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| Kia Hayes |
May 2008 |
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A Rishi's Prayer Bliss What would all this Love look like Both of us twinned And intertwined Beneath a willow Tree we slyly, coyly Embrace, touch Tongues in prayer Make love on wet Earth dream rain And rainbows Orgasm to chants Of tree dwellers Weep laugh dance Back into ourselves Remember . Life When nature reveals What is beneath her skirt Watch in awe peacefully. Raja i will hold this breath deep inside placing my navel between the present and eternity a sweet release, a flush a careful word to you inside my head before your ever watchful seeking eyes let the word from my lips be love forgiveness freedom may I offer you a lotus for each tear, wound, sorrow. tonight, with palms upward face content and moon kissed let's return to a time when a silence between the teeth was not a curse, but a blessing. |
The Ceremony Trees for those that survived we gathered your wood to fuel the fire at night our medicine men talked you into revealing your secrets for our survival we sat beneath your fronds and fruits and made wishes we ate earth beneath your roots we were unified then we imitated your stance on one leg we were warriors awaiting a cry, a call we stood grounded in earth reaching to the heavens touching ancestral veils we were kin then in the new land your skin bled too easily our bloods became one the lash of 'ol planters hands marked your silhouette on my back no longer a brother you became but a voyeur to the breaking of bones my body with rope around outstretched neck became a misplaced note in the air a faceless bleeding wind chime. |
 Kia Hayes is a writer and artist currently
living in Japan. She has received literature and writing degrees
from San Francisco State University and Swarthmore College. Originally
from Philadelphia, PA, Kia is currently exploring the world and
the realm of artistic abundance one country, one city, one community
at a time with a pen and paintbrush in hand. Her current projects
include an examination of modern haiku literature and Zen inspired
art. |
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