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Aboriginal Poems - Poems about Aboriginal


Premium Member To William Ricketts, Sculptor
Between the trees a waterfall of light, a stillness bright with bubbling springs and birdsong. Here you stumbled ...

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Categories: aboriginal, art,
Form: Free verse
Aboriginal People
These are the Aborigines We have ruined there lives It is time to say sorry and meaningful goodbyes We had different believes and stories to tell But not all of them were happy They weren’t settling down very well And I am sorry to say, the war was hell! They got there swords and spears And we’re ready to fight But...

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Categories: aboriginal, appreciation, discrimination, environment, goodbye,
Form: Free verse



I Am Waiting - - - Acknowledging Bruce Pascoe and His Book Dark Emu
I am waiting For the colonists’ offspring To see. See what’s already there. Been there decades, hundreds and thousands of years. Brewarrina. Birrngi-Bream. Condah. Tuupuurn-Galaxis. Bolac. Smoked eels. Curly Mitchell Grass. Nodding Greenhoods. Yam Daisy-Murnong. Budj Bim. World Heritage. Right here! Dark Emu. Read it. Grasp the future. Don’t wait. Act. Thrive....

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Categories: aboriginal, discrimination, prejudice, racism, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Truth of Time
“Look into the corners of forgotten places the meek await their turn, inheritance, the horizon moves closer recognize there are battles you have already won… Whose hands compose humanities script, allow us all toseeyour thoughts their misinterpreted meaning washes the victims away the walls record the hunt marvel at the imagery ancient galleries now oceans apart before language actions spoke,...

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Categories: aboriginal, abuse, truth,
Form: Free verse
Geography of a Pandemic
This is a tanka, because Canada is "tanking": I There are 3 countries that are really "North America" - Canada, Us, and Mexico (Most forget Mexico is North!) II "Stainless Steel" Lady Mcgreavy updated me on the news from Canada - "The American Pandemic has passed the permeable borders" III Mexico was always bad with policing, law and order bull After George Floyd, Canada...

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Categories: aboriginal, america, analogy, hate, heartbroken,
Form: Tanka



Baloo Murri
Independent Thinking _______________________ a jingle janglein my pocket one day i did hear not much too do a thing with left me in my ponder about this problem i did wonder Upon my life i have thought not much more than i could think but reconciling life in my deepest thought i could not find me im not so old i know too much and...

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Categories: aboriginal, character, culture, emotions, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Translation of Aboriginal Charter of Rights By Oodgeroo Noonuccal
La Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme, La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme Du progrès pour les Noirs, pas l’essor des Blancs : Faites-nous des égaux, pas ceux dépendent de vous. Nous avons besoin d’assistance, pas d’exploitation, Nous voulons la liberté,...

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Categories: aboriginal, political, prejudice, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Soul's Aboriginal
There are times I can think only of you Satisfied fully Entering that place All leading to you The area of my mind Wishing no outside of border Within the curvature of your Flowing, pure line Over your natural texture That scent indigenous of you My Soul’s Aboriginal It is here on tranquil plane Back in the garden Of Journey’s Beginning Before the fall and erosion Wanting only You To breathe with...

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Categories: aboriginal, allegory, allusion, dream, heart,
Form: Free verse

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