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Navaho Poems - Poems about Navaho

An Uncool Poem about Melting Beers
...Red cones on the blacktop August is a burning blanket. Dusty crows perch on long dead armadillos. The Chevys' air-con chokes up a warm blow. A Navaho in Ohio has phoned. he needs to talk abou......

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Categories: navaho, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tribute To Rainbow Owl
...navaho rainbow owl appear to me in my dreams show me my intended paths bring the people I need into my life you are my totem, my rock, my strength you bring me my power and my wealth I am i......

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Categories: navaho, animal,
Form: Free verse



Claim the Skies Back
...Claim the Skies Back Eastern Alleppo, weighed down like a ghetto Destroyed like Navaho By the unfathomably destructive deeds of a single generation Distorted venerations based on misinterpretat......

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Categories: navaho, international,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Are You
...snail peeked out of his owner’s Navaho backpack where was his owner? They would be late for the geology test. He knew he had been dropped accidentally he began whistling......

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Categories: navaho, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ahem, Grandpa Tequila
...The Holy Bible is a Journal. On the desk, and it's definitely not made of Mahogany, it's lightly-stained Oak. The blanket is Navaho. It's All Sacred. Those Impeccable Tribes of the D......

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Categories: navaho, age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: ABC



Premium Member Little Bear Meets Wedge of Cranes
...An energetic wedge of blue cranes doing mating dances entered into Little Bear’s dream state without warning Are they my totem? My spiritual advisors? My power animals? He believed in such things,......

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Categories: navaho, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Dreamcatcher Makes Room For Hope
...Navaho woman gathers eagle feathers in a thoughtful way Understanding their mystical properties better than most The feathers invite ancestral spirits to gather their soul clan The resulting entic......

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Categories: navaho, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deliberately Flawed
...---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deliberately Flawed Makers of pottery, rug weavers too, from varied cultures- plan each design; create ......

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Categories: navaho, dedication, god,
Form: Rhyme
Perspectives
...I might have seen, (not on a movie or television screen), but had looked where the mind flickers when I am not there to block the view. In that place, where my dreams see through a dar......

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Categories: navaho, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rite of Passage
...He salutes the mountains Tehachapi to the west San Gabriel and San Bernardino to the south This is his rite of passage His coming of age How he’s yearned For his spiritual journey To become a......

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Categories: navaho, age, boy, courage, growing
Form: Free verse
Hangover Reflections
...Hang Over Reflections Last night a Korean friend from Virginia came for a two week visit He brought with him a 30-year Bottle of Ballentine whiskey. Of course, we must drink it and then we must......

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Categories: navaho, addiction, celebration, cheer up,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Sorrow's Holocaust
...Where have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota, And the Sioux, Choking for a breath of life's sustaining air, Smothered beneath the white man's blanket. The beating heart of native drums, are ......

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Categories: navaho, dedication, emotions, heartbroken, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tribute To 'Navaho Madonna'
... Wild horses, prairies, desert canyons, Native Indians, brush landscapes by 'Dean of Western Painters' known as Olaf Wieghorst. His contrast boldness, softened with light blended hues, st......

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Categories: navaho, art, beautiful, love, western,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member The Last Stand
...THE LAST STAND Where have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota, and the Sue, Smothered beneath the white man's blanket, Chocking for a breath of airs life's sustaining oxygen. The beating hea......

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Categories: navaho, dark, death, grief, history,
Form: Free verse
The Fox, the Wolf, the Coyote,
...The Fox: 1. the blare of the horn snooty hooves of fire red coats... panting for my life 2. briar rabbit ears twisting in my angry grip... more tall tales are told ......

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Categories: navaho, animals, imagination, nature
Form: Haiku

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