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Best Pueblo Poems


Acoma Pueblo
Acoma Pueblo 

My city of stone
My people I cry for you
I looked into our land
Nothing remains
broken hope of years.
You did toil the soil,
your life was grand.
But what could you do,
the waters ran away from you?
Where did those clouds roll?
Not here, you, my people cried
It hurt...

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Categories: pueblo, native american, world, people,
Form: Free verse
Zuni Weather
A Zuni who prays every day
Saw a cloud in the sky back in May
He yelled, "Do or die!"
Which made the cloud cry
And that's why its still raining today....

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Categories: pueblo, cry, culture, native american,
Form: Limerick
Trumpland
I ride the mesas
Wherever I go
Are Hopi, Zuni,
And tall Navajo

So many people
On dry, barren land
All Trump says is,
"They sure have got sand!"...

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Categories: pueblo, betrayal, corruption, discrimination, environment,
Form: Rhyme

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