Tribesmen Poems - Poems about Tribesmen

Melonic Jesturing

...they made shreres with holes through the center
and painted symbols of wheat on them
and made large doll like figures
with wig like hair
that were used to scare
the animals and humans away
from...

Too Near To See

...Mother thought me gone.
She wrote cryptic notes
left them in the mailbox unaddressed.

Occasionally she thought me dead
or travelling in a dangerous land
being held hostage by hostile tribesmen...

The Crying Mother

...An Independence Day Poem written by John Sorie Conteh

I am Mama Salone, the crying mother!
A mother to millions of children.
I am a freedom fighter who fought for the freedom of my siblings and ...

A Little Girl Named Marie

...
                       I
  There is a mud brick house
with roof of palm fronds and thatch -
  behold a little girl named Marie
in possession of my farthest dispatch.
  My picture on its pa...

Massacre At William Henry, Part Iii

......Outside the French guns continued to screech,
a blast rocked them all, and opened a breach,
morale was fading, beginning to sag,
the next day the French sent out a truce flag.

Ned watched fr...

The Genocide At Wounded Knee

...On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians from the Lakota nation
And told them...

Confenssion

...Goodmorning my dearest ones
I have a confession to make today
One day I was thinking about life
The struggles one has to endure before success kicks in
The investment one had to draw and rewrite ...

The Cost of Zambia's Pettifoggery

...We are quarreling over a graveyard of great ideas
Wandering under skies filled with flying political spears
Ideas are rotting under the soils dug by the unscrupulous
We buried our true identity an...

Journey

...Journey


Dirt, grass and wildlife govern 
The Savanna
Elephant, lion, hyena
Roam the  land 
We pride on our livestock 
Of goat and cow
There’re all we’ve got to survive 

Our journey on f...

Ancient Hunt

...Moccasins crunching on crusted snow,
wolf-fur hood warming what I breathe,
jogging with lance and tomahawk,
other friends spread out, left and right.

The wapiti run before us,
big elk, eight o...

Conditioning

...Some men are breast men,
some men are leg men.
Some men are butt men,
and some men focus on that area most feminine.
This behaviour that men display towards women,
is all due to a lifetime of co...

Lock Up the Wolves Two

...I listen to my words but they fall far below
I'll never make the same mistake
carnality lifting through the extreme
blinded decorum of harmful interludes
there isa cave with evil twisted ways
ca...

Poetic Licence

...Poetic Licence

I've been granted my Poetic Licence,
Which allows me to write as I find.
Exaggeration here, embellishment there,
A free spirited open mind.

With vivid inspired imagination,
I...

Mystical Lore of the Thunderbeast

...Great Spirit whispers on breathing breeze; 'It is time',
puce plume in saffron noon signals hunt's aborning,
ThunderBeasts' harrowing hooves erupt Great Plains grime,
soon will ail, widow's wail l...

Grip This My Fellow Tribesmen

...Easily entertained by the oppressors yet offended by the truth that seeks to wake us.

Invade our stable to take us, give you a smile or two you accept the fate that they give or better yet gave us...

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