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Premium Member TEACH US LOVE

Today’s blessing is from an Ojibwa prayer…
that goes out to all our human sisters and brothers….

Teach us love, 
compassion 
and honor
that we may heal the Earth…
and at the same time…heal each other.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE NATIVE AMERICAN PRAYER FOR THE GREIVING

Everyone grieves in their own way
that’s a fact not a belief…
Which means there is not date of completion
no timeline for our grief…

To all the thought and prayers 
those who’ve suffered a loss might be receiving…
Today I’m grateful to add
this Native American Prayer of grieving:

I give you this one thought to keep
I am with you still…I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not think of me as gone…
I am with you still…in each new dawn.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member yellow leaf moon

brightest bulb in sky
colors trees with chill and hue ~
	sparks of cold winter

(September Full Moon – Assiniboine)
Form: Haiku

Premium Member ONE CIRCLE OF LIFE

Today I revisit a blessing…we need to hear it more
perhaps that’s why I’ve used it so many times before

It’s from the Native Nations peoples
who had their share of tragedy, heartache and strife…
and how they understood about one particular circle of life…

I imagine long ago they found the beat…
and discovered it by chance:

Dancing is a way to pray
prayer leads to healing
once we heal we can give
to give is to live
and one way to show we appreciate being alive
is to dance.
Form: Rhyme

Party Animal

Party Animal

I see you 
Walking through that door
Standing on two feet
When you should be on four

I see you
Right through your disguise
Every word from your mouth
Nothing more than lies

I see you
Grinning from ear to ear
Won’t be long now
Until fangs and claws appear

I see you 
Such a big talker
But you dont fool me
I know you skin walker
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member NO ONE

Once again I defer today’s blessing to the Native Nations
I hope someday their wisdom will help us understand…
how we are not the total masters…
but only one part of the land

No one owns the water
No one owns the land
No one owns the ocean
No one owns the sand

These are give by our Mother

The Planet provides for free

Only by the hands
of the greedy
does the Earth
require a fee
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member mountain shadows moon

mauve mountain shadows
creep across verdant valley ~
	purple moon rises

(August Full Moon – Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest)
Form: Haiku

Plains of Nod

Amidst thy grassy sea,
Stands a lone cottonwood tree.

A man of red–
His many feathers
Scatter like dust–
Away in the wind.

Amidst thy cottonwood tree,
Lies a man who once was free.

A man of blue–
My musket, aflush
A sacred scarlet–
Stricken with iron.

‘Thy brother’s blood crieth unto me.’

My blank canvas,
Suspends in time–
For I – I
Hath begotten flames–
Unto this rich plain 
Of gold.



My brother in red–
He is dead–
And my sin hath killed him.










In shaking tears,
I run out into the sky–
Chasing his feathers.

Premium Member hot moon

chocolate-cracked earth
sizzling Stygian summer ~
		lizard on a stick
	
(July Full Moon – Native American)
Form: Haiku

A Name By Any Other Arose

Native Americans call me 'Paleface'
'Roundeye' say the Chinese race
to a Scot I'm a 'Sassenach' 'Boyo' to those in Wales
altho' a 'Limey' in New York
I answer to none such hails
once a 'Gweilo' in Hong Kong Down Under was a 'Pom'
you may give a dog a bad name (and/or a bone)
he may even be your (best) 'Pal' don't think me fuddy-duddy
for what's more I have my limits and I'm not your (good) 'Buddy'
then a 'Rooinek' 'round Cape Town
'Farangi' was I in Dubai
and tho' no English rose was a 'Bloke' when there
as originally from Kenya when owned by Blighty
in some parts of the U.S.A. I'm now called 'Whitey'
'Haole' in Hawaii that's me and 'Gringo'
down south in Mexico
seems I'm all things to all men a man of many hats
altho' no they know me not
whether saint or sinner
you may call me what you will
but just not late for dinner
Form: Rhyme

Geronimo - 1829-1909

1905
Geronimo went to Washington
to meet the Great White Father
(where he hoped to bury the hatchet)
and save his Indian Nation...
checking into his hotel, the desk clerk asked,
"Do you have a reservation?"
The perfect poker face when playing cards
(his guards were nearly always broke)
said to be blood-thirsty, his winnings used he
to pay for educating children of the Apache.
He later rode with Pawnee Bill
in what was known as the 'Wild West',
(and what a circus)
a chief he never was,
1909
died of pneumonia all too soon,
'Geronimo Now a Good Indian,'
read the headline of The Chicago Daily Tribune.
Form: Rhyme

Save Our Native Sisters

I as Cherokee must take a stand,
  and say no more missing females from Native lands

Too many have gone missing through the years,
  Along with too much sorrow and tears

I along with my Native sisters must stand and fight,
  Along with our brothers to do what's right

I will shed my blood if need be,
  If another sister is taken it will have to be through me

We as Natives what is right,
  That's why we stand and fight to have no more sisters
  gone out of sight

JUNE BERRIES

Juicy and sweet, these berries delight,
Unique flavor with a hint of almond's bite.
Native to North America's land,
Eaten fresh or dried, both are grand.

Baked into pies or made into jam,
Enjoyed in wines, a treat for the fam.
Rosy bronze leaves in spring's embrace,
Rich in nutrients, a healthful grace.
Indigenous peoples cherished them so,
Essential vitamins they bestow.
Saskatoon berries, nature's gift we know.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member berries ripen moon

mauve to indigo
sweetened by nature's largesse ~
	mockingbird mayhem

(June Full Moon – Haida)
Form: Haiku

Identity and the Mirror of Consciousness




Before the emergence

of consciousness
we were

a reflection of God

Afterward
  unable to perceive identity
    through internal reflection

God became a reflection

of US

Consciousness
  splitting the mirror

        2 hemispheres
            Asking

WHO ARE YOU

But
  No mirror
    Can
      Reflect
         Itself

so in that fracture

Identity
    Becomes
          Alien

External
Something

OTHER

yet even in our exile our human

identity
  remains
    a single facet
       of earth

a lens
  through which
     the planet
        becomes

            Aware Of
                Itself

Thru
    Language
       Breath
         Form

and in the question

that
  echoes
     from her
        still


              WHO ARE YOU
Form: Didactic

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