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Childhood Native American Poems

These Childhood Native American poems are examples of Native American poems about Childhood. These are the best examples of Native American Childhood poems written by international poets.


Indian Summer
Every summer, there were always places
In which we slumbered together.
I once believed it’d all be lost forever.
No matter, however, we’ll always be together.
Be it through...

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Categories: native american, childhood, family, life, native



There For Me
Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Categories: native american, 12th grade, character, hope,

Premium Member Bergfried
I.	  The Settlement

          Hickory bark bluffs
         ...

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Categories: native american, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth,

Premium Member Finding My Spirit
I started my school years in a strict Catholic school
run by nuns and I was terrified of them
with their black hoods and caps
like death dressed...

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Categories: childhood, native american,

Premium Member Native Americans, Truth In the Telling
Native Americans, Truth In The Telling
         NOT FOR CONTEST

Savage was their race, deep cuts in their blows
Brave...

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Categories: native american, appreciation, character, dedication, history,



Indigenous Silver Spoon
I want to live in my mother's cheekbones that kiss the moon,
then climb down her braids and fall asleep in my indigenous silver spoon....

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Categories: native american, childhood, culture, daughter, mother,

Games
Marked in heaven by games we play,
Of rhyme we teach or sheep astray,
Before Glory’s horse can be mounted,
“Can we have recognition?”
Hey friend, attention!
Stand up and...

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© Jesse Day  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: native american, black african american, discrimination,

Appalachian Sister
Appalachian Sister 

Wherever I roam, 
You go too.
A piece of home,
Follows.

A smile, a song,
The sound of an owl.
Those Appalachian mountains,
Live inside of me.

Your laughter,
The white...

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Categories: native american, childhood, family, mountains, native

Kansas Tumbleweed
The Kansas Tumbleweed

Dedicated to my dear friend Garry Pfauth 

The canvas of his mind carries;
Like the wild prairie winds.
Painting brushstrokes of memories;
Like ancient unknown friends.

Colors...

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Categories: native american, art, friend, home, native

My Poor Meatball a Fistful of Spaghetti
The underwear bandits watch the tv matinee                  ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: native american, best friend, childhood, family,

Family Grief Family Happiness
Have you ever written anything without sub combing to tears ?
        
    My Family portrait...

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Categories: native american, addiction, autumn, beautiful, beauty,

Premium Member Qualities of Health Engendering Women
They see strengths
Not the limitations
These are people who will make you proud of yourself
They will tell you why you’re special
Trust you to the point you...

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Categories: native american, angel, beautiful, beauty, black

Lasting Freedom
In the beginning I started off as just another nobody from another nowhere trying make it to somewhere as a somebody as everyone else. In...

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Categories: native american, adventure, childhood, death, faith,

They Called Him Tiny Tim
Yeah they called him Tiny Tim....so dam tiny he fitted through the basketball rim
 everytime they were out yeah he was hiding in 
yeah, while...

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Categories: native american, childhood, forgiveness, growing up,

Premium Member The Medicine Man
THE MEDICINE MAN

When I was a girl,
We lived way out back,
In the swamplands where life,
Was hard but no lack,

Of love and good humor,
And inventive fun,
We...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: native american, childhood, family, life, native


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