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Indigenous Poems - Poems about Indigenous

Lure Of Liberty
Aside from its indigenous natives when those there United States (home of the braves) were first settled by white colonists and pioneers it was advertised with a carrot (not a torch) held by copper-sheathed Lady Liberty with book candle (no bell) française est elle with the slogan 'Land of the Free' propaganda of the day it's enough to make one sick as today there's far less...

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Categories: indigenous, america, freedom, how i
Form: Rhyme
FIRE
River makes its final clunk Between Hills Rolling boulders like turtle shells Empty of their mouths and hearts River bent Flailing legs and neck No longer reflects The sun and moon From water’s absence down its back. Turns her terrible brittle head From me Teeth gnashing on the spools of willow To her memory When mud was forest Footsteps Croaking with frogs and dazzled with dragonflies Ringed in a halo of cold...

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Categories: indigenous, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse



Atrocity
Whether the Indigenous People, robed in leathers, head dressed in feathers, who had their own sovereign nations, wanted it or not, June 2nd 1924, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge condescendingly signed the Snyder Act, a.k.a., the Indian Citizenship Act, into law, thereby conferring American citizenship on American Indians. He had it backwards, it was no more than an affront as, whether the Indigenous People wanted them or not, it was...

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Categories: indigenous, america, identity, political, western,
Form: Free verse
When you ask me who I am
When you ask me who I am, I can not be sure what to say. Am I a savage woman? My answer might dismay. Do I know what family is? It is surely hard to say. You see, Not too long ago in this country of the strong and free, My people had their freedom taken  and it has long since wore it’s effect...

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Categories: indigenous, abuse, change, childhood, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Indigenous Passions
Unreciprocated passion is not yet resonant compassion Unreturned love feels dissonantly lonely Failure to cooperatively thrive Longing for health giving mindful exotic double-binding cobinary relationship Strong wealth receiving resiliently embodied erotic co-elationship....

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Categories: indigenous, health, loneliness, love, lust,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Premium Member On Paying Alms to Ceasar
When Jesus was asked about whether or not it is healthy and safe for the colonized Jewish people to pay taxes to kleptocratic Ceasar, he said to give back to Ceasar what is his. What is his, to serve WeSacredPeople mind/body health and environmental safety? Christ's implied church v state reverse corrollary: Do not give Ceasar what is not...

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Categories: indigenous, america, christian, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member INDIGENOUS PRAYER TO CELEBRATE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
(May we hear and breathe the words of our indigenous ancestors And may we all be so lucky as to have an indigenous future) Life is a beautiful word. Oh Great Spirit As we walk across the Earth Teach us Help us find Peace Dignity Respect The courage and strength to be brave Wisdom and truth Kindness Honesty Humility We look to you for love Compassion and honor So we can make a...

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Categories: indigenous, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Indigenous People's Of China
Mountain people in China Never waste their plants Whether bamboo or banana They utilize the whole plants From roots to stalks Leaves and fruits To create sellable products They handmade bamboo Arts and crafts They are one of the most Creative and industrious People of the world....

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Categories: indigenous, character, culture, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Animating Innate Vibrance
What might be your perfect way to awake with joy and gratitude each morning within this new day old way of opportunity and mourning? This morning's epic re-awakening into Beloved Paradise opens health humored eyes to see a full bright winter moon shining through bedroomed windows greeting pale yellow dawn fading starlit sky of not quite night. To awake fully knowing I am more than tolerated trauma and...

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Categories: indigenous, health, integrity, light, moon,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
futile to the fed
they call it our independence we were never dependent they'll rape our only mothers make us repent it they'll sell our land and bomb us when we tent on it they'll condemn our freedom after forcing us to shoot for it morals are futile to the fed to the hungry well, different story —Tony O'manachain...

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Categories: indigenous, arabic, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Brilliant Resilience
Singing with outside transcendent ego-theistic wealthy resonant voice while dancing inside Eartheistic healthy resilient choice RePresents ancient sacred reconnections of messianic verbal thoughts invoking bodhisattva nonverbal feelings Amusing muse vocations re-presenting compassionate communications contentiously contenting indigenous EarthTribe wisdom Singing while dancing mindbody humanely divine crown/root chakra expanding circles of resonant resilience....

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Categories: indigenous, dance, health, integrity, mental
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Hika Bay
Hika Bay Silent hawks appear outside our window two,then four,now six form a floating dimond A kettle of hawks roam high on ancient air sent by first peoples to remind us We dont own these wonders they belong to Hika Bay we are just the latest interlopers Frozen in place in the sky the gray sky before the rain comes PJB...

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Categories: indigenous, animal, appreciation, bird, environment,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Indigenous Wisdom
Back in the day, before right hand leftbrain dominance became our mean girl weaponized thing Our bilaterally balanced grandmothers, whether Eastern Taoists or Western Animists (and almost certainly both) did not think to separate Left from Right, mind from body, passion from pleasure, if only because our peak experiences are more co-passionately resonant than mind v body dissonant, unhealthy universal spirit v unitarian nature, unwealthy crown v root chakra dissociative discommunication. Our great-grandmother...

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Categories: indigenous, happiness, health, integrity, passion,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member THANKFUL FOR THE OJIBWA
Today I’m thankful for the Ojibwa… whose simple prayer…this simple verse Could, if heeded by all of us change the destiny of our universe… For they know, as I wish we knew, how everyone is our sister and our brother And if we were all taught love, compassion and honor we have a chance not only to heal the Earth but also…to heal...

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Categories: indigenous, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member THANKFUL FOR INDIGENOUS WISDOM
Today I’m thankful for Indigenous wisdom wisdom that needs to be respected… The earth is not a resource to use up…they believed It is an heirloom to be treasured and protected...

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Categories: indigenous, thanks, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

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