VISITATION RIGHTS - Senryu

VISITATION RIGHTS

(a senryu)

You willingly gave

up your rights the day that you

walked out of our lives

How lucky were we

to not go through the system

you were judge and jury

(c) Teresa / Divinia 2nd September 2012

SKIN

Skin

I  feel the smoothness 
of your Earth Brown skin

melting under  me  as I  begin to play...

 Fingers running felicitously


We begin flowing synchronously

 

I feel your tautness begin to transpire

into a rhythm of desire

My breathing becomes attuned

 as your pulsations move through 

I  become one with you

Touching


Skin on Skin


I feel the ecstasy rise

hypnotized 

by your vibe

I close my eyes 

kneeling before you 

while  our quiet storm collides

I hear the Ancestors chanting 

from deep inside



as we  watch the yellow moon rise 

Now completely full with your rhythm

I need nothing more...

I am satisfied

(c) Teresa / Divinia 28th August 2012
drum nude by opium fire
song used - Healing Chant by the Neville Brothers
from their 1989 Album Yellow Moon 
clip compiled by me 

MOON BATHING

MOON BATHING

A temptingly luxurious

constellate of soft

milky white skin

merges breezily with

clandestine pink within

Sensuous aromas mingle

under moon light

propelling our senses

to empyrean heights

(c) Teresa / Divinia 23rd August 2012

(c) Picture taken by me

Title of poem belongs to Tom Middleton, 

taken from the song I've used

 

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

AUSTRALIAS NATIONAL ANTHEM

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

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

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 16^th August 2012

song and inspiration taken from : LET ME
by The Floacist