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Premium Member Waiting For Sunrise
My whole life waits, just this moment, the ink still

wet; for sunrise this clear May morning.

My shaman up already,
hair askance, dancing and trilling his flute
to...

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Categories: shaman, assonance, beautiful,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Aloha Spirit
Aloha Spirit

Sol, with his golden crown, greets me each morning
within divine rays extending out over emerald hills
and valleys that absorb his warmth of abiding light.

View...

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Categories: shaman, bird, nature, sea, sky,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lady of My Life
Her 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: shaman, beauty, desire, devotion, dream,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Wind Rider
An old man sits peacefully in deep thought
Missing teeth, milky eyes . . .  leathery skin
Wind Rider his name  – a shaman 

The...

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Categories: shaman, wisdom,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Sacred Dwellers
Sacred Dwellers

I am of Native American born
To be caretaker of Mother Earth sworn 

I heal with powers, a medicine man     ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shaman, animal, native american, spiritual,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member 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: shaman, appreciation, celebration, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Cry the Beloved Country
There was a brave,
A sage of his age,
And there was rhythm.
Men United in the hunt,
Women united in the spiritual sounds of songs of the Shaman,
And...

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Categories: shaman, black african american, day,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Red Road
The Shaman sits upon the sand,
the sand of ocher clay;
between the walls of ruins tall,
where ancient one did lay.

The sky above, the earth between;
took in...

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Categories: shaman, dedication, devotion, on work
Form: Sonnet
The Ghost Dance
A shaman prays, the Spirit hears
While a Seventh Calvary regiment waits
Unarmed, a tribe endures a Union's hate
Their animosities, and their fears
As the blue coats begin...

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Categories: shaman, history, inspirational, native americandeath,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Antonin Artaud Theater of Cruelty Or Joie De Vivre Part 1
Paris then was a place
Where new ideas were
Brewing in the intellectual 
And art communities
And new ones were
Emerging everyday
Some brilliant some not 
Time will make it...

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Categories: shaman, allusion, french, symbolism,
Form: Ballad
Pure of Heart
Wise Grandfather Shaman, 
I am pure of Heart,
I bathe beneath the Moon, 
and dry beneath the Sun,
I listen to the Wind,
I run with the Deer,
I...

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Categories: shaman, native american, heart, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul To the Letters of Love
"Soul to The Letters of Love"



Dropped into a body
the vessel is a skeleton key
where waits the other being
holding 3 
in its own mind and hands
the...

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Categories: shaman, journey, love, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shine
A grim, gray day,
endless rain coming in off the ocean.
Endless calls from other people,
"What part do we need for this?"
"Can you order it for us?"
"A...

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Categories: shaman, child,
Form: Prose Poetry
Your Names
I once met a farmer,
Who showed me the plains.
“What is this beauty?”
And he told me her name.

I once met a shaman,
He lived in forests of...

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Categories: shaman, beauty, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Flow
"Flow" 

Flow with the tide turning 
mind speaks to heart
let go let go 

turning tide with the flow
heart speaks to mind
let's go let's go 

come...

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Categories: shaman, home, muse, peace, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things