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Lure Of Liberty

Aside from its indigenous natives
when those there United States
(home of the braves)
were first settled by white colonists and pioneers
it was advertised with a carrot
(not a torch)
held by copper-sheathed Lady Liberty
with book candle 
(no bell)
française est elle
with the slogan 'Land of the Free'
propaganda of the day it's enough to make one sick
as today there's far less

Categories: natives, america, freedom, how i
Form: Rhyme

The Glorious Machine

In the past we had to rip them from their mothers
   screaming, crying ... afraid
and remold them in our image
   antiquated traditions to be discarded
   minds and values to be upgraded
   by the Machine

Oh! The Glorious Machine ...

But the smoky, grinding beast of old has evolved itself

Categories: natives, native american, scary, slavery,
Form: Free verse

Pacha MaMa

"Pacha MaMa"
(written by Michelle L LeBlanc 07/20/2024)


Pacha Mama, sweet Mother Earth
I find peace within your presence
From you, much life has given birth

I am thankful to you today
For peace within your wings
As I sit under your branches
As my heart learns to sing

Your beauty all around me
Such peace within your arms
As I ground in your presence
It shuts

Categories: natives, encouraging, native american, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Mocking the Dead

Mocking the dead, is that a thing?
How many ways can one be disrespecting?
Laws that cause offenders to be free?
Rape kits that exist only to be not breached.

Little lies and big divides of right and wrong genocide.
Our forefathers could not ever predict
We would be as disrespectful as this.
Ancestors bones surely roll like river
As the wicked become

Categories: natives, america, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Adivasi, the Natives

Natives,  Adivasi, however we identify them,
They were there before we came, and took over their land from them,
We used them, displaced them, put a dagger of pain in their hearts,
They only shed tear of grief, which were not even allowed to come out of their heart.

The aboriginal people from ancient jungle,
They danced in peacock

Categories: natives, native american,
Form: Free verse

Alter Natives

Natives and relatives all positives
Alter natives isn’t an alternative
Focusing mind to picture negatives

Categories: natives, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Nature Love Is Self-Love, For Healthy Organs and Secretions

I
The former Minister said, "You are born out of the world,"
Not into it! Think of a flower, How is it born?
Myriads of marvelous blooms are born into the world
And we, humans, want to be sui generis, alone!

II
When you think of a wonderful waterfall, serene
Your (thyroid &) internal organs calibrate your fuel efficiently
By forsaking angry thoughts,

Categories: natives, angst, bible, health, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Natives

I can hear the drums beating
They are beckoning me to come
I can hear the drums beating
Murmuring what is taking me so long
I can hear the drums beating  
And it is singing a merry little song
I can hear the drums beating
And it is calling me to have fun
Bang, bang, bang
 The drum beat echoes through

Categories: natives, absence, beauty, courage, cry,
Form: Narrative

Restless Natives

Creative Native, quite contemplative-
he draws on walls in ancient caves.
So Hieroglyphic speculative:
Cuneiform curses mark mummy graves.

On land the sand, the grains of Man-
exoplated, protective shells.
A last ballast, we're sinking fast;
step lively men, and hoist the sails!

The Tribe has grown and it has thrived-
(their drumbeats echo as if alive!)
We've lost our rudder, I wince and shudder,
and

Categories: natives, boat, journey, ocean,
Form: Sonnet

When the Natives Are Restless

(7/5 Trochee rhyme form)

They’re coming. Listen closely.
Hear that distant thrum. . . 
that steady thrum- thrum- thrumming
of a tom-tom drum.

There! Beyond the cornfield rows.
Tell me, don’t you see
the tops of feathers moving
forward stealthily?

They’re so close to the house now!
Soon they’ll reach the fence.
Where have all the cowboys gone?
War will soon commence!

Wait! I saw the bushes

Categories: natives, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme

The Natives Plunder

Jewels covered the earth,
And gold paved the streets.
Like an Eden amongst Eden’s.
And fruits grew everywhere,
Even in the sea and the air.

Words like baron and land,
Never touched skin, or formed words together to touch the lips of natives.
Natives that planted and deeply rooted there feet’s unto the soil,
And whose hands stretched towards the sun like flowers.

Then

Categories: natives, life
Form: Free verse

Wronged Natives

At first they called them savages
then took away their land,
then they called them primitive
and didn't understand.

They had their own society
before the white man came,
who forced them into slavery
which filled their hearts with shame.

Pushed into reservations
and told they had to stay,
forget about the life they had
and learn a different way.

Forced to live a white mans life
with

Categories: natives, native american
Form: Rhyme