Interpretation 1: (poem)
Do not forget this land
When you are far away
and the eagle’s cry can’t reach you
When the ocean’s deep mouth
has swallowed our wolf-moon
Do not forget
this land of snowy pines
and listening rivers
the water between our bodies
our hair
swirled together.
Remember the fire
under a sky of untouched stars;
We were young.
Do not forget
how we believed in the innocence of dreams,
this land we thought
could never change.
Do not forget
- the golden harvest corn
and the envious wind
how it snatched the laughter from our lips
to comb the deep fields
and scatter like dust
between two worlds -
this land
held in your dreams
and mine
when memory is a ghost
an old wound
troubling in the rainy dark,
banished by sunlight.
Oh my beloved,
Pocahontas,
princess of the waterfall,
when the wind no longer stirs
aught but your dark hair,
do not forget,
this land
do not forget
this land
do not forget
this land,
will always
remember
you.
Interpretation 2: A PowerPoint presentation (on my USB)
Do not forget this land
When you are far away
and the eagle’s cry can’t reach you
When the ocean’s deep mouth
has swallowed our wolf-moon
Do not forget
this land of snowy pines
and listening rivers
the water between our bodies
our hair
swirled together.
Remember the fire
under a sky of untouched stars;
We were young.
Do not forget
how we believed in the innocence of dreams,
this land we thought
could never change.
Do not forget
- the golden harvest corn
and the envious wind
how it snatched the laughter from our lips
to comb the deep fields
and scatter like dust
between two worlds -
this land
held in your dreams
and mine
when memory is a ghost
an old wound
troubling in the rainy dark,
banished by sunlight.
Oh my beloved,
Pocahontas,
princess of the waterfall,
when the wind no longer stirs
aught but your dark hair,
do not forget,
this land
do not forget
this land
do not forget
this land,
will always
remember
you.
Interpretation 2: A PowerPoint presentation (on my USB)