Blackfoot Poems - Poems about Blackfoot

...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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

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..."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......

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...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......

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... 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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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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