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April 26, 2019

Poem of the Day: What's Written on the Body

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Poem of the Day: What's Written on the Body. By Peter Pereira.

Aired February 16, 2017

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Shirley H
This touched my heart yo tears I have heard an American Indian medicine man who asked Dr to dance to his rhyme that they join in his healing. This message so completely spoken including his ancestors of past, present and future were stunning.. I just stand all amazed with tears in my eyes.
Shirley H
The skin is so personal, the most intimate part of ones being. And by linking the front of the chest skins with rubbing the daughter left her raised markings for the time to come But also the color as her time present. She was his child and they stood together in the soft wind as Family. On the back were the ancestors all pointing the homeland for all to be once again united. His very cells held Curing secrets on his skin. In triumph over death on more time, he could hold his hands high.
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Cameron C
Pretty cool
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