Lakota Poems - Poems about Lakota

...For Papa That monster inside us devouring the past Our memories hunted most recent to last No mercy is shown us as darkness creeps in Today and tomorrow —lost into the wind (Tribute To......Read the rest...

...battle between bucks deadly duel-decided ~ scavengers spectate (November Full Moon – Dakota and Lakota)......Read the rest...

...mustard spreads its warmth stone ground with bits of bold brown ~ leaves valiant passing (September Full Moon – Lakota)......Read the rest...

...Makha' woblu your strength I find Wit e' spreads her arrows of light to find our way From the marauding darkness. I pray humbly and kind For feather and fawn to softly rest on the hearts of our oy......Read the rest...

...when the ducks return pink mosses utter volumes ~ Lakota listen (April Full Moon – Lakota)......Read the rest...

...searing shining sun bedazzling snowmelt season ~ a sight for sore eyes (March Full Moon – Dakota, Lakota, Assiniboine)......Read the rest...

...The Lakota Sioux tell a story about the sun and moon which is ultimately a story about love…and loss… about two tribes that lived on either side of a river… a river they were forbidden to cross. ......Read the rest...

...When shadows fall across embattled land Dusk creeps slowly westward over the plains Comes a-wailing, howling of the coyotes Searching for prey among the dry creek runs Thirsty anim......Read the rest...

...‘Wana Hin Gle’ the Lakota call me, ‘Wana Hin Gle’ my given name ‘He Who Happens Now,’ the drumbeat has found me, reaching into this moment beyond glory and fame As ‘Wana Hin Gle,’ my spirit h......Read the rest...

...I love art and I love history….and I love how each one is transcended when, to my joy and utter delight, the two of them are blended . On a bluff overlooking the Missouri River in South Dakota st......Read the rest...

...Off to Mount Rushmore To see the presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, Men of enormous stature In the land of The Lakota, Keystone, South Dakota Fourteen years undertaking......Read the rest...

...On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry When they sighted a party of Indians from the Lakota nation And told them......Read the rest...

...DRUM CIRCLE FEBRUARY 16, 2018 Tonight we talked to the earth with our drums, our pulsating prayers a rhythm and blues, a galloping growl, an angry lament, a wretched outpouring at the new Hun......Read the rest...

...When shadows fall across embattled land Dusk creeps slowly westward over the plains Comes a wailing, howling of the coyotes Searching for prey among the dry creek runs. Thirsty ......Read the rest...

...The wolf demands what the shepherd can’t protect A busy hand helps the angry heart forget (Pine Ridge South Dakota: July, 2019) ‘To Mari Sandoz’......Read the rest...