delirium
forgotten writings
bracelets and silver girdles,
old things,
new objects
disturb the untold air.
The world’s cornice
crunches upon the stalls
heavy stars
cramped into bags
shriek
with undecipherable voices.
Thousands of dead and living worlds
rise to the skies
from eyes
touched by temptation.
Time to quit ribbons, pins, and rubber bands
I don't need them to take a stand
The bracelets cut blood flow to my hands
And the pins just hurt my nipples
Red, Blue, Green, white, Pink, Yellow, black
Show just what causes that I back
The rubber bands, just hurt me jack
And the pins....they hurt my nipples
Donations work and show my support
But, damn those pins, they really hurt
I'll take the makers all to court
Their pins...they hurt my nipples
Most people don't know what they mean
Be it white, or blue or black or green
Wear them all on one side, and you will lean
and those pins..just hurt my nipples
I leave the ribbons home instead
And the bracelets stay beside my bed
The pins go on my hats instead
They done ripped apart my nipples
Clink-clink
Black panther eyes peering
thru the concrete canopy
What do they see in the blood-smoke midnight air ...
safari sound waves shocking,
moving the ghetto leaves
What do the tree leopard tar-pitch, onyx ears hear ...
a white rhino with a little horn tooting
Bars and Stripes liberty hypocrisy
Star Spangled dirge played off-key at the trade fair
Clink-clink
Sea Leviathan white whale with the little blowhole,
sending suffocating sounds
leading down to the burning belly of hell
Muzzled lions and lionesses in the dark cargo hold,
chained to the smell drowns
of fear excrement waist-high in a caged cell
400-year journey on a piss-poor promise of equality —
build the racial Wall higher:
says the Tower barker, spitting in the tiny trumpet
Clink-clink
Gold-plated iron ankle bracelets ... slavery jewelry,
place a bid to the auction buyer
Give the seller a pound of the flesh, free-labor sweat
Clink-clink
Don’t think ... run when you hear this
coming calamity chain-pain sound
Head skin deeper into the safe urban jungle,
until the little horn fades
into muted white noise background
J-ust let the fog fade,
H-aze and mist diminish;
E-vening shadows disappear,
L-et the wind chill vanish.
L-ight early Sunday morn
I-s rising above the horizon;
E-rasing the dark of night, bringing the dusk to oblivion.
C-old raindrops fifth February
A-re nowhere in sight;
S-un has already come
T-o take away the twilight.
R-emembering your birthday is forgetting the woes and frets;
O-pen your eyes and count your eight gold bracelets.
~Friendship Bracelets~
(Shadorma)
Beautiful
Nice friendship bracelets
Colorful
So pretty
I love making them all time
And wear them, they're great!
Folks like them
Many make them too
Some wear them
Some sell them
Many just give them away
To a special friend
Wonderful
Are friendship bracelets
With threads knotted
Made with love
And ready then just to wear
On your very wrist
Just like them
Very much indeed
I believe
They're so cool
Very neat in every way
Not so hard to make
I make them
One, two, three, four, just
Follow steps
All the way
With any colours chosen
And number of threads
They are fun
To wear all the time
They're so nice
They look great
In any color you want
They are just awesome!
All handmade
Make them all with love
So special
A great gift
Some take a long time to make
But all is worthwhile.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2015
May.30.2017
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain-
~Author's Notes :
The " Shadorma " is a Spanish poetic form or style.
~Friendship Bracelets~
(Shadorma)
Beautiful
Nice friendship bracelets
Colorful
So pretty
I love making them all time
And wear them, they're great!
Folks like them
Many make them too
Some wear them
Some sell them
Many just give them away
To a special friend
Wonderful
Are friendship bracelets
With threads knotted
Made with love
And ready then just to wear
On your very wrist
Just like them
Very much indeed
I believe
They're so cool
Very neat in every way
Not so hard to make
I make them
One, two, three, four, just
Follow steps
All the way
With any colours chosen
And number of threads
They are fun
To wear all the time
They're so nice
They look great
In any color you want
They are just awesome!
