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Grandmother Native American Poems

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


Premium Member Grandmother Spider Weaves
Grandmother spider’s weaving is intricate, delicate, beyond compare
Like Belgium lace or the intricate weave of a bamboo chair
She spins her truth by night, it gets...

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Categories: native american,



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

Premium Member Grandmother Kauai
Grandmother Kauai
Empathetic healer
Keeper of soul secrets
Confidante of the fey
Shamanic wise woman
Guardian of the forest
Night sky walker...

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Categories: native american,

Brown Boy Dreams
Brown boy sleeps with his head on his grandmothers lap, 
 
She combs his pitch black hair as he drifts off
 
Brown boy dreams, of...

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Categories: dream, native american,

Premium Member Eighth Grade English
Back in Eighth Graded Class
of StraightWhiteMale English privilege
I learned all healthy narratives
must have at least one
of three tension intentions

Unlike sacred mythic prayer and fable 
multicultures...

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Categories: native american, culture, earth day, grandmother,



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 Auntie Running Bear and Her Charges
The great spirits began to dance their thanksgiving song
Grandmother Forest watched with pride and thoughtfulness
Auntie Running Bear had formed Brother Fire, and was seeking
Truth from...

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Categories: native american,

Premium Member Hearing Grandmother Sky
Spiritual ways personified gladly 
Choices given to her easily in her dreams 
Her relaxed soul hears her spirit guides
Her power animals snort and hiss.
She hears...

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Categories: dream, native american,

Undocumented Warrior
Undocumented Warrior

By George W. Clever-----2002

I sneaked into this country on moccasin feet
No one knew I was here
Till one day someone asked 
Where is your C.D.I.B....

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Categories: native american, america, culture, freedom, native

Mist
Spider grandmother
Weaver of the web,
Whispers to the hummingbird ;
"Fly little one, set your wings
 Upon this world of darkness.
 Replenish the oil
 Much needed today.
 Increasing the frequency,
 Allowing understanding
 Too...

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Categories: allegory, native american, nature,

Granny's Tonic
Oh the daily news got to her
But; she couldn't turn away
It was like watching a train wreck
Though it made her nerves so frayed

Each night she...

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Categories: native american, anxiety, grandmother, humor, mythology,

Appalachian Granny Magic
Oh cousin what can I do
That man I'm married to
Stays drunk and runs around
He's nothing but a hound

All our money goes to his booze
Wolves howling...

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Categories: native american, endurance, grandmother, humorous, magic,

Not Stanley
Not Stanley

Laughing, I said “My stone’s name is Stanley.”
But as soon as the words left my mouth,
I knew that I was wrong.

My name is not...

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Categories: environment, native american,

Cayugan Tears
My wheat ringlets 
join my grandmother's thick dark hair 
— incompatible 
to those who throw stones 
and call me "white Indian"...

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Categories: native american, bullying, grandmother, heartbreak, native

Premium Member Clumsy Cousins
I wonder if THC
and our Holy Cooperative Spirit
could be cousins
like Grandmother Moon
and Grandmother Tree.

Why do you want to wonder 
about something as curious as that,
dear?

Oh,...

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Categories: native american, cousin, health, humor, myth,


Book: Shattered Sighs