Fifty-word challenge: Field
The Field
Rain-washed golden coloured field grass cannot wipe the memory;
dead,
bloodied bodies
strewn across the valley of the Sangre de Cristos
Arrows embedded in the unbeating hearts of the Kachada.
Indian spirits continue to visit, crying for revenge and sucking energy from the residents. Cursed.
Peace does not exist here.
Word count: 50
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Heart felt stuff... A travesty... Luckily the likes of this will never happen again. We are learning from history... Unfortunately, this is just not true... It is happening right now around the world... Man's inhumanity to man continues, fuelled by greed and hatred.. really powerful freewrite @eaglespirit
thank you so much for your kind comment, i feel your sweet sincerity and it is most appreciated.
yes it continues and this was a 50 word, not a freewrite but it did end up being a freewrite for me with
a couple of edits. :)
blessings
eagle
You are more than welcome @eaglespirit and sorry for the typo, I meant fiftywords..
no worries, im
used to doing freewrite too :)
Very powerful and disturbing.
Please, what is the meaning of Kachada?
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Whoa that is a super cool GIF! :)
i like powerful and many people say that about my writing. i thank you very much for that and i'm surprised you didn't google it. LOL!!!
Kachada is Hopi for white man. Oopsie :p
better to use native language for some things than what can be construed as racism. that
was not the intention. flow of writing kind of thing. Hahahaahah :)
I'm not offended.
Thank you for the explanation! :D
BTW, the GIF links to my Library... ;)
Sure anytime, I was afraid to tap dat link! Ya just never know!? Hee Hee :p
This was really powerful and intense. You did a great job using 50 words and I am sure you have a lot to say on this topic and could have used 5000 of them :) Thank you for sharing this with us 💚
Ah My Petra felt it and sorry for the intensity, but I'm glad someone feels it. Thank you for reading and your sincerity, I really appreciate it so much.
I definitely do have at least 5k words to say and you read that one right on point.
hugs,
eagle
All the atrocities against Native Americans is horrific to contemplate. But people must never forget these things, thanks for sharing!
Atrocious, travesty, horrific, there are not enough adjectives to describe the "noble" gesture the white man offered the natives of the US. The sad thing is they still do not honor their treaties or accords. I'm embarrassed, humiliated, indebted, still not enough adjectives. This was their land and we came here and started putting up fences? Just imagine, meditate on how bewildered and perplexed they must have been. In short order the fences turned in to killing and declaration the new found land was theirs and they had a right to it, that God had ordained them with some sort of special privilege... (sigh) not coming down on you it's just striking how so little has really changed since my fellow white brethren raped this land and continue to do so today. Such silly foolishness. If we wanted to be free would should have learned from them. They were free until we arrived. Instead, we built fences out of fear, that fear progressed to atrocities and far beyond, and the story continues as we proudly beat our chest and proclaim our civility, and how evolved we have become... Poppy cock.
i feel like crying now after reading this, very well said. hugs, eagle
Sorry. Didn't mean to rant in your comments but @friendly-fenix tripped a trigger and I had to get my thought out of my head or risk going further down the rabbit hole of insanity. I have a few good friends back home that are Cherokee, Acoma, Seminole, I miss my native friends harassing me about my blonde hair and such. It's a pet peeve of mine the pius attitude certain people have towards things. It's laughable only to relieve the angst.
My philosophy teacher drilled it in to my head to pay attention to word choice and intention. Like the mention of the trail of tears as noble, that the white man was being generous in giving them the bloody red land I came from. Ha, deplorable. Should have been called the trail of rape, bloodshed, and thievalry. It's all so sad.
When I was in highschool I got sit sit out back of a friend of mines house in a full blown tee-pee where grandpa lived. They had to put him out back because the square walls inside caused him distress and made him depressed. Many times Chapa and I would go out back and smoke pipe with grandpa and listen to the stories he would tell as he would break out in native song and chant to yah ho i Ho or yeaweh. Those were blessed times by sacred spirits in the morning fog, and for me always that damned coyote laughing at me with that evil grin...
yeah weird, i still can't get over the term "red land" meanwhile you are spilling your guts and yeah FF meant no harm. i do not feel you think that, but ppl who have lived it and know the pain of others and have seen it, well they feel it differently.
i totally get it, and i see that many do not when i get emotional and want to express my passion, empathy and sort of a flippant way of expressing "oh that again."
it kind of hurts to a certain extent but then again it is almost expected.
i totally feel what you are saying and OMG i love the pipe, song and coyote laughing/evil grin! how i would love and hear the stories you have learned.
it is time for me to go and hear some more stories myself ... i miss them so very much.
love,
eagle
ps. no worries on ranting, since i do not feel you really rant. not like others who are negative, you are Light and so very positive. you shine! :)
Stole a few pics from Oklahoma's red dirt. I'm telling you that land is red.
Red and more red.
And no Im in agreement with @friendly-fenix in it being an atrocity. Peace !
Wow that certainly is RED, and lovely. It almost looks like Brazil. I am so sad I never saw this part of Oklahoma only Oklahoma City and surrounding area. Thank you for sharing and glad you agree. Peace!
oh shoot! i did not reply to this comment i must have missed it .. so sorry! :(
yes the atrocities were bad and thank you for understanding messages as "not to forget."
love you for that,
eagle
Thanks @eaglespirit!
I appreciate that. =)
but of course, you are becoming one of my FAVS :)
Thank you!!! =)
You too! Keep on steeming!
keep steemin FF! keep steemin!!
Thanks I will try!!! =D
i tagged you in an invitation blog to check out. :)
Wow, that is powerful. I would love to hear some more about the inspiration behind it. Is this based on history?
thank you so much! i would say that all my writing is based on some facts. i throw in information from my own life experience. that said, it is up to the readers discretion to believe. since i speak to spirit, get readings from lands and spirit. many do not believe these things and only part if it is recorded for sourcing. i could prove that these lands were taken away during the 1880 takeover but not who died or was murdered in the process. like Zen said above i could write a 5k doc on it, she also sees. :)
the short answer is yes, this is based on history.
Somehow I get the feeling I'd be welcomed there, that the spirits crying out in anguish there would say welcome old soul from the red land
well funny thing is that I actually was welcomed there and told some stories. thus the writing.
we do not call it "red land." where did you get that term? plus you are kinda pale. buahahaha
I grew up in Oklahoma hence the red land or the red earth, the red river, the red people, everything there is red and if it isn't it will be after the rain and the dust starts blowing.
interesting, ive never heard people say that, its sort of derogatory to a NA. like saying the N word to a black person. of course amongst ourselves we say phrases.
ive rarely seen red lands in USA, closest is sedona and parts of rockies or rocks that contain high iron. i only drove through oklahoma but it was bland looking no red. wheat and weeds. gotta go research oklahoma now!
Many parts of the state have the reddest clay that is almost insufferable. It does make some great pottery tho if you screen out the chunks of potassium and calcium. I had a honey hole south of Paul's Valley I used to go mine a few buckets of red red clay that took well to a mid range firing and came out almost a rose color with no glaze on it but got kinda brownish when glazed or fired to high
interesting! most pottery ive seen is from arizona and new mexico clay.
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STOPThe words fit your photo, I can imagine the scene you describe here. And I see it in front of me ... your words made photo go back to earlier times. Times when the indians lived here ... Thank you for sharing.
well the indians still live there, just not in the flesh. :)
So true.
yes, i should write about that part.
I feel a chill when you mention "Indian spirits".
Thanks for the post!
that means its true! :)
thank you for stopping by and reading.
I enjoy the read too!
so happy to hear that ... thank you again.:)