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 Ink“Indian Accent”
Hear 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 blue eyes...
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Categories:
native american, abuse, autumn, death, deep, freedom, journey,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling WolfAmerican 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...
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Categories:
native american, art, conflict, death, history, humanity, truth,
Form:
Verse
Ancient Warrior
I 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, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
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:
adventure, girl, life, native american, spiritual,
Form:
Ballad
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:
appreciation, culture, environment, native american, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
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, inspirational, native
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...
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Categories:
native american, 6th grade, earth, god, horse, introspection,
Form:
Sonnet
Cherokee Tears
Cherokee 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
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
Categories:
native american, fantasyrain, rain,
Form:
Couplet
Ancient Embers
My Chief ...
Thoughts go back to it again, the day you found me on the plain,
Bloody from...
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Categories:
native american, appreciation, farewell, father, fire, funeral, grief,
Form:
Couplet
Song Of A Cherokee Princess -
Cherokee chamber,
where a pow wow stampeedes preconceptions of inheritence,
from Her beaded neck charms of chance & chains of change
glisten from opulent offerings of roots, corn...
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Categories:
native american, dance, for her, dance,
Form:
Romanticism
Categories:
native american, people,
Form:
Concrete
Riding MistyThough Santa never responded to pleas
There was just one gift on my list each year
A horse that could run at the speed of light
A bold...
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Categories:
native american, adventure, animals, happinesshome, home, horse, high
Form:
Rhyme
Tribute to Susan Boulet Art
Susan Boulet was an artist 1941-1997
Her paintings are famous for their layered effects which she started later on in her artistic career. She loved fantasy...
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Categories:
art, death, native american, prayer, spiritual,
Form:
Prose
Dream WeaverOh Great Dream Weaver
may the strands of hair
be placed just so
While the fog settles down
out in the fields hovering
ever so low
With wise hands...
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Categories:
native american
Form:
Free verse
Massacred NationThe year 1890
December 29th
Wounded Knee, South Dakota
My tribe lost their lives
The USS 7th
On their orders so
To round up the Sioux
Railroad herd them and go
Us Lakota...
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Categories:
native american, war, cousin,
Form:
Rhyme
''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
the first thanksgivingsteal their land
then dine with them....
no reservations needed
**for Chris Aechtner's Yet Another Senryu contest...
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Categories:
holiday, native american,
Form:
Senryu
Luna's EclipseLuna, to the depths
of my fondest delight,
You are regally dressed
this beautiful night.
Your beaming...
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Categories:
native american, moon,
Form:
Monorhyme
Spirit of the Eagle
As a child, broken and forlorn I climbed a high cliff seeking spiritual guidance,
it is the culture of my native people to look to the...
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Categories:
native american, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Once A Wild Child, Playing Barefooted In Deep SnowOnce A Wild Child, Playing Barefooted In Deep Snow
Until you have walked the hard path, felt its brutal cold
stopped believing this world, in it great...
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Categories:
native american, art, creation, deep, earth, meaningful, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
Where spirits never dieSpeechless clementine horizons infuse lilac hues,
tinting twilight's tepid breeze, reflecting sensually,
kissing tranquil waters, forming momentary ripples.
Chocolate cosmos awake greeted by fresh frangipani,
blending luscious flavours...
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Categories:
analogy, native american,
Form:
Free verse
Colour Of My Heart
Since a child I have wandered and explored,
the forest and all the meadows and streams;
the spirit wind has been my great reward,
my hair taken along...
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Categories:
native american, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
The homeless poetA homeless poet
A few days ago, I was walking home with my dollar store notebook in my hand as I walked. I was deep in...
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Categories:
native american, for him, heartbroken, home, how i
Form:
Narrative