Short Wampum Poems

the quahog clam shell
for chowder and wampum beads
...Iroquois treasure

8/17/2018...

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Adventure’s End

The journey brings back, strings of wampum. 
A belt telling stories, projecting memories.
Moments portrayed in coloured beads.
A summer’s experience, in southern Ontario,
they are the reads in wampum belt beads.
They bring to life, once again, 
so many moments, so many memories.
During these current moments, 
what will be savored from those moments ?

B. J. “A ” 2
October 20th 2014...

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Is there anything to give you that you haven't had before?
all my wampum ,all my seashells,all my furs are on the floor

take these shiny pebbles with you ,they are rare and truly fine
I had kept them for the moment when I hoped to make you mine.

so you choose the distant vision of the strange and foreign shore
on the great ships you are leaving ,I will see you nevermore.

Pocahontas ,lovely maiden,you'll return some day to find
all you really ever needed you have left so far behind....

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