Hopi Poems

Black August

...I.

Hooded eyelids under heavy lashes
doin’ the rain dance like she’s Hopi 
Mariah’s a Scientist
I turned a leaf into gold in the silence,
                               full metal jackets
mak...

One 2 Infinity and Beyond

...One before the why

Neutrinos dance, the tenet

Encoded gem I

Hopi hydrogen

Unified twins, Gemini

Numbers, count by staff

Divided even

Release the energy chi

Equal scales by 2
...

Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 4 of 6'

...IV. Interconnected Web

Teach your children the ethos of 
   the rampart-
   of the earth under their feet. 
Is it more than just soil? It's heaven — 
The Chosen Hallowe...

bracelet

...Was it fashioned by Navajo?
I do not know, I said. But I love it.
Maybe it is Hopi, grandfather suggested.
Or Zuni.

It doesn’t matter to me, I told him.
I absolutely love it.
I would love it ...

bracelet

...Was it fashioned by Navajo?
I do not know, I said. But I love it.
Maybe it is Hopi, grandfather suggested.
Or Zuni.

It doesn’t matter to me, I told him.
I absolutely love it.
I would love it ...

Lost Subterranean City

...lost subterranean city of the Grand Canyon
Fact, legend, Hopi story or cover-up?
In 1909 Arizona Gazette printed the story
A secret underground citadel a mile down
discovered by G E Kinkaid, a re...

Life Out of Balance

...Tonight I stayed at work until 7:00.
It was dark when I locked the front doors.
Winter approaches again, soon the great coat
huddled like a rug around me. The streets
were active as usual, block ...

Lifetime Get-A-Way, a Survivors Tale

...*Image of Cherokee Piper, Four-seater single engine by Wilkie.

Lifetime Get-A-Way, A Survivors Tale

It is nineteen-eighty new years eve in less than two days,
that said--this turne...

Santa Fe

...“Santa Fe”

Santa Fe, Santa Fe, 
Oh Santa Fe,
Take me home to Santa Fe.
Where mountain peaks 
Are bathed in gold.
Where artists and seekers
Come to unfold.

Where natives live in ages past
...

Unconditional Love Conditions

...In times of a virus spreading its unruly truths I wonder why

	What matters most seems to be toilet paper

Loops and loops of the stuff and people care about their bum

Three ply of course beca...

Trumpland

...I ride the mesas
Wherever I go
Are Hopi, Zuni,
And tall Navajo

So many people
On dry, barren land
All Trump says is,
"They sure have got sand!"...

I Yearn For Him To Strum My Chords

...I am to him a Stradivarius, a treasured violin
His bow expertly caresses my supple strings
My body moans when tucked beneath his chin
Revving to his rhythmic pulse, my heart sings

I am the ...

Native Remembrance Day

...I would like to pay tribute to those who died
While introducing you to our native pride
We are Cherokee, Iroquois, and Lakota
We are Navajo, Algonquin, and Dakota
Our lands were open and free to ...

The Grand Canyon

...From the Painted Desert, head west
Past sagebrush, brittle bush, desert scrub
And The Petrified Forest at rest
To the Rocky Mountains above
Go past the Continental Divide
Below Douglas firs and ...

If the Past Was Never

...Lately, a kiss is a long lost wish.
We've both forgotten how to care.
So just in case you never remember,
I will tattoo "love" behind your eyelids
so you will see it when you sleep
and forget th...

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