Best Totem Poems

Desiring to know the totem guiding me,
I fell to sleep and dreamed, and in my dream,
a creature brightly painted crept its way toward me.
It spoke in the voice of a female,
but the voice I heard was coming from its soul as
it spoke to my heart,...

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There was a farm hand named Tommy Totem
Who went out to the garden and hoe’d ‘em
But that implement
Was useless since bent
So he used the tool next to his scrotum


For Bawdy Limerick two contest
July 1, 2014...

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Deep in my heart I cry out to the owl,
A feathered fowl represents watchfulness
And the everlasting search for wisdom,
Brown speckled bird that hears the call of truth,
It holds to its high perch tenaciously,
And is thought so infinitely stubborn.

The owl is the messenger of the sky,
It...

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In deep of forest he roams with might
A silken coat flaring through eve’s air;	
When moon casts boldness on a steed’s rite
To journey free… far as runes declare,
My horse totem enkindling power
Directing flights in my younger days --
Where carousels merry blessed the hour
This kinship granting me...

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A basketball player named Odom
Wants to dribble the balls in his scrotum
   He tries to bounce them
   Hardwood boards renounce them
Odom can't put 'em back ~ has to tote 'em!...

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Bottom of Totem Pole

Oh my gosh and do bless my soul
Someone is at bottom of totem pole
Then try to control way they vote
Making them become a scapegoat.

Are always rocks and a hard place
To find each difficulty we must face
All the obstacles and obstructions
Can possibly result...

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I walked the mother earth many moons ago
 I danced to the feathered arrowhead drums


 Shall I call his name again?
 I miss my warm spirit




 My name is Meadows
 With mine I can feel a comb of silence, his hand to mine
 He will...

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I searched in the plantations all day
one pineapple I got out of sweat
but it is not  a normal earthly fruit 
it is adorned with tattoos and taboos

The totem pineapple kills my buds
I chew calmly the sweetness in mouth
wanting not that it is finished in...

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Born shackled with globe sized
yoked millstone around my neck
rivaling the world Atlas shrugged,
or outsize boulder Sisyphus

eternally obliged to toil uphill
steepest mountain side
in concert with
Battlestar Galactica pièce de résistance
ear splitting discordant cacophonous din.

Simultaneously analogous twin tower
of Old Faithful geyser
Googleplex times Mariana Trench
aqueous oceanic chasm amply housing
Rhode...

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Red Fox is a totem being,
for in true wisdom, he is seeing,
though in dreams, an image fleeting;
it bears repeating, it bears repeating.

Reminds us all, we have to laugh,
have fun, play, be a little bit chaff,
though some may call you, old Falstaff;
you’re not riffraff, you’re not...

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chirping exhaust trails
of a streaming philharmonic

blue-winged panegyrics float in
on a breeze of murmurs

dazzling brainwaves prevail
upheavals of a dawning melody

sequels of an aurora psalm

silken song of a chickadee

twilight fascination
in strands of a woven sapphire

orchestral melodic line

a thalia chorus with notes of 
birch on a spring morning

4th...

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Aiyana is a tiny bit jealous of her brothers.
They get to be in the sweat lodge with the men tonight.
This means they will soon be discovering their totem animals.
Why is this only for males in the Shoshone tribe? She asks her mother.

At three in the...

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With the wisdom of your power animal
It is time to face the shadows
Be fearless without nocturnal fears
Seek wisdom in silence, as your totem, owl
Your truth is parading in the dark.
To reach your highest self
You will become an owl
Wisely soaring past the highest trees
Opening doorways to...

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If you have never been in touch with a spirit animal
follow me for you have simply not paid attention
I have so many I am a walking wildlife zoo

My ultimate most powerful spirit animal is the deer
neck to neck with the wolf and the eagle
Deer reminds...

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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 believed in such things, being Navaho. 

He asked the revered shaman for advice
The crane will bring you luck and fortune
You...

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