Short Navaho Poems

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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an east meets west show
the Navaho laid low-
on western art nouveau

* a baize and handspun wool blanket-widely pictured in Stikley's Arts& Crafts mag 'Craftsman' 
c 1900

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/fts/tucson_200601A55.html...

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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 intrigued by you
also grateful to the sky father
for sending you tonight in my hour of need...

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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 enticing dream catcher works well with turquoise
Dividing sorrow, tossing her into the ether
Making room for transitional joy and hope....

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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,
stirred my
heart.

Inspired to capture his moving art,
passion pushed to reproduce his
famed Navaho masterpiece;
every brushstroke chosen
to grasp his canyon,
mother and child
on stone bluff
framed by
rock.
...

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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 Desert -via the Fountaini

 - will make more,  but the Object can't be Programmed.

It's one of the gadflies or juggernauts , 
some say Gordian Knots, 
of Simulation "Theory."

It's REALLY HARD (some say - ahem - difficult) to simulate a Grandpa....

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