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Death Native American Poems

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


The Legend of Johnny Cash
I dreamed of Johnny Cash last night,
his music spoke to me,
I said I thought that you were dead,
but music lives said he,
but music lives said...

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Categories: native american, death, dream, music, native



Premium Member WALK ON
I wonder how different our world would be if throughout our history
we saw everyone as our sister and our brother….
If we realized how much we...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, native american,

Premium Member Please Don't Kill My Wolves
Kings and queens of the timberland,
their pups learning their royal birthright,
running, running in freedom's natural gift,
as the winter ochre moon rises above
the ridge,
the pack howling...

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Categories: native american, 6th grade, 7th grade,

Premium Member Maria Tallchief
Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief
bigotry gave her grief
failing health, unsteady,
she railed, “Get my swan costume ready!”...

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Categories: native american, celebrity, dance, death, native

Premium Member Rondeau No 1
At Wounded Knee, we haunt the hill
Where many moons ago we were killed
As herds of buffalo wax and wane
And big sky and silence don't profane
But...

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Categories: death, history, native american,



Death of a Warrior
Inspired by a storyline from a show. The Native American tribal culture is beautiful. This is written in honour of their Light. 

Death of a...

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Categories: native american, courage, death, life, native

Everything Is Connected
Inspired by Charmed, Season 3, Episode 14: "The Good, the Bad and the Cursed". A lesson about courage and doing the right thing.  Bo's...

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Categories: native american, earth, earth day, environment,

Premium Member Anger of the Wind
We Apache take owls in a storm as a warning
This owl was exceptionally fierce looking
I cringed, instantly thinking of death and destruction
I could hear the...

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Categories: native american, wind,

Premium Member Spirits In the Sky
I feel my spirit gradually ebbing away,
So, when I eventually lie down to die,
Will my ancestors save a place for me
Around the great camp-fire in...

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Categories: native american, america, anxiety, death, faith,

Premium Member Dogon Mask Dancers Biggest Job
Dogon mask dancer is nervous for the first time in twenty-six years
For the newly departed is his favorite grandfather, mountain deer man.
He has not done...

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Categories: death, native american, relationship,

Loss
She smiled a toothy smile with perfect sized lips and straight white teeth welcoming me,
Her face perfectly symmetrical except for one brown eye shaped slightly...

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Categories: native american, divorce, family, heartbreak, native

A Mountain Man's Tale, Part Vi
VI.
When his pa had died, Reid had just felt fear,
he’d been a child, the pain overwhelming,
but to see Eagle Vision lying dead…
he felt a blind...

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Categories: native american, adventure, family, history, loss,

A Mountain Man's Tale, Part V
V.
She knew he was right, and had little choice,
winter had set in, travel was hard,
but Reid had killed elk, frozen meat to spare,
the ponds he...

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Categories: native american, adventure, family, history, loss,

Nation
a social commentary

Among the vast of sea and land
Where a nation is born
Where a nation arises from the ashes to stand
Upon other large shoulders.

And coming...

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Categories: native american, america, black african american,

Mad American Empire: Wilderness Ii
Out into the wilderness haunted by ghost town’s ancient bloodstains and lost history scars. 

We wander the dark borderlands between awakening dreams and incandescent seams....

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Categories: native american, allegory, america, analogy, art,


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