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Chippewa Poems - Poems about Chippewa

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......

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Categories: chippewa, dream, native american, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member GNRT DAY 29 DEVIL'S ISLAND AND SIGNS
... Today we took a cruise to Devil’s island where the strong Lake Superior waves from years of crashing on its rocks have created these beautiful caves. The thunderous booms the waves made as they......

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Categories: chippewa, travel,
Form: Vaasokht



Premium Member Chippewa Chief John Smith
...Chief John Smith was a learned chief revered by some, respected by many he had taken over the Chippewa as a young man his peers were all gone now, for he was ninety-six he figured he might have a......

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Categories: chippewa, native american,
Form: Free verse
There Was No Noble Savage
...I sometimes hear a stubborn myth, that before Europeans came the locals of America all lived lives quite peaceful, and tame. The old trope of the Noble Savage, that somehow manages to persist,......

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Categories: chippewa, america, history, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
A Wilderness Tale
...She was taken by bears, that was the consensus, dragged off in her sleeping bag; tracks confirmed. Later the child was eaten, but not before she died of old age. She lodged with the Grizzlies,......

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Categories: chippewa, poetry,
Form: Free verse



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 ......

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Categories: chippewa, america, happiness, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sky Beings
...Sky Beings Present since the day of creation, They define the firmament Populating the night sight sky In ever changing relationships As Galileo’s sphere revolves on it axis Only to reappea......

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Categories: chippewa, night, sky,
Form: Free verse
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 ......

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Categories: chippewa, bird, native american, spiritual,
Form: Verse
She Slept With Bears - a Prose Poem
...She was taken by bears; that was the unlikely consensus - dragged off in her sleeping bag, tracks confirmed. She lodged with the grizzlies, growing sturdy, unusually hirsute for a human gir......

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Categories: chippewa, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member History of Kansas In Rhyme
...At one time eight different Native America Indian Tribes lived in peace, In the state of Kansas, sharing buffalo, shared lands with no lease. The Iowa, Chippewa, Delaware, Kansas, Osage, Pawnee and......

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Categories: chippewa, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Cerebral Intelligence Empowered With
...Cerebral Intelligence Empowered With... Google Embedded Microchip™¡åßç Nowadays...ah so passe routine top notch roboticized brain surgery ushers, inoculates, begets... promising immunity agains......

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Categories: chippewa, dream, fantasy, loss, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Long-Lost Friend
...A Long-Lost Friend Dedicated to Chippewa Lake Park When did you die When did everyone turn on you There were so many children Who laughed with you And squealed as they sat with you And you w......

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Categories: chippewa, anger, death, death of
Form: Free verse
The Lakes
...The Iroquois, the Ottawa, the Potawatomi, the Crow, The Lakota, the Chippewa; all dwelt by their shores And in their deep forests, but are there no more. Yet the Lakes remain; their waters abid......

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Categories: chippewa, nature, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
May They Live On
...Mohawk, Mandan, Kikapu, Cree, Yakoma,Seminole, Crow,Shawnee. Arapaho, Chippewa and Sioux, Mystical names to me and you. Names like Delaware, Fox and Paiute, Listen to their music on the flute. ......

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Categories: chippewa, america, discrimination, eulogy, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Native Speaks Truths
...Native Speaks Truths She's not your princess or your squaw; She is respected clan mother of the Chippewa. He's not your chief, buck, or redskin: He is a proud warrior of the Algonquin. We......

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Categories: chippewa, anger, history, native american,
Form: Prose

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