He wore a leather bomber jacket and a redskin hat and would engage with people where ever he was at. He wore two hearing aids that often whistled like a kettle and as he aged out in our three homes he did settle. A world war II vet he served in the navy and once out he married and they had three babies. Dad had been a lawyer and eventually became a judge. He was not a snooty person and seldom held a grudge. Dad was always most particular about where he chose to eat, only frequenting four star restaurants with the more elite.
At church his voice would bellow as he sang out every hymn. Most days he'd burst into a song if he felt the whim. Dad had an Irish temper but wasn't easily provoked, in order to get it simmering it had to be stoked.
Even in his older years he was still a flirt and would turn his attention to a pretty face or leggy skirt. Dad had a strong work ethic and worked til age 75 and would probably still be working now if he was alive.
At age 81 as he lay counting sheep, my dad gently slipped away, dying peacefully in his sleep. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL THOSE GREAT FATHERS OUT THERE
Categories:
redskin, dad,
Form: Light Verse
word math
words swirling
mind bath
time
twirling
into wrath
fire from clouds
light my cigarette
here
i
am
found
billowing smoke
bound by regrets
wagon wheels turning
my redskin bullet chased
my blood felt burning
my pain
is
erased
they chase me
through tee-pee dreams
i
am
never
found
running
this isn't
what
it may seem
they scalp me
with their teeth
try an drag me
from underneath
my arrows sever their ties
i
am
blowing fire
back at the skies
my fingertips are
experienced
with wrath
creating
an
art'd
word bath
?
...
..
.
Categories:
redskin, 12th grade, art,
Form: Ode
Googled and Bamboozled
When she saw my eyes they both were googled
Causing her to be dumfounded and bamboozled
And then ended up becoming completely baffled
When off all my entire brains had been raffled.
How big of a hint do you ever have to receive?
Before belligerent mind soon starts to believe
After all the drums by many were drumming
Conclusion arrived at was Indians are coming.
Those are really the Cleveland ones that is
More prejudice baseball won't ever miss
Instead what looked like lions in a den
Turned out to be a Washington Redskin.
What to should emblems be the equivalent
And on all team uniforms is officially meant
That they sew on and put on proper display
A reference to Indian no way Jose' today.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Categories:
redskin, allegory, analogy, prejudice,
Form: Couplet
my name is izzy
izikiel
i am a man
er...maybe not
not yet at least
not legally, at least
i am paranoid
admittably,yes
and from the heart
i hate that
i am not bright
not for my age
17
18 soon
but for now 17
i am a brave
a redskin
one of the three fires
patowatomi
if thats spelled right
warm welcome outside
cold on the inside
kinda like a freezer
i write odd poetry
kinda like this
kinda like...me
my name is izzy
izikiel
i am a man
i write poetry...
just like my mother
Categories:
redskin, hello, simple,
Form: I do not know?
The Adventure of a Timid Man.
The narrow dirt road I followed today was nothing more than a bumpy track,
on both sides ugly trees and thorny, evergreen bushes I was trapped in
the wilderness of enraged nature. Sun and deep shadows, god knows what
lurked in them. Prickly silence, the noise of the scooter unnerved me,
switched off the clamour; opaque calm. As a child when we played cowboys
and Indians I was forever the redskin; trust me to side with losers.
Tractor tracks which meant the road was leading somewhere. I heard grunts
in the bushes maybe it was a boar and if it charged I had no defense, not even
a folding knife. Whistled a Dixie tune, spoke loudly, the echo of my fear ran
up and down the road. I drove on ignoring the imps that grabbed at my shirt
trying to hold me back. And there I saw it the asphalted main road, now I had
nothing to fear but cars and crazy drivers.
Categories:
redskin, computer-internet, funny, nature, peace,
Form: Blank verse
Atlantis
> Atlantis broke into Islands three
> Back in ancient antiquity
> The redskin Nations emigrated
> Mound builders on the Mississippi, generated
>
> Some ***** people now in Africa
> Have the very dark reddish hue
> All around the great Atlantic
> Pyramids the Aztecs too.
>
> Atlantis once more was a sinking
> By boat they went to nations new
> Fought ancient Greeks, who were a thinking
> The Dark side nation’s violence grew
>
> The final cataclysm occured
> Rock from heaven drowned the land
> Atlantic full of mud , Solon iinferred
> Then came Egypyt ‘s, outpost grand
>
> Sons of the law of one god
> Built great pyramid, yes they knew
> Artisans put the blocks together
> Perfect cut with lines so true
>
> Ra Ta and Mercury the Architect......(was Ra the sun god.&.Mercury/Thoth)
> Built this monument of the ages
> Engineering lasting almost perfect..........(Kunkel says water pump Pyramid)
> Forgotten, Alexandria's library burned the pages
(burnt by Romans last time?)
>Don Johnson
Categories:
redskin, adventuredark, dark,
Form: Rhyme