At The End of My Pencil
Come take my hand and journey with me…
Over the years I have used poetry as a way of voicing my thoughts, my fears, my hopes, my dreams, my love and my pain.
These pages will take you from a land of fantasy to a road of sorrow and sadness, they then will take you down a path less traveled and to areas unknown. You will laugh, you will cry, you will nod and maybe even shake your head in disbelief. You will wonder and ponder, you will agree and even maybe disagree.
There have been many scenic overlooks on my path and with the poems I’ve composed here in this book, I hope that you will take a moment to have a break in your own journey and to see the world through my eyes, from my heart and from my point of view.
Enjoy!
Go la
nv Ga wo ni ha
Pronounced: go-la-nah ga-woe-knee-hah
or in
English: Raventalker
I am simply a messenger ... my goal
here is to help as many as I can with the stories I have lived and
those yet to come. I will share with you my journey, my walk on the
path of the Red Road with a collection of poetry I’ve written over
the years. Come take my hand and walk with me a while... together we
will grow .. together we will learn and together we will heal.
How
did I get my name?
My name comes from the Creator by way of a
Cherokee/Lakota Medicine Man. I received my Cherokee name through
sacred Cherokee ceremony on an Autumn evening. A moment I shall never
forget.
I'll tell you the story I was given of how the
Creator gave the medicine man my name.
One
Autumn evening the Medicine Man went into sweat lodge to ask the
Creator for my name. A pack of wolves entered the lodge and lined
against the wall. One wolf just would not stop talking... it went on
and on about anything and everything. My friend said to the wolf
"will you be quiet, I can't focus!". Frustrated, my friend
says to the Creator .. I don't understand what you are telling me, I
need a name for Holly. He heard a voice say, I have already given you
the name. In the background that wolf was still jabbering away and my
friend says "wolftalker?" and at that point a raven flew up
onto his shoulder and says,
"NO, it's Raventalker and don't
forget it!"
Index
Taken by the Hand …………………………………... 5
What Do You See? …………………………………… 7
I’m Just Me …………………………………………… 9
The Raven’s Song ……………………………………. 10
Lost but Right in Front of You ……………………… 11
One Thousand Times ………………………………… 12
As We Dance …………………………………………. 13
Returning of the Sun ………………………………… 14
As The Raven Dreams ……………………………….. 15
Let Me Be ……………………………………………… 16
When Our Season Comes …………………………….. 17
Healing …………………………………………………. 19
The Mask ………………………………………………. 20
Many Moons ………………………………………….. 21