Thanksgiving Native American Poems

Happy Thanksgiving
By Michelle Morris
23/11/2023

Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving for everything
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving to everyone

Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving and best wishes 
Happy Thanksgiving 
Family love and eternal blessings 

© Michelle Morris, 2023...

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Blessing Beads

      Once more around the park please
      Once more, just so i can see

The...

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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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Spirits of unnatural forgiveness
for past bullying  behavior
and sacred redemption
from internalized shaming,
self-blaming

Begin in our shared multiculturing
co-empathic nature
uncomfortable with win/lose historic
and contemporary choices,
ecopolitical system analyzed
and deep...

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Someone once said, 

        "If opportunity doesn't knock, 
         build...

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My parenting totem
was the Hawk
of bicamerally perfect egocentric vision
usually greeted by a loud Yang squawk
and vigorous walk
in the other wrong direction.

My WiseElder totem
is the Turkey,
CoMessiah...

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On this special day we are asked to be thankful, so let us give thanks.
Let us be thankful for the ignorance that blinds us to...

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It was a nasty war.

To call it an UnCivil War
is to avoid an obvious oxymoron
as embarrassing as Military Vitriolic Intelligence
through lack of Anger and Fear...

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I pledge FirstNative gratitude
for unfederated,
unmitigated
positive local through global
regenerative attitude.

I pledge gratitude to this Sun
and EarthMothers
from whom we come
into trusting democratic wombs
and eggs
and seeds
for which these...

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Explorers had at last
Sailed Atlantic’s girth
And discovered wondrous crops
On the other side of Earth:

Incredible avocados,
Amaizing yellow corn,
And tasty sweet potatoes
Had not been known to yore

Extraordinary...

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The turkey is cooked to a golden brown,
the dressing is perfectly seasoned
All of the family is coming to town
Thanksgiving is the reason

Everyone gathers 
thankful they...

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I would like to pay tribute to those who died
While introducing you to our native pride
We are Cherokee, Iroquois, and Lakota
We are Navajo, Algonquin, and...

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O, Chief Spirit,
thank you for the harvest
that fills our granaries
to the brim.

Thank you for the blue sky
that fills our souls with dreams
and beauty.

Thank you for...

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Treasures and passages, peaceful as land, sky, and sea
Heartland of hope, harvesters and helpful hands
Abundance shows America as plateau of plenty
Natives in November remembers, family...

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Thanksgiving
Has lots of good food
And gratitude, sometimes moods.
Not all celebrate it;
Keeping this in mind,
So you can gain perspective from woes of humankind.
Go to a native...

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