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Ojibway Poems - Poems about Ojibway

hotel ojibway

...view of rich soo locks 
grand hotel that's aged well 
among new venues...

Categories: ojibway, travel,
Form: Haiku

Moving Mountains For Me

...
ever since I can remember I have known bullies
it began in grammar school
           I was different
part Ojibway .... they called me Indian Princess
but not in a nice way
my grandma only ...

Categories: ojibway, bullying, courage, strength,
Form: Free verse

Drums and Flutes

...

and the drums beat, beat, beat
and flutes and voices float
and the eagle
calls me
and the wolves howl, howl, howl
oh, a wind is whistling, whirling, whispering
come, come, come
and in ...

Categories: ojibway, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Finding Remains - B

...In Canada, the First Indigenous Communities sadly watched as the ground 
penetrating high-tech equipment searched and found the unmarked graves
of residential school children. These children were t...

Categories: ojibway, history, time,
Form: Prose Poetry

Sweet and Silly Names

... I have been called 'names' besides my name
to grandpa I was 'Funny Girl'
I would stomp my foot but still to him I came
he was funny and I wish that I could be Funny Girl again

My s...

Categories: ojibway, funny, silly, sweet,
Form: Rhyme

My Heart, Soul, and Spirit

... 
"The meaning of life is our knowing participation with the
 greater powers around us, in us, and within us. "

                                          by _Robert James Liguori
__...

Categories: ojibway, spiritual,
Form: Verse

Words Are Weapons

...
in my life-
some    have tried to murder my spirit-
to assassinate my soul
with their single-mindfulness

nincompoops    mean and nasty

torture   brutal massacres relentless
running ho...

Categories: ojibway, murder,
Form: Free verse

Blueberry Festival In Sioux Lookout

...Blueberry Festival In Sioux Lookout

Travel north off the Trans-Canada
On Highway seventy-two,
And cross the Frog Rapid Narrows
Of the English River system
To enter Sioux Lookout,
On Pe...

Categories: ojibway, celebration, culture, joy, summer,
Form: Verse

The Lakes

...The Iroquois, the Ottawa, the Potawatomi, the Crow,
The Lakota, the Chippewa; all dwelt by their shores
And in their deep forests, but are there no more. 

Yet the Lakes remain; their waters abid...

Categories: ojibway, nature, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Westward Ho'

...In the 1600's, Europeans lived on the eastern shore
Their numbers grew, they wanted more.
Iroquios, Sauk, Ottawa, and Mohawk were tribes they met
Too many and more, paid our forefathers' debt.
Me...

Categories: ojibway, adventure, cowboy-western, history, native
Form: Rhyme

A Night With a Shaman

...On a northern night,
In an ojibway village.

The Shaman,
Shared his ceremonies,
With me.

He let me in,
On sacred secrets.

Not because,
I am native.
But,
Because,
I was worthy....

Categories: ojibway, adventure, life, native american,
Form: Free verse