All handmade
Make them all with love
So special
A great gift
Some take a long time to make
But all is worthwhile.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2015
December.19.2016
~Author's Notes :
The " Shadorma " is a Spanish poetic form or style.
~Friendship Bracelets~
(Shadorma)
Beautiful
Nice friendship bracelets
Colorful
So pretty
I love making them all time
And wear them, they're great!
Folks like them
Many make them too
Some wear them
Some sell them
Many just give them away
To a special friend
Wonderful
Are friendship bracelets
With threads knotted
Made with love
And ready then just to wear
On your very wrist
Just like them
Very much indeed
I believe
They're so cool
Very neat in every way
Not so hard to make
I make them
One, two, three, four, just
Follow steps
All the way
With any colours chosen
And number of threads
They are fun
To wear all the time
They're so nice
They look great
In any color you want
They are just awesome!
All handmade
Make them all with love
So special
A great gift
Some take a long time to make
But all is worthwhile.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2015
October.07.2016
~ Author's Notes:
The " Shadorma " is a poetry form or style.
When I was a teen, an ankle chain
Was given by one ready
To show the world that as a couple,
They were “going steady.”
It often came in gold, with hearts
On which one could engrave
The sweethearts’ names, a token meant
To cherish and to save.
I never had one then but now
My ankle always sports
A bracelet (never made of gold);
I purchase varied sorts.
A few are made of beads and one
Boasts tiny chiming bells.
I buy them for myself
When opportunity compels.
The only signal they give off,
Unlike my teenage years,
Is that the wearer (me!) enjoys
The way each one appears.
~Friendship Bracelets~
(Shadorma)
Beautiful
Nice friendship bracelets
Colorful
So pretty
I love making them all time
And wear them, they're great!
Folks like them
Many make them too
Some wear them
Some sell them
Many just give them away
To a special friend
Wonderful
Are friendship bracelets
With threads knotted
Made with love
And ready then just to wear
On your very wrist
Just like them
Very much indeed
I believe
They're so cool
Very neat in every way
Not so hard to make
I make them
One, two, three, four, just
Follow steps
All the way
With any colours chosen
And number of threads
They are fun
To wear all the time
They're so nice
They look great
In any color you want
They are just awesome!
All handmade
Make them all with love
So special
A great gift
Some take a long time to make
But all is worthwhile.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2015
May.28.2016
~Author's Notes:
The "Shadorma" is a Spanish poetry form or style.
~Friendship Bracelets~
(Shadorma)
Beautiful
Nice friendship bracelets
Colorful
So pretty
I love making them all time
And wear them, they're great!
Folks like them
Many make them too
Some wear them
Some sell them
Many just give them away
To a special friend
Wonderful
Are friendship bracelets
With threads knotted
Made with love
And ready then just to wear
On your very wrist
Just like them
Very much indeed
I believe
They're so cool
Very neat in every way
Not so hard to make
I make them
One, two, three, four, just
Follow steps
All the way
With any colours chosen
And number of threads
They are fun
To wear all the time
They're so nice
They look great
In any color you want
They are just awesome!
All handmade
Make them all with love
So special
A great gift
Some take a long time to make
But all is worthwhile.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2015
October.18.2015
BANGLES, BRACELETS AND SINGS
I guess I have to get used to the little things
not the bangles, bracelets and rings
but the way she puts things in order
my,she must have been an obedient daughter
I guess I have to trade the big for the small
the things only she does so well and all
the things I deem unimportant but to her each bear weight
so i'll continue to let her be captain and i'll still be her mate
nothing about her is overt
and sometimes her words can hurt
but then she does something sweet
I just wish it was a different kind of treat
she knows i'm totally disorganized
at that no one should be surprised
but it could be the smallest thing and she sings her grammy winning song
“hey honey, come over here because you did this all wrong”
she wants things in my room to be just so
but what I want, believe me she's the one to know
so I suppose i'll just sit back and see what providence brings
but it probably won't be bangles, bracelets and rings
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