Best Indigenous Poems
Guardian of the Environment - Indigenous PeoplesFor several thousands of years
you upheld the sacredness of Nature
avoiding wanton destruction
of plant and animal life
taking only what you needed
since their sacredness was
just as important to you
as the sacredness of humanity
When harvesting wild rice for food
you let some fall into the water
to produce...
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Categories:
indigenous, abuse, animal, environment, food,
Form:
Free verse
Let Me Become You, IndigenousLet me hug you, human, and be one being,
Let the stars shine and go for sightseeing,
Let us share smiles under the moon,
Let our children play together at noon,
Let us be storytellers of justice and truth,
Let our people join our energetic youth,
Let us stroll in mountains...
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Categories:
indigenous, change, community, culture, discrimination,
Form:
Rhyme
Indigenous Feel of Peaceful LoveIndigenous feel of peaceful love Interferencing touch of skin
There has been no where better I have been
So empowered , clean , free
Often like Im at ease , drinking a tea ,
With stream ,
Although a dream It...
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Categories:
indigenous, art, feelings, for him,
Form:
Free verse
Indigenous GhostNo amount of political education
could quell his mingling organ they call ‘simple brain,’
while mutations from grammar association
to unravel civilization's complex pain.
His shield prepared against another man’s logic
a mind opened only to serve his needy soul,
he knows the whole wide world lost in pedagogic
actors all on...
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Categories:
indigenous, angst, culture,
Form:
Sonnet
Indigenous Creatures of My Writing DeskThere is an antique writing desk
in my little study
handed-me-down
from generations of would-be
writers in my family
And there are ancient creatures
from days gone by
living in this old desk still
evil, larcenous little creatures
envious of literary skill
This explains much
Lately, I have caught them unawares
aghast, thought I imagined them
but they...
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Categories:
indigenous, anxiety, feelings, humor, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
The Indigenous - the True American
Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate
Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the Cree
Dakota Sioux, the Dakota, meaning little snakes in Ojibwe
Euchee, or Yuchi, are the "children of the sun"
Fox, the Meskwaki, eventually...
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Categories:
indigenous, joy,
Form:
Abecedarian
Indigenous I Am, From the Stolen Generations
This is a journey, a trip call it what you will
It follows the footsteps of my ancestors, and allows my thoughts too spill
Firstly let me take you back, to tell you so little of my past
Indigenous I am, from the "Stolen Generations" I did not...
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Categories:
indigenous, angst, childhood, depression, family,
Form:
Couplet
Said the Indigenous People of Their Land -Evil ProvocationSaid the indigenous people of their land,
"Our Lord,
Since time started we lived here,
before prophets and their offsprings.
We built sanctuaries and prayer houses.
Our Lord,
today like never before,
we are under siege
as suffering invades our homes,
steal our sons,
silently rape our daughters,
and imprisons our men.
Our Lord,
when will you...
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Categories:
indigenous, abuse, evil, irony, passion,
Form:
Didactic
The Indigenous People of BiafraThe indigenous people of biafra
Every poeple has a right of an identification
Every poeple has a right to live
among themselves by themselves
If they so wish to isolates from an old identity
Hi friends have you ever had of biafra
A new nation is...
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Categories:
indigenous, abuse, africa, break up,
Form:
Epic
Indigenous Silver SpoonI want to live in my mother's cheekbones that kiss the moon,
then climb down her braids and fall asleep in my indigenous silver spoon....
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Categories:
indigenous, childhood, culture, daughter, mother,
Form:
Couplet
ReConnecting Indigenous SpiritsAbout this "reconnecting with Earth"
environmental business
MotherTree rings recall
how healthy life felt and smelled and tasted
and sounded and dynamically reverberated
as an infant seed
still in EarthMom's warm organic womb
Reproducing sacred paradise,
perfect organic nutritional commodities
values and shunning disvalues
required by regenetic neuro-acid
root-systemic instructions
for health and safety of Me
among WeTree...
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Categories:
indigenous, birth, destiny, earth, environment,
Form:
Political Verse
Indigenous ForestIndigenous forest so awash with trees.
Leaves strum a tune in the cool Autumn breeze.
Rustling rowans and galloping ash.
A rustic blanket for a well trodden path.
Plum tinged foliage,fleet of foot in the dance.
Melancholy movements has me in a trance.
Woodland dance floor with pine-needle skin.
Acorns descend hit...
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Categories:
indigenous, natureautumn,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
indigenous, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
On Naming Plants and AnimalsA Commentary on
"A Note on the [Patriarchal-Colonizing] Treatment
of Plant Names"
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, p. 385
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS:
INDIGENOUS WISDOM,
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE,
AND THE [SACRED] TEACHINGS
OF PLANTS
I too often accept
with nary a LeftBrain dominant thought
that our verbalized labels
for individual EgoPersons
are RoyallyCAPITALIZED.
To write
"Marvin Appletree"
would be to strip my tree
of His/Her sacred...
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Categories:
indigenous, earth day, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
Auntagony's InfatuationAntagonism's stand up protagonist,
Her dark comedy
impatient inside AuntAgony declares
left out right in face of
a bi-culturally sublime
ProWithiGistic voice within,
if S/He only vulnerably dared
to risk her starkly impatient tissue issues:
I did not choose
to lose
deep dark masculinity
To no longer
and wider grow
against you
just as you could not...
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Categories:
indigenous, earth, health, humor, love,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum