Happiness Native American Poems
These Happiness Native American poems are examples of Native American poems about Happiness. These are the best examples of Native American Happiness poems written by international poets.
Clouds of Grey HuesClouds of grey hues,
Swim across the air above.
A dove is flying high,
Racing to reach his nest below.
You can feel the rain,
Drizzling droplets...
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native american, 5th grade, april, beauty,
There For MeLooking 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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native american, 12th grade, character, hope,
It Knocked, So I Built a DoorSomeone once said,
"If opportunity doesn't knock,
build...
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native american, adventure, career, confidence, devotion,
Mayan Poetry TranslationsMayan Poetry Translations
The Receiving of the Flower
excerpt from a Mayan love poem
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Let us sing overflowing with joy
as we observe the...
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native american, america, happiness, love, marriage,
Blue SkyBlue Sky
Rocks.
Deep in the ground.
Pulled from the darkness
by the sweat of brave men,
ever challenging the black.
Holes in the ground that hold the...
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native american, america, hero, history, hope,
Your ShoesYour Shoes
Are the wrong size.
I never liked how they looked, but I was silent.
You made me that way, for a long time.
Not forever.
All grown...
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native american, anger, anti bullying, grandfather,
The Homeless PoetA homeless poet
A few days ago, I was walking home with my dollar store notebook in my hand as I walked. I was deep in...
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native american, for him, heartbroken, home,
BrightBright
A tiny seed and plain dirt.
Water, sunshine, and faith.
Then… not quickly, not slowly…
but… at the right moment.
A delight to the eyes,
and a magnificent...
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native american, anti bullying, emotions, inspirational,
Lurking DarknessLurking Darkness
Sleep now my love,
you have earned a great rest.
It has been hard on you.
It has been hard on us.
There is still...
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native american, anti bullying, hope, how
Native American TranslationsNative American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk...
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america, earth, native american,
January CalendarOpening a new 2019 calendar,
January unveils an Arctic Wildlife Refuge view
of glaciered mountains
behind a frozen river
surrounded by bedrocks
grey and bleak black
and rusty brown.
The Wilderness...
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native american, culture, health, hope, humor,
My Ancestors Told MeI will love you
Regardless if you hate me because I'm not white
I will love you
Even if your nickname for me is Spic
I will love you
because...
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native american, america, anger, deep, family,
Soul In Limbotanned skin
dark hair
dark eyes
his Indian spirit skin deep
trapped in the city
out of his element
the suffocated call for freedom
a prisoner by any other name
quelled urge to...
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native american, adventure, angst, emotions, freedom,
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It interests me
that Hiawatha,
like Jesus of Nazareth before him,
and Mahatma Gandhi after,
taught WinWin cooperative peace
by co-investing in ego/ecotherapeutic justice.
Yet anti-Catholic
anti-Muslim
anti-Jewish
anti-indigenous
anti-First SacredNation
anti-goodfaith-trusting-inclusive-extended-family-cooperativist
Protestant reformists...
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native american, america, anti bullying, caregiving,
Dreams
Your talking dreams, now you're in my realm
The dreams are not what the actor's film
You want the truth, or fact, even faith,
reality and dream,...
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native american, allusion, animal, beautiful, beauty,