August 21, 2012

DISPLACED



DISPLACED



I am a man, a father
Doing his best to simply survive
Feed my family, keep them safe
Most days I wonder how we even stayed alive
That day the men with guns came
and forced down my door
They grabbed hold of my wife
while holding me down with a knife
Raped and tortured her
eventually taking her life
As if that wasn't enough they went for my 14 year old daughter
I will never get her screams out of my head
most days I wish too that I was dead
but how could I save her with the knife at my throat
And you ask me why I decided to get on that boat.


Filthy Untouchable Lost Black Boys
Go back to where you came from!


I am a man of great standing
it is my duty to distribute food, resolve disputes
To Mother Earth we give our prayers
We once roamed this country proud and free
That day I watched your boats sail to our shores
We got written out of your history
You say it is to help me, to assimilate me
But I no longer have any say
You systematically desecrate our sacred lands
Sent us to reservations of your own choosing
Then sell off our home to the highest bidder
You show me pieces of paper
that have no true value to any one but you
And all the while you sing your Anthem
which has absolutely no meaning for me?





I now roam this land
no papers to say who I am
my history gone
the life I knew abruptly stolen in a moment
my only happy memories
are when I remember the sounds of their laughter...
I wish I could go back to where I came from
where I belong.



(c) Teresa / divinia 21st August 2012


SONG USED - ANTHEM WITHOUT NATION by Nitin sawhney


MY SECRET GARDEN (the place only you can reach)




MY  SECRET GARDEN



(the place only you can reach)




How intensely you must burn

for me 

that I can feel your warmth
from all the way down here
 
infusing me

from the tips of my toes
to the sensile lobes
 
all those places only you
will ever reach

as I lay here
In my secret garden.

And as your warmth continues to grow 
condensation converges like a tidal flow 

rising up to the moon
where inhibitions swoon
I slowly begin to remove
layers
 
of resistance

slowly tossing them aside
while basking comfortably in your gaze
and your life giving rays









(c) Teresa / Divinia 21st August 2012
photo taken by me
song used
Lonnie Liston Smith - Garden of Peace



August 20, 2012

ENSHROUDED





ENSHROUDED




They say it's to protect your sexuality
But as your sister I will never see it that way
Will I ever get to see the beauty of your smile?
Or are you taking refuge
so I don't see the despair in your eyes



I see you walking past me on the street
in the oppressive summer heat
I want you to experience  life
where you are no longer concealed
where you are free to dance

Why oh why would any creator
want to enshroud such an exquisite flower?
Your darkened eyes veil the colours of your soul
I want to see you allowed free suffrage
No more draping your quintessence
and intellect in a perpetual prison

You were born a woman
who gave anyone the right
to snuff out your light
when you should
instead shine bright
It's your birthright
Your Liberty


(c) Teresa / Divinia 20th August 2012
i took the picture and edited it using photflexor.
feel free to share.



song used Bliss - Reveal

August 16, 2012

WILL YOU (LET ME) ?

LET ME




I couldn't have stopped myself from
growing in love with you each passing day
any more than a flower 
could stop itself from opening
when kissed by the suns rays

I couldn't have stopped wanting to learn
the secrets of your heart and soul
Any more than I would
abandon my own breath
...you are the one who helps me feel whole


I don't want to simply be your temptation...
I feel we are the key each others salvation
It is You who is tattooed into my memory
So no longer is it a mystery 

 .i.  
am your

POSITIVE.i.TEE

your

REAL-i-TEE


your


DIVIN .i. TEE 


so won't you please 


let me ...


 

© Teresa Palamountain 16th August 2012

song and inspiration taken from : LET ME
by The Floacist


August 15, 2012

HOMING


 HOMING


She was injured and sitting on the ground
If she stayed there she would surely get trampled on
by the bustling, passing crowd,
All of them too busy to look down
All of them completely unaware of her existence.
(Or her suffering)

The only thing I could do was to try and pick her up
and hope that the fright of it wouldn't kill her.
She was lame, dirty, be-ragged, and mite infested.
I placed my hands under her breast
and with a gentle sweep lifted her off the filthy ground.
She didn't resist, she didn't make a sound

We walked through the crowd together
Me and my new friend, like two birds of a feather












Once I had found her a warm spot
in a shredded paper filled box,
I asked her:-

“Why did you fall at my feet?”

She looks at me with one little eye, tilts her head
and looks with the other side...

She answers,

“I am trying to teach you to find your way home”

“But I know how to get home little one” I reply, 
a little bewildered at the statement.

She cooo cooo cooos a few times 
from inside the warm box I have placed her in,
and continues....


“You humans all get swept along in your busy lives,
often failing to appreciate the beauty around you.
Most of you never look to the top of those tallest buildings
those towering Urban Cliff faces where the Stone Spirits keep
a keen look out over your every move”

















A chill moves through my body

“You are so lost in anonymity,
Just another face in a faceless crowd.
You slowly lose your way
surrounding yourselves instead with a false sense of security,
and yet...
at the slightest provocation, or deviation
You lose your heads, and your bearings,
scattering like ants who have felt the impending rains.
You take off in any direction, except the one you need to
in order to reach higher ground so to speak".

I listen intently, but don't ask any questions,
letting the vision fill my mind.

She quietly proceeds...

“We Pigeons think it's rather funny to watch you all from where we sit
perched up so high...it is in fact a constant source of amusement for us.”

She pauses, pre-empting a counter attack from me...
but I sit quietly.

“No matter what you humans do to try to eradicate the ugliness
(and the pigeons)
of your overcrowded cities from existence,
we will always remain here
waiting
for that one person who will stop
look down
and simply ASKS for help.”

A smile forms on the corner of my lips, but I remain solemn,
waiting for her words.

“Like us, you too have an internal magnetic compass
and navigational system within you.
It's always available to you.
No matter where you are in your life
no matter how many wrong turns you may have made
or how lost you may be,
All you need to do is slow down,
stay completely still,
tune in
an listen to the guidance within.
It will help you every single time without fail,
to the answers you seek
to the destiny that is yours”.

“Back to your HOME”
















© Teresa / Divinia 15th August 2012

Inspired by the dream I had this morning of finding an injured pigeon


Music credits:-
opening- Harlem by Coco, steele and Lovebomb
which transitions into
Peaceful Dream by Leon Parker
Video clip complied by me.

July 31, 2012

HEMATITE AND SUGILITE

 

 

Hematite and Sugilite





She was a Rare Messenger,
bequeathed the custody of a great task
Sent to assist humanity
with her vitreous rays of incandescent hope and light,
her job was to remind those
who had hardened themselves against
going forward with their dreams & destiny
that is is never too late
to reclaim their heart’s desire

He was a truly beautiful sight to behold
His cool, smooth exterior seducing all who lay eyes on him...
one would be forgiven for getting lost
in his magnetizing gaze.
Once a prominent resident of Equatorial Sinus Meridiani,
he is a bringer of Love, balance, Peace.
But due to his cold, hard temperament
he became a self imposed extradite
traveling the cosmos in a shower of metallic meteorites

Jupitarian serendipities were always abound
when the Royal Azel was around 
she effortlessly facilitates travel through Astral-dreamscapes.
Brilliant epiphanies would often be found
as she fans the flames of your inner passions fire.
But who will be there when she herself feels a need to reclaim
her own inner dreams and desires?
She is far more fragile that she first appears
Her internalised stresses

slowly

cause her to  

crack and break

He alone has the power to neutralize
the normally strong and powerful Sugilite.
But when she looked into him for answers that night
all she could see were her own weaknesses
reflected back to her
No matter how hard she tried
She could not get past
his persistent reflective shield
or from seeing her own sad needs.

There was simply no hiding anything from him.

He saw what she saw

She realized that the only way
to overcome this recondite type
was to gently hold him in her hands,
allowing her warmth to permeate him.

And as the light shined down on him

he

in turn

reflected it 
for both of them


 

(c) Teresa / Divinia 30th July 2012

photo taken by me.
Hematite and Sugilite



July 7, 2012

D'HASTURA DREAMS

                 D'hastura Dreams            


धतूरा सपने



She is a temperamental bitch
who needs to be handled with the utmost care.
Failure to do so would result in loss of sanity
from which you may never return...

Proceed with consummate respect and caution...





The first thing that allures the unsuspecting observer
is her delicate
pure
white
soft
sensuous skin
which imparts a 
hypnotic
narcotic
scent

The seduction of her aroma is beguiling
as it will undoubtedly
sap the sensibilities of even the strongest of men.

If you further submit
and touch her skin
she will imbue drops of her intoxicating dew
into the very heart and soul of you.

A pentacle of illusions 
she promises



Faith
Charity
Bounty
Equality
Dedication
Generosity
Reciprocity
Appreciation
Groundedness
Responsibility
Determination
     
What she gives, depending on her mood can be anything BUT
She really is a cruel, salacious shrew when she wants to be

Daring any man to try to tame her
she will penetrate the hidden recesses of their being
leading them into the abyss of their darkest fears.

She herself is strongest during the deadly nightshade hours
It is during this time her allys come 
in the guise of sphinx and hawk moths
Offering them her sweet nectar,
which they drink in a frenzied fervour.

But resist the temptation to taste her flesh too soon.
For she preys on uninitiated, unsuspecting fools
who don't know how to handle
the sacred divinity embodied within,

She will trick
deceive
connive
those who are not pure of mind
She can read your intentions.

Pity the unworthy who has an unfortunate encounter with
the D'hastura


Once you enter into her dream like world,
she may never let you return
You will forever remain
in a state of unholy stasis
straddling worlds unseen
places you have never been
communing with beings
no one else can see
forever blind
you will lose your mind

I did warn you
a mistress of kindness
she is not



Unpredictable, Domineering BITCH!




(c) Teresa / Divinia 6th July 2012


last picture taken by me...This specimen was found hanging from my next
door neighbors tree in his front yard.

 
D'hastura

The name Datura, its generic name, is from the Hindu Dhatura
 (dhat=the eternal essence (of God)), which was derived from the Sanskrit name D'hastura
also known as Angels Trumpet, Devils Trumpet,
 Jimson Weed, Devils Weed, Moonflower