Best Navaho Poems

Wild horses, prairies, desert canyons,
Native Indians, brush landscapes
by 'Dean of Western Painters'
known as Olaf Wieghorst.
His contrast boldness,
softened with light
blended hues,
stirred my
heart.

Inspired to capture his moving...

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Where have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota,
And the Sioux,
Choking for a breath of life's sustaining air,
Smothered beneath the white man's blanket.
The beating heart...

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The Fox:

1.  the blare of the horn
     snooty hooves of  fire red coats...
     panting for...

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THE LAST STAND

Where have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota, and the Sue,
Smothered beneath the white man's blanket,
Chocking for a breath of airs life's...

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Today's closing hangs lower than it did yesterday, 
trying to mess with tomorrow's dreams. 

Sitting here, dressed in a wry smile, my heart 
whispers to...

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He salutes the mountains Tehachapi to the west
San Gabriel and San Bernardino to the south 
This is his rite of passage
His coming of age
How he’s...

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Hang Over Reflections


Last night a Korean friend from Virginia came for a two week visit He brought with him a 30-year Bottle of Ballentine whiskey....

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The Holy Bible is a Journal.   
On the desk, and it's definitely 
not made of Mahogany, 
it's lightly-stained Oak.

The blanket is Navaho. ...

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an east meets west show
the Navaho laid low-
on western art nouveau

* a baize and handspun wool blanket-widely pictured in Stikley's Arts& Crafts mag 'Craftsman' 
c...

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An energetic wedge of blue cranes doing mating dances
entered into Little Bear’s dream state without warning
Are they my totem? My spiritual advisors? My power animals?
He...

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I might have seen,
(not on a movie or television screen),
but had looked where the mind flickers
when I am not there 
    ...

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snail peeked out of his owner’s Navaho backpack
where was his owner? They would be late for the geology test.
He knew he had been dropped accidentally
he...

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Deliberately Flawed


Makers of pottery, rug weavers too,
     from varied cultures- plan each design;
create flawed patches in work that they do-
 ...

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Navaho woman gathers eagle feathers in a thoughtful way
Understanding their mystical properties better than most
The feathers invite ancestral spirits to gather their soul clan
The resulting...

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Claim the Skies Back
Eastern Alleppo, weighed down like a ghetto
Destroyed like Navaho 
By the unfathomably destructive deeds
of a single generation
Distorted venerations based on misinterpretations
Perpetuate these...

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