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Wild Rice

...Beneath the Wolf’s breath, rocks cradle my resting form. Wild rice sways, whispers— nature's soft secrets unfurl, beauty bathed in dawn's light. Note: Wild rice growing at mouth of Wolf River......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, native american, nature, river,
Form: Tanka

Easter Musing

...On Fort Apache Indian Reservation, in Arizona, there is an old pueblo ruin called, "Kinishba", aka "Dull brown house in the middle of nowhere". On a hill overlooking Kinishba, there is an older r......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, humanity,
Form: Narrative

Childhood and Youth Hikes With Dad

...Sit down here on this mountain pine covered ridge Wait for the mid-morning sun, about ten o’clock, See now Blue Point canyon and air turn thick blue “Look! Look Mom! It’s blue.”, the whole air a......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, adventure, appreciation, boy, dad,
Form: Rhyme

A Historic Event

...In the heart of my heart I cry for you in the harbor of my despair I feel your emptiness a land once yours was lost stolen by men whose hearts were cold and whose greed and hate knew no bounds ......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, betrayal, conflict, death, native
Form: Free verse

Crazy Horse Monument

...Crazy Horse Monument Up there! On the Black Hills Mountain, 1 A work in progress sculptured in granite, Of a stern faced warrior, strong and determined, 2 Unadorned in a wa......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, america, education, history, native
Form: Verse

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 ......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, appreciation, introspection,
Form: Concrete

A Historic Event

...“They took the whole Cherokee nation Put us on this reservation Took away our ways of life The tomahawk and the bow and knife” From “Indian Reservation” by Paul Revere and the Raiders ......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, native american,
Form: Free verse

Memorable Vacations

...Memorable vacations weren't in my future Elk season came around and guess where my husband spent vacation My desire to acquire a vacation with him to a romantic paradise wasn’t meant to be Over a......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, vacation,
Form: Acrostic

Words--For Awesome Ann

...Lady Madonna she's a lady street fighting man, when Julie comes around daughter of darkness. All along the watchtower incense and peppermints; crimson and clover not dark yet. Angel of the morn......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, angel,
Form: Free verse

Pretty La Conner

...La Conner is such a pretty small town That has grown and has changed for many years. One of the first settlements in the state, It is so much more than it first appears. Many buildings from the......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, places,
Form: Quatrain

Ode To Mastic

...I walk down Mastic Road And look into the open yards Where grass grows Taller than houses. Flowers hang down From branches of decrepit trees, Singing off key praises To the grimy streets Wher......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, dedication, hope, people, places,
Form: Free verse

The Cross and the Lance...Pt 2

...Everything was property of the state life of a serf didn't even rate tyranny from Lords,Dukes and Barons production of goods,they weren't sharin'.... Coxcomb magistrate castle seneschal inter......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, history, political
Form: Free verse

The Pearl

...There's beauty in the smallest pearl-- the darkest grain of sand-- the cry of eagle and of lark-- the curve of sea and land-- I have seen it in the human heart -- within it, folded down: beauty......Read the rest...

Categories: indian reservation, inspirational, life, philosophy, uplifting
Form: Verse