Short Tribe Poems

Two Sisters
last of tribe
visit...

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A tribe of black swan
Does an ethnic dance in cool
Water, unmindful…...

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Indians in six
Without any tricks
The tribe will be taking charge
For the Cubs just a mirage...

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I am guilty
I lack the master touch
To love you better
Flower of my tribe
Return to your first love...

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Amazon forest 

They claim to be a strict tribe 

Need ray-ban sunglass...

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Zafar Khan
Wald
Jabbar Khan
Wald
Tayaar Khan
Wald
Hathyar Khan
Wald
Hoshyar Khan
Wald
Jalaal Sultan.....

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A flesh fly was cast out
by his tribe
for he was seen sitting
on the brim of a container
containing nightsoil....

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in middle school people formed cliques
I did not know about them but felt them for a bit
I have my own tribe now, need no cliques...

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We must strive work
Side by side together
As one people, tribe
In harmony n peace
Indivisible under god
& the red, white, blue...

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The hot-pink flamengos
Wine and dine,
At Flamengo Beach,
In the presence of
The hungry baboon tribe
Contemplating their
Turn to eat...

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Loneliness
Fills more than
Empty rooms

Loneliness
Seeks more than
Random eyes

Loneliness
Aches for its
Missing tribe.

1/23/23...

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When I get reincarnated
I want to be born into the Tutsi tribe.
Their average height is six feet.
And please God, could I be six foot six?...

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Unknown

a wooden statue
carved by unknown hands perhaps
an E.T. worshipped
by an ancient native tribe
who witnessed unknown aliens
...

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A native known as, "Prettycock"
Wed quite young and bred a flock
As children wed
The tipis spread
And now their tribe is known as "Squawk"...

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Man
Creative, Strong
Stretching, Toiling, Striving
Of Adam’s Tribe; Of Eve’s Womb
Establishing, Nurturing, Feeding
Creative, Strong
Woman...

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Cobalt and copper from the Congo jungle
Light verdant ferns that were antifungal
Watusi tribe lost cobalt in a bungle
Thus, we all left the steamy Congo jungle...

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Wolf Heart has a noble soul
his tribe reveres him
Apache, Cherokee and Wyandotte fear him
only three see his tender side
his power animals and his wife Eagle feather...

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Was born in nineteen thirty-five
Holy Gadzooks, and I'm still alive!!!
Some beat their drum
While other succumb
No reason, just a member of the tribe...

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One good man from  North African tribe
Bought for half price a wonderful bride,
Quickly tore off her veil 
Saw the features and fail
To fulfil sacred masculine right....

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She’s an odd duck,
Weird, crazy, unbelievably strange.
A Pollyanna, a Goody-two-shoes,
I ran toward her,
Praying they were right.
I was ready to welcome her to my tribe....

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tiny creature Roger guarded
a white albino squirrel
she had been chased away from the tribe
we took her inside and fed her
she thrived under our tutelage
Rogers’s Squirrel...

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Medicine Woman resposes at the top of the summit
surveying her village, protecting her tribe
a brave’s job, her mother scolded her
Medicine Woman scoffs, keeping a sharp eye out...

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.
The Indian Healer gathered willow
Dried medicinal bark like dried tallow
When fever came to the camp
Small dose when with fever damp
Relieves many of tribe from the deathblow...

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He approaches the globe like an open dome, 
leaving the comforts and confines of home,
seeking to find each tribe, wherever they roam, 
to make the power of Christ's sacrifice known.

9-5-2022...

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No color
No numbers
No heaven
No hell
No God
No wants
No tense
No sense?
Know presence
Know happiness






20 words 10 lines  free verse
Cultural insights from remote Piraha Amazon tribe...

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