Loss Native American Poems
These Loss Native American poems are examples of Native American poems about Loss. These are the best examples of Native American Loss poems written by international poets.
The Legend of Big Indian, Part Ii...For years they both lived there
in the crisp mountain air,
the rolling ridges were their home,
it was not written down,
so what pleasures they found
are only to...
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native american, america, history, loss, lost
The Legend of Big Indian, Part IHear this recitation
the Lenape nation
bore a child of extreme size,
in the Onteoras,
the Catskills of yore now,
this man would live out his whole life.
Winisook was his...
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native american, america, history, loss, lost
LossShe 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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native american, divorce, family, heartbreak, native
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part ViiVII.
Reid’s eyes widened with the realization,
she was with child? How long had she known?
His mind reeled and more men gathered outside,
by this time his cover...
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native american, adventure, family, history, loss,
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part ViVI.
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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native american, adventure, family, history, loss,
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part VV.
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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native american, adventure, family, history, loss,
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part IvIV.
It was two years later, at age nineteen,
Reid was out checking new traps in a pond,
just his routine, when he heard a loud shout,
ran for...
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native american, adventure, family, history, loss,
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part IiiIII.
“Eagle Vision says since his own son died
he’s felt a hollow no raiding can fill,
that men should be fathers, pass their wisdom
to adopt you as...
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native american, adventure, family, history, loss,
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part IiII.
They did not use Reid Gibson that kindly
as they drove him swiftly on up the trail,
when he fell behind or misunderstood
the two would both strike...
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native american, adventure, family, history, loss,
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part II.
When he was born he was named Reid Gibson,
and his parents weren’t the richest of folk,
didn’t have money to buy land back east,
so off to...
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native american, adventure, family, history, loss,
On the HillOn the hill, a mother
is desperate to nurse babies
who have gone still and silent,
with milk they'll never take
She knows they are not sleeping...
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native american, animal, bereavement, birth, child,
The Last Winter of the Ghost RoadThe death winter came and was cold
With white on the purple mountain
The Tiwahe’, the Standing Rock People
Begged for warm fires from Iktinie the Sun Spirit
Our...
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native american, courage, culture, death, endurance,
Let Me Share the Winds Flight TodayLet Me Share the Winds Flight Today
Let me share the winds flight today
Moving to and fro knowing no boundaries
Lifting the fall leaves in a beautiful...
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native american, bible, how i feel,
Black-Footed FerretsBlack-Footed Ferrets are listed as, endangered
and are the most endangered mammals, in Northern America
They inhabit the grasslands of, the Northern Great Plains
and are the only...
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native american, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
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,