Get Your Premium Membership

Best American Indian Poems

Below are the all-time best American Indian poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of american indian poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows and Howling Wolf
American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling Wolf

Thirsty for red moon, its sacred beams and eternal pull
howling-out to speak to this dark and blind world, without...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, art, conflict, death, history,
Form: Verse



North American Indian - Contest
Native American people had  a set rule of living
The men hunted and protected
The women, cook, child mind and made clothing
To maintain both was an...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, history, , cute,
Form: Verse
The American Indian
The American Indians have a story to tell
and a way of life that history knows so well.
For many years, the great tribes stretched across the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, appreciation, beauty, history,
Form: Rhyme
Gold Fever
Gold Fever 

History will not record the bloated weight
Of this pious and bigoted race 
Or count the fat and flaccid wealth
Of religions idolatry

Those pages have...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, faithfaith, political, perspective, ,
Form: Free verse
Hijacked By Lexicon Thievery
This poem may get into trouble,
The world wants identity double.
Attempting to culture commonality,
The world champions individuality.

Theft of language has become all too common,
Yesterday’s use today...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, change, color, confusion, gender,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Seeded
"Seeded" 

planted in the mind, another way of being
outside spectrum, the act of forgiveness
the lore of love, united with the Seven Sisters

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)







"The Pleiadean...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, children, creation, forgiveness, future,
Form: Free verse
A View of Heaven
Long blue-black, straight hair.
 The color of a raven so rare.
Cheek bones chiseled with grace.
 A tan Native American face.

Hair, braided with a ritual feather.
...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, fantasy, native american, passionnative
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Free As the Wind Ode To Native American Indians
Oh how I wish
I could set free
the native American Indian
with pride and dignity
taking them back
across the great open plains
to their sacred home
in the lush green...

Read more of this work...
© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: american indian, dedication, dream, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Ode
Young American Days
To be in a young America ~
           visions of a ship upcoming statue of Liberty
...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, absence, america, art, books,
Form: Epic
Race-Ism
Race-Ism

What makes one man or woman better than another?
Should we think differently of those who adapted
to another environment and adapted another color?

If our differences are...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, black african american, immigration,
Form: Rhyme
May They Live On
Mohawk, Mandan, Kikapu, Cree,
Yakoma,Seminole, Crow,Shawnee.
Arapaho, Chippewa and Sioux,
Mystical names to me and you.
Names like Delaware, Fox and Paiute,
Listen to their music on the flute.
Lakota, Macuna,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, america, discrimination, eulogy, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
A Princess
Ruby Lee

R... Right or wrong I came here.
U.. uncertain of what life would be.
B... Because God wanted me here.
Y... Young, I was once.

L... Love I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, granddaughter, native american,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Spectrum of Healing Touches
This tanned wee white child of Welsh-English
With a bit of American Indian flowing 
like a creek running through the meadow;
p-h-y-s-i-o-l-o-g-y spelled out loud
Daddy was proud...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, life, work, me, ,
Form: Free verse
Hugh Jackman
If Hugh jackman,s time as wolverine is thrue . 

Then maybe I can fynd him , sumthing else 2 du !

He could play a part...

Read more of this work...
© John Hall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: american indian, adventure, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Ballad
Colour
Do we see the world 
through rose coloured glasses 
Durst cut up the bodies of people
Psychologists say
He must have a mental illness
perhaps but the spanish
conquistadors...

Read more of this work...
Categories: american indian, abuse, people, prejudice,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs