Blackfoot Poems - Poems about Blackfoot

Dream Song of the Thunders from the Chippewa

...Dream Song of the Thunders
Chippewa saying
translation by Michael R. Burch

Sometimes I bemoan my “plight”
when all the while
the wind bears me across the immense sky.


What is life?
The f...

The Drumbeat Of My Heart

...Do you hear the drumbeat of my heart? 
The thunder of a Star’s descendent? 

I’m bound to the sound there is no evil;
Nature is both the left and right hand;

Do you hear the pounding deep insi...

Poems about Shadows and Darkness

...These are poems about shadows, poems about darkness, poems about shades in the form of ghosts and spirits...



Shadows
by Michael R. Burch

Alone again as evening falls,
I join gaunt shadows...

She’s not GONE SHE'S JUST NOT HERE Grandma LUE is in the HEAVENLIES

...Elegy 
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
                                                                                                 -Rumi

Soil so dust to dust another ...

The Twelve Days of Christmas, Hawaiian Style

..."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...

Epigrams Iv

...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

Are mayflie...

Wolverine

... 

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...

The Eagle Cries

...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...

Spirit Animals In Flight

...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...

Mayan Poetry Translations

...Mayan Poetry Translations

The Receiving of the Flower
excerpt from an ancient Mayan love poem
translation by Michael R. Burch

Let us sing overflowing with joy
as we observe the Receiving of ...

Crazy Horse's Naming Vision

...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 ...

Defenses

...These are poems about war and defenses.



Defenses
by Michael R. Burch

Beyond the silhouettes of trees
stark, naked and defenseless
there stand long rows of sentinels:
these pert white pi...

Salat Days

...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...

Tenth Earl of Kildare

...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...

Why Are There So Many Fake Cherokees

...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 ...

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