Best Native American Poems
Below are the all-time best Native American poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of native american poems written by PoetrySoup members
Indian InkINDIAN INK
Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow
A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...
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Categories:
native american, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Healing Power of the Drumyour labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done
I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...
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Categories:
inspirational, native american, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Ancient WarriorI see the wrinkles in your suntanned brow,
You carried burdens then; you see them now.
You’ve heard the cries your people who in pain,
Have shed their...
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Categories:
angst, culture, native american,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Listen For the Drum
listen to the drum,
talking to the dance
listen to the elders,
whispering their chants
listen to the hooves, pounding on the plain
listen to the birds, prophesying rain
listen...
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Categories:
native american, appreciation, culture, environment, native
Form:
Rhyme
Indian Girl--Virginia Slim--
Different eyes, the same world
Ancient skin, dirty Indian Girl
Smokey, eyes, exotic raven hair
---Now listen to the colors, of transformation,
On...
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Categories:
native american, adventure, girl, life, native
Form:
Ballad
We Are OneWe Are One
Dear Ancient Sister
I hear your distant calls finding me on a gentle breeze
You have lived in my dreams for many seasons
My voice
Your...
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Categories:
native american, blessing, celebration, community, courage,
Form:
Free verse
HeritageThe ranch on which I hang my hat, though short on most the frills,
Is thirteen sections, give or take, of rugged trails an’ hills.
We call...
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Categories:
native american, adventure, cowboy-western, education, imagination,
Form:
Quatrain
The Price of Free WillMedicine Hat Appaloosa
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Remember free will too has been gifted,
with freedom allied to fate's fickle choice.
Tendered words uttered still..now uplifted,
God provides each one a life...
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Categories:
native american, 6th grade, earth, god,
Form:
Sonnet
Cherokee TearsCherokee Tears
ceremonial drums' rhythmic heartbeat
impassioned tribal chants
echo in Smoky Mountain mist before dawn
tortured spirit of an ignoble president
Andrew Jackson seems imprisoned here
haunted by wailing ghosts...
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Categories:
native american,
Form:
Free verse
''A Lost Feather''
A feather lost glides, drifting, it soars,
In the mighty wind, it twirls and swirls, as if dancing;
Once, the People owned all the wilderness,
They...
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Categories:
dream, native american,
Form:
Verse
Ancient StonesCharcoal black tip of arrowhead,
among these ancient, stones - stained red
Heartbeats share rhythms of ghostly drums..
Winds carry haunting, chanting hums
I feel your blood, flow here...
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Categories:
native american,
Form:
Couplet
Wind Talker‘neath the halo of a full moon
Wind Talker gives music to the night
flute carved from a fallen tree
he plays to the dwindling forest
trees that...
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Categories:
native american,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
native american, appreciation, farewell, father, fire,
Form:
Couplet
Angel BonesAngel Bones
Two Hundred fifteen angels (Narration by an elder)
each buried in a shallow grave
The monsters said the Angels were savages
that they were there to...
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Categories:
native american, abuse, angst, courage, discrimination,
Form:
Quatrain
Cowboy Shooters On Motor Scooters[Just a little note to help maintain the peace on Soup.
To cause no animosity among...
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Categories:
humorous, native american, western,
Form:
Rhyme