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GNRT DAY 15 OH CANADA

...Today we bid goodbye to beautiful Glacier
We’re traveling to a tiny house in Monarch, Canada…on our way to Banff
Which is distressing for a person who love rhymes
not because it won’t be beautiful...

Categories: blackfeet, peace, travel,
Form: Rhyme

GNRT DAY 13 TWO MEDICINE LAKE

...
Today we took a beautiful hike…a journey we wanted to make
through some woods, across a meadow ending up at Two Medicine Lake.

This lake is sacred to the Blackfeet Nation because, as they expla...

Categories: blackfeet, native american,
Form: Rhyme

BLACKFEET BLESSING

...
For today’s blessing  I thought it would be neat
to yield my pen to one of the Niitsitapi tribe
We gave them the name Blackfeet:

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It i...

Categories: blackfeet, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

GNRT DAY 12 GOING TO THE SUN

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For our first full day in Glacier these two old children of the sun thought it would be fun
to get up early before the crowds …and head out to the sun….

It’s actually called Going to the Sun Ro...

Categories: blackfeet, sun, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Living Up To One's Name

...I looked at the obituary,
Read the words inside
And did a double take about
The person who had died.

He was a famous chief of what
They call the Blackfeet Nation
And most revered for fighting...

Categories: blackfeet, obituary,
Form: Rhyme

Do Not Deprive and Remain Alive

...Do Not Deprive and Remain Alive

God did not intend us to deprive;
He knows we surely will survive;
Escape mishap,
And avoid trap;
Stay on earth and remain alive.

Jim Horn

Nampa means moc...

Categories: blackfeet, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Happy Birthday Grandma

...Happy Birthday Grandma, we are celebrating another year
You may not know it’s your birthday, but we do and we cheer
We get to spend some more valuable time before the dreaded day draws near
A trul...

Categories: blackfeet, emotions, family, feelings, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme

Ghosts of the High Rockies, Part Ii

...* * *

The trapper looked for the oddly-dressed man,
but could no longer see him, or his tent.
He glanced around, so supremely confused,
now where the devil had that darned fool went?

He sear...

Categories: blackfeet, america, confusion, history, imagery,
Form: Narrative

Ghosts of the High Rockies, Part I

...Eamon heard the rocks skitter away,
scree tumbling down with his every step,
descending from towering Mount Gilborne,
to a lake below where he could rest.

He knew a spot to set up his new tent,...

Categories: blackfeet, america, confusion, history, imagery,
Form: Narrative

Soul Stance River - 35

...Damn it!
Crouching low on the ridge with Joseph and Rubin we see
that twenty horses or more are grazing with a group of Indians in the valley,
through the telescope two things are clear
the India...

Categories: blackfeet, adventure,
Form: Epic

Soul Stance River - 29

...The Nez Perce Indians who lead lean lives on these knolls and river brooks
have a style of soul that sneaks into the songs of the sun
and plays on the prayers in the patience of their dreams,
they...

Categories: blackfeet, adventure,
Form: Epic

Rain Dance

...Blackfeet
drum beaters
Beaded moccasins
whirl


medicine man
in wolf's skin
rattles around fire...

Categories: blackfeet, adventure, computer-internet, faith, family,
Form: I do not know?