Tribal/Earth-based

Three Lakota Songs

by admin | May 1, 2020 | Poems by Men, Tribal/Earth-based

May the sun rise in splendorMay the earth appear in lightAÂ Â Â Â Â windwearsmeLookIt issacredA rainbow hoopwearsmeEverybodysees mecoming

Navajo Prayer – May it be beautiful

by admin | May 1, 2020 | Poems by Men, Tribal/Earth-based

Dark young pine, at the center of the earth originating,I have made your sacrifice.Whiteshell, turquoise, abalone beautiful,Jet beautiful, fool’s gold beautiful, blue pollen beautiful,Red pollen, pollen beautiful, your sacrifice I have made.This day your child I...

Ojibway Song

by admin | May 1, 2020 | Poems by Men, Tribal/Earth-based

SometimesÂ Â Â Â Â I go about pitying myself.Yet all the whileÂ Â Â Â Â I am carried by windsÂ Â Â Â Â across the sky.

Toward calm and shady places

by admin | May 1, 2020 | Poems by Men, Tribal/Earth-based

Toward calm and shady placesÂ Â Â Â Â I am walkingÂ Â Â Â Â on the earth.

Odin’s Shaman Song (from Eldar Edda)

by admin | May 1, 2020 | Poems by Men, Tribal/Earth-based

I know I hung on the gust-beat gallowsÂ Â Â Â Â nine full nights,gashed with a stake and given to fire-see,Â Â Â Â Â myself to myself,on that ash-tree of which none knowÂ Â Â Â Â from where the roots rise.They did not comfort me with breadÂ Â Â Â Â nor with a drinking...