Velmar Pewee Hale Johnson Trenton, Tennessee

I'm Cherokee and Apache Indian. This is my pride and joy, my son Little Sky, when he grows up he wants to be a writer like me. I was born in Tennessee, and raised in Chicago, IL. My favorite writers are Steven King, Wes Craven, Edgar Allen Poe, and R.L. Stine. I've been writing since 1970, I wrote a gossip column in 1980's for the Crockett Times, and was a Weather Watcher for Channel 13 T.V., in Memphis, and Channel 7 T.V. in Jackson, Tennessee. I like to write. Its one of my hobbies.

EVOLUTIONARY REINCARNATION ONE DAY A LADYBUG, AND A COCKROACH WERE HAPPILY ON THERE WAY, WHEN THEY HAPPENED TO MEET EACH OTHER ON THAT WARM SPRING DAY. THE COCKROACH ASKED THE LADYBUG JUST WHO MIGHT YOU HAVE BEEN? THE LADYBUG REPLIED I WAS A NOBLE LADY, A LOVING MOTHER, AND A QUEEN. THE LADYBUG ASKED THE COCKROACH WHO WERE YOU IN YOUR OTHER LIFE? SAID THE COCK- ROACH TO THE LADYBUG, WITH AN EVIL LOOK IN HER EYES. I WAS A SOCIAL WORKER, AND A COPS WIFE! THE LADYBUG LAUGHED, AND SAID, WE ARE NOT MUCH DIFFERENT THEN WE USE TO BE, SEE OVER THERE IS A TAX COLLECTOR, NOW HE IS A FLEA.

A NIGHTMARE OF THE SOUL AS I SLOWLY CREPT INTO THE ROOM, I COULD SEE HER GENTLY BREATHING, IT WAS A FULL MOON OUT THAT STARRY NIGHT. SHE LOOKED LIKE AN ANGEL, WHICH WAS IRONIC, CONSIDERING THAT'S JUST WHAT SHE WAS ABOUT TO BECOME. I EVER SO QUITELY PUT THE KNIFE TO HER THROAT, AND IN ONE QUICK MOTION GAVE HER IMMORTALITY. NEVER DID SHE WAKE FROM HER SLEEP, AS GENTLY I DID WEEP. CRYING OUT MY HEART DID POUR, AS NEVER HAD IT BEFORE, SLEEP MY LOVE FOREVER MORE, WALK SWIFTLY THROUGH GODS GOLDEN DOOR. THEN I AWOKE FROM MY DREAM, FEAR GRIPPING MY VERY SOUL, HEART POUNDING. IT WAS JUST A DREAM WASN'T IT? I GENTLY PULLED THE BLOOD STAINED SHEET UP TO MY CHIN, BUT ALAS SLEEP NEVER CAME AGAIN. FOR AS A CLOUD CROSSED THE MOON, SATAN AROSE FROM HIS HELLISH TOMB. REACH- ING OUT FROM THE COLD GROUND, HE PULLED ME FURTHER AND FURTHER DOWN, OH TO GOD I PRAY, PLEASE FORGIVE ME THIS DAY.

All poems Copyright © 1997 Velmar Pewee Hale Johnson. All rights reserved.