Respect My Elder

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Loop de Noose

by James Brown

Why do you call me sir

Am I he

Am I not the one who gives hope

Your seed toils within my soil

Do you not harvest my womb

The fruit I bear pulls heavily against my breast

You have taken my supple bounty, as a child

Have you hidden me in shame

You are not my whore

You cover yourself

As if I would steal the salt from your wound

Scarred and moaning

Mother prays to you

Why do you not return

I lay in wait for your kiss, as a child

Have you left me alone

Father who art not inside me

Take freely of thine love

For you have given birth to me

I crawl from your embrace a savior

Mother, forgive me my nakedness

Given freely to your sword

For I have taken flesh inside, as a child

Have you placed upon me a sacrifice

Still you stand blind before me

Sickened with the knowledge you devour

Quivering as a virgin, willing, yet unable

To rise torn and pleasured in longing

I can offer none to you sir

You are barren

Your eyes searching for light, as a child

Loop de Noose @ Youtube

Encapsulate

by James Brown

I

Will Take

You

Inside

Then

You

Will be

Of

Me

Covered

No one will see

Your faults

Cracks, cuts, burning scars

Bruises... blotched and swollen

Untraceable

Pain

Hidden

For I am

Your shepherd

Shelter

Safe within me

You lie

Until I feel ready

I will protect

You will stay

A shroud

Cold, empty- a heart

Where you can live

To grow weak

Fester

Become soft

In blight

For Me

Encapsulate @ Youtube

Accounting

by James Brown

This is one it came from one

This is two it is for you

This is three it is for me

This is four it is for more

This is five to stay alive

There is past six

They are not sticks

End this foul eyeful

Break the mad cycle

If we teach our children to truly count

Returns will be beyond amount

Accounting @ Youtube

Trash Triptych

The first visual poems that I created are part of a environmentally focused triptych. All three works were inspired by my reading of the Linda Weintraub book “To life! Eco art in pursuit of a sustainable planet”. The works are a question and answer session for me and have allowed me to focus my mind as both an artist and a global citizen. All of the videos are posted on Tenderfoot Visual Poetics @ Youtube