Natives Poems - Poems about Natives

In the past we had to rip them from their mothers screaming, crying ... afraid and remold them in our image antiquated traditions to be discarded minds and values to...Read the rest...

"Pacha MaMa" (written by Michelle L LeBlanc 07/20/2024) Pacha Mama, sweet Mother Earth I find peace within your presence From you, much life has given birth I am thankful to you today For peace within your wings As I sit under your...Read the rest...

Mocking the dead, is that a thing? How many ways can one be disrespecting? Laws that cause offenders to be free? Rape kits that exist only to be not breached. Little lies and big divides of right and wrong...Read the rest...

Natives, Adivasi, however we identify them, They were there before we came, and took over their land from them, We used them, displaced them, put a dagger of pain in their hearts, They only shed tear of...Read the rest...

Natives and relatives all positives Alter natives isn’t an alternative Focusing mind to picture negatives...Read the rest...

I The former Minister said, "You are born out of the world," Not into it! Think of a flower, How is it born? Myriads of marvelous blooms are born into the world And we, humans, want to be sui...Read the rest...

I can hear the drums beating They are beckoning me to come I can hear the drums beating Murmuring what is taking me so long I can hear the drums beating And it is singing a merry little...Read the rest...

Creative Native, quite contemplative- he draws on walls in ancient caves. So Hieroglyphic speculative: Cuneiform curses mark mummy graves. On land the sand, the grains of Man- exoplated, protective shells. A last ballast, we're sinking fast; step lively men, and hoist the...Read the rest...

(7/5 Trochee rhyme form) They’re coming. Listen closely. Hear that distant thrum. . . that steady thrum- thrum- thrumming of a tom-tom drum. There! Beyond the cornfield rows. Tell me, don’t you see the tops of feathers moving forward stealthily? They’re so close...Read the rest...

Jewels covered the earth, And gold paved the streets. Like an Eden amongst Eden’s. And fruits grew everywhere, Even in the sea and the air. Words like baron and land, Never touched skin, or formed words together to touch the lips...Read the rest...

At first they called them savages then took away their land, then they called them primitive and didn't understand. They had their own society before the white man came, who forced them into slavery which filled their hearts with shame. Pushed into reservations and...Read the rest...