Blackfoot Poems - Poems about Blackfoot

..."Just live a little, Hawaiian style!" Quote by Hawaiian Style Band. On the first day of Christmas, my tutu gave to me, -- (and...) a-*Ne-ne-Goose-un-der-a-gua-va-tree. (guava fruits are t......Read the rest...

...EPIGRAMS IV Improve yourself by others' writings, attaining freely what they purchased at the expense of experience. —Socrates, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I didn’t me......Read the rest...

... Let me tell you a story ... The story of Wolverine is so vast that I would need much more space, though, I will tell you what I have gathered about this man; he was born in Alberta......Read the rest...

...So much lost… so little gained Prairies in judgment, our destiny framed So little gained for what we lost Spirits now orphaned —tomorrow the cost (Browning Montana: Blackfoot Reserva......Read the rest...

...Twilight Flight by Monty Wright What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs ac......Read the rest...

...Mayan Poetry Translations The Receiving of the Flower excerpt from a Mayan love poem loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Let us sing overflowing with joy as we observe the R......Read the rest...

...Crazy Horse's Naming Vision by Michael R. Burch Earthbound, and yet I now fly through these clouds that are aimlessly drifting... so high that no sound echoing by below where the mountains ......Read the rest...

...Salat Days by Michael R. Burch (dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.) I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ... though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the fro......Read the rest...

...The teeth are dry. It is Silken Thomas muffling for promises among the rats in his straw, jostling for a hand, once wielding but now scratching the toes of power. The tongue leather b......Read the rest...

...Erasure Poem So many fake Indians these days Elizabeth Warren is one And according to my DNA results I am too But my grand-parents spoke Cherokee my mom claims And they disappeared into the ......Read the rest...

...For thousands of years, ice giants were sleeping. But now, these dense “blue ice” glaciers are weeping. Warnings that in many ways bear repeating. Global climate change speeds glaciers’ retreating......Read the rest...

...Desolate Woman: From the Novel 'Revenge Along The War Trail' “She's what the Blackfoot refer to as ‘Desolate Woman’ Sad when she's happy, —not happy when she's sad" (Villanova Pennsylvania......Read the rest...

..." Damn you, let go my gun! " The morning hasn't even yawned yet and a terrible tussle is in my sight, Drouillard is wrestling his rifle from the hands of this Indian thief and the Field brothers ......Read the rest...

...The Great Falls of the northern Plains is actually a chain of five seperate waterfalls varying in height and majesty extending over 12 miles, they also confirm that the right river was chosen, we ......Read the rest...

...Blowing up On the thistledown tail Dancing in grooves Of Vulcans palm Printed in a horses ear Swimming in a fish's gills Cleverly caught To be spread on butterfly wings Shouting, “I want ......Read the rest...