Prayer Native American Poems
These Prayer Native American poems are examples of Native American poems about Prayer. These are the best examples of Native American Prayer poems written by international poets.
All hail The Silver Skins (with nudity optional)
Not another effort from The Lefts bleating masses, but the sparkily aristocracy of cerebral-celebritys; their binary-duality sweeping earth-wise.
I don't object to...
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native american, columbus day, community, earth
The Legend of Johnny CashI 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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native american, death, dream, music, native
Standing ProudStanding proud and regal the Cheyenne Warrior looks across the land.
Long gone but there was a time the buffalo were as many as the blades...
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history, native american,
I Pray For PeaceMakha' woblu your strength I find
Wit e' spreads her arrows of light to find our way
From the marauding darkness. I pray humbly and kind
For feather...
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native american, peace, prayer, war,
Homethere was never any need
to sway from the bunkers
that evening the way the tall
pines swayed mastering
my innermost self to a tiny...
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native american, africa, america, friendship, native
A Lakota Mother's Prayer‘Wana Hin Gle’ the Lakota call me,
‘Wana Hin Gle’ my given name
‘He Who Happens Now,’ the drumbeat has found me,
reaching into this moment beyond glory...
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native american, prayer,
Whiskey NightI got a belly full of whiskey
I got a puffed up liver and puffed up feathers too
I got a drum to dance to
I got owl...
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memory, native american,
Painted RiverTonight I asked the sacred sky
Reveal the truth before my eyes
and there within its paint did lie
amber sands of a river dry
Once a proud and...
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humanity, metaphor, native american,
Eighth Grade EnglishBack 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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native american, culture, earth day, grandmother,
The Circle of LifeThe nearness of his ancestors spirits
caused a chill. Looking out
over the plains he could hear
the horses hooves, the riders
panting, the buffalo running.
He could smell...
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blessing, native american,
Healing Power of the Drumyour labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done
I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...
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inspirational, native american, prayer,
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
...
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native american, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth,
Winter PrayerKiji Manito, winter is coming on and the days have grown shorter
Let me not complain
Let me see the beauty of winter and longer nights
I have...
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native american, appreciation, blessing, creation, devotion,
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,
Mercy, TurnedCold and sodden
The rain fell heavy in the night
As if his sins were known to the sky gods
And, in mercy, sought to wash them off...
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native american, analogy, forgiveness, humanity, native