Best Indigenous Poems
Below are the all-time best Indigenous poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of indigenous poems written by PoetrySoup members
Guardian of the Environment - Indigenous PeoplesFor several thousands of years
you upheld the sacredness of Nature
avoiding wanton destruction
of plant and animal life
taking only what you needed
since their sacredness was
just...
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Categories:
indigenous, abuse, animal, environment, food,
Form:
Free verse
Let Me Become You, IndigenousLet me hug you, human, and be one being,
Let the stars shine and go for sightseeing,
Let us share smiles under the moon,
Let our children play...
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Categories:
indigenous, change, community, culture, discrimination,
Form:
Rhyme
Indigenous Feel of Peaceful LoveIndigenous feel of peaceful love Interferencing touch of skin
There has been no where better I have been
So empowered , clean , free...
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Categories:
indigenous, art, feelings, for him,
Form:
Free verse
My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs
There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…
seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape
of sun-raptured...
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Categories:
indigenous, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
Arikara Born
I like many others have lived in our dreams
In this world where I lived amongst forests and streams
Where the Great Plains stretched and our rivers...
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Categories:
indigenous, america, childhood, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Desert DreamingA violent scene lay before me
Huddled in death, there’s Ella, Mary-belle, everywhere I could see
Swollen tongues, sunken eyes, frail bodies strewn in the hot powdery...
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Categories:
indigenous, anxiety, nature, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
The Whistling HamletA whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic,
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal,
Warbling quietly to whistle...
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Categories:
indigenous, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form:
Alliteration
Lady of My LifeHer heartbeat echoes like a love moan in my mind,
summoning centuries of refined romanticism soulfully enshrined,
the contralto of her voice a fillatio upon the cock...
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Categories:
indigenous, beauty, desire, devotion, dream,
Form:
Ode
Talking Tree TruthCome with me to the Talking Tree
a place where spirit and nature can be.
Where science of the forest couples
with ancient traditions of the land.
Where indigenous...
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Categories:
indigenous, native american, nature, science,
Form:
Couplet
An Excavation
Children as young as three years old,
Killed for not doing as they’re told,
Forced to forget their culture...
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Categories:
indigenous, abuse, children, death, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Apache Ga An©1996 RICO LEFFANTA
THE 4TH GA-AN RISES FROM THE FLAMES IN AN APACHE RITUAL OLDER THAN RELIGIONS BROUGHT TO THE “New World” FROM THE “old world”—Apache...
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Categories:
indigenous, appreciation, celebration, dance,
Form:
Rhyme
Genocidal SurvivorsThey call me Brave Heart
Not because of my courage but because it is my last name
And not because I "like" Mel Gibson that much but...
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Categories:
indigenous, africa, courage, grief, growing
Form:
Rhyme
Mary's ShriftIndigenous woman—rarely accompanied by their
white sisters—or their men enter
through the side door
of St. Peter’s Church.
Here they are boxed in cool stucco,
and stained-glass. A flock...
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Categories:
indigenous, devotion, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
WindwalkerI
knew a Tiger
who swam with dolphins
along the razor’s edge
and
meditated with a yellow bird
under his honey’s tree
in a west coast garden.
A
rare breed
from an indigenous
creed.
His
poetic wisdom
written with
zen.
He
sung...
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Categories:
indigenous, bereavement, cancer, grief, loss,
Form:
Free verse
The Dark Side of CanadaI do not have to go far away
but just look within canada to see
there is starvation ...
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Categories:
indigenous, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse