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Mistletoe Angel
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0 posted 2001-07-13 09:59 PM


Chinook Gypsies
By: Noah Eaton
7/6/01

Rustling against the Pacific coast
These Chinook gypsies glissade back and forth
Red hair reflecting the salmon sunset
Chasing the wind wherever it may implore

Velveteen echoes blanket the bay
Matrimony showers heard from hundreds of miles around
To where Mother Nature kisses the deep blue ocean
Uniting the boldest of sisterhoods, as these Gypsies sail about

Daughters of Toolux, the South Wind, the summoner of the Chinook
Creating the great Hahness from a whale, whose eggshells became these people
These Chinook gypsies route out the same course as their ancestors
Through the Wapato Lowlands and down to where the ebb flows

Waving vapor ribbons in rhythmic motion
Rocking Nature’s mother to dream in Her ocean
Chinook whispers breaching the turquoise moon
Diamonds of the deep comb the seashore in high-tide notion

Disciples of diplomacy, seen to “She Who Watches”
Where this dancing coyote ruminates on her red rock
Playing her myrtlewood flute above the riverbed
Daughters-in-vision dancing among the buoyant flocks

Yes, I can hear the lost words of the Chinook echo through my ears
Traversing their grounds of triumphs and tears
Yet the Chinook still live on, long as the wind will ever blow
Reciting their spirits for many coming years

© Copyright 2001 Nadia Lockheart - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2001-07-13 10:11 PM


Noah~
You write so beautifully of these Native people~
Very, very nicely done, poet.
Thank you for sharing this.
~*Marge*~

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2 posted 2001-07-14 04:39 PM


Noah, I needed to read something like this today, and not only was it well written and enjoyable, it was accurate!  Good for you, this was absolutely excellent!  

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3 posted 2001-07-14 06:36 PM



Noah-
   what a wonderful write about these people...
   beautifully done..  
   enjoyed reading this..

   hugs,
   ~vicky



"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes


[This message has been edited by vlraynes (edited 07-14-2001).]

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4 posted 2001-07-21 06:39 AM


This is such a nice tribute

Yes, I can hear the lost words of the Chinook echo through my ears
Traversing their grounds of triumphs and tears
Yet the Chinook still live on, long as the wind will ever blow
Reciting their spirits for many coming years


Thank you very much for writing this beautiful poem, I really enjoyed reading it.

Titia


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