Long Navaho Poems
Long Navaho Poems. Below are the most popular long Navaho by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Navaho poems by poem length and keyword.
The Last StandTHE LAST STAND
Where have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota, and the Sue,
Smothered beneath the white man's blanket,
Chocking for a breath of airs life's sustaining oxygen.
The beating heart of native drums, are stilled frozen,
In...
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Categories:
navaho, dark, death, grief, history, holocaust, inspirational, native
Form:
Free verse
Sorrow's HolocaustWhere have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota,
And the Sioux,
Choking for a breath of life's sustaining air,
Smothered beneath the white man's blanket.
The beating heart of native drums, are stilled, frozen
In the middle of it's...
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Categories:
navaho, dedication, emotions, heartbroken, imagery, inspirational, native american,
Form:
Free verse
Hangover ReflectionsHang Over Reflections
Last night a Korean friend from Virginia came for a two week visit He brought with him a 30-year Bottle of Ballentine whiskey. Of course, we must drink it and then we...
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Categories:
navaho, addiction, celebration, cheer up, pain,
Form:
Acrostic
Claim the Skies BackClaim the Skies Back
Eastern Alleppo, weighed down like a ghetto
Destroyed like Navaho
By the unfathomably destructive deeds
of a single generation
Distorted venerations based on misinterpretations
Perpetuate these continuingly heinous altercations
Contriving unjustifiable infiltrations
Forcing unnecessary segregations of nation upon...
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Categories:
navaho, international,
Form:
Rhyme
Deliberately Flawed----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Deliberately Flawed
Makers of pottery, rug weavers too,
from varied cultures- plan each design;
create flawed patches in work that they do-
since only God is perfection, divine.
The Navaho...
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Categories:
navaho, dedication, god,
Form:
Rhyme
PerspectivesI might have seen,
(not on a movie or television screen),
but had looked where the mind flickers
when I am not there
to block the view.
In that place, where my dreams
see...
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Categories:
navaho, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Fox, the Wolf, the Coyote,The Fox:
1. the blare of the horn
snooty hooves of fire red coats...
panting for my life
2. briar rabbit ears
...
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Categories:
navaho, animals, imagination, nature
Form:
Haiku
Rite of PassageHe salutes the mountains Tehachapi to the west
San Gabriel and San Bernardino to the south
This is his rite of passage
His coming of age
How he’s yearned
For his spiritual journey
To become a man
Thirsting to prove...
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Categories:
navaho, age, boy, courage, growing up, journey, native
Form:
Free verse
Little Bear Meets Wedge of CranesAn energetic wedge of blue cranes doing mating dances
entered into Little Bear’s dream state without warning
Are they my totem? My spiritual advisors? My power animals?
He believed in such things, being Navaho.
He asked the revered...
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Categories:
navaho, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, animal,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Counter CultureToday's closing hangs lower than it did yesterday,
trying to mess with tomorrow's dreams.
Sitting here, dressed in a wry smile, my heart
whispers to a sky, tie-dyed with the jewel
of Navaho stone and...
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Categories:
navaho, native american, nature,
Form:
Free verse