Totem Pole Poems - Poems about Totem Pole

...When the coffee's cold the story's old rooster missed his cue again nightmares in both our pens... clouds high on the horizon me, low on the totem pole when the coffe......Read the rest...

...A corner has been turned A chapter has been burned A stipend has been earned — Was it by me? You can’t unearth a friend If he’s stuck in the deep end And he sure as hell cannot pretend He......Read the rest...

...I am Carbon In the cluttered dens of an out lived class Lives Chandra hearts A butterfly playing songs with its wings.. butterfly A effigy to the soul detailed with golden skulls burned into a ......Read the rest...

...Sacred Dwellers I am of Native American born To be caretaker of Mother Earth sworn I heal with powers, a medicine man Tribal’s wise supernatural shaman ......Read the rest...

...Alaska The Rarest Gem Salmon imitates plunging dolphin movement Bald eagles chase ptarmigan above escarpment Under an ice floe a ......Read the rest...

...we soared over clouds didn't dare look below capricious emotions could wither or grow you played your guitar i liked what i heard but to finish your song you needed my word i'm low man......Read the rest...

...To Be A Poet, Oft Strong Commands Come At Night Oh, gawd- comes raging middle of the night This horrid current, rise up and now write An electric jolt, firing through me bones Of new fortress l......Read the rest...

...Remember when you set your goal You can't rise up a totem pole! Avoid the chafe And play it safe Inside your cozy pigeonhole!......Read the rest...

...The native American and the paleface Each claiming ownership over the place For three hundred years they’d been fighting the fight But peace would be parleyed later that night Senators; soldier......Read the rest...

...EXCUSE ME!!!! Do you not see me standing before you? Do you not realize that I, a black woman had a life that mattered too? The black woman appears to be the best kept secret in death being w......Read the rest...

...My last visit home was sad, but true All weekend I waited, just to see you But the expectations I held, were much too high Lowest place on the totem pole, there was I When finally, we met afte......Read the rest...

...A long time ago 'twas, ships set sail For in England and on the Continent Certain folks were doomed sure to fail They were Puritans, the 'wrong religion' Or hewers of wood, down on their ro......Read the rest...

...TRY ME! I am expressly on life's totem pole Come what may, be joyful with heart & soul Trying to keep pace in this life's phase Get my boot laced to run this long race Stride past the days unt......Read the rest...

...We have five basic senses…which we use daily without thinking about them much There’s seeing and hearing and tasting and don’t forget…smelling and touch. Our senses are interconnected…into our li......Read the rest...

...Shanties of pain, children of lesser God hungry and homeless, our naked feet trod Propitious nights, desperate and sleazy in ugly darkness , sleep comes so easy. On silken dust, hard pillows un......Read the rest...