Category Archives: Indigenous People

Ularu

Ularu’s arkosic sandstone A great palette of soul Where the ancient people Knew of their role To love and respect To have empathy for The environment The animals spirits galore They painted their pigments up onto the rock They drank … Continue reading

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Kangaroo killers

Dripping with blood In the vilest of flood Mothers and babies The outback was where The purest of soul Who took the angels role Was ambushed and murdered Can you feel the despair ? Of a mother who is dying … Continue reading

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Respect

The reasoning power of our psyche The rationality The indigenous peoples consciousness Is extra sensory Perceptual and reasonable Lateral thinking too A kind of rumination The proper thing to do Having an understanding With an animal thus you May expect … Continue reading

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Atlantic Salmon and why farming them is nuts

The naivete of thinking that your knowledge Is beyond The Natural world of Gaia Establishing this bond With obsession and with tenets That you believe is true Is in essence just credulity Its what corporates do Its bewilderingly obvious How … Continue reading

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Wallerberdina

In the fifties Britain tested The bloody atomic bomb Which pissed off the aboriginies And caused a maelstrom Of rabid negativity And now believe it or not The Scottish want to ship their Waste and really there’s a lot From … Continue reading

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The Netsilik Eskimo’s

Netsilik Eskimo’s The people of the Seal Go jigging for lake trout A pastime for real Its May 15 fahrenheit Hear the crunch of the sled The cry of the dogs The snow forms their bed Kick out some snow … Continue reading

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Cobra gypsies of Rajastan

Where the skies are pink And purple Where the bush is sparse and dry There live a handsome people Close to nature We may sigh To see them under tractors With their hound And children too With their pretty clothes … Continue reading

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The Sami singer

The glorious pitch of heaven Brings A yoik into ones soul Watch the slender dancer With each gentle role The flight pattern of the eagle The crispness of the snow Weaving like this morning breeze Her soft skin all aglow … Continue reading

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The Sami

Sami music pulled out of the landscape Shot with snow With sky with sea with reindeers And with sunlight that does grow Where colours of the rainbow paint Masterpieces high Melodically embracing life And all that does go by Our … Continue reading

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The Aquaria Trade and the indigenous people of Barcelos

The humic acid content Of the various leaves that fall Into the RIO NEGRO Make the colouration rule Of, strong dark tea colour A blackwater river thus And within this unique river At least 600 plus Fish aome big aome … Continue reading

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Whose nuts them or us best ask GAIA

The West takes unbelievable liberties With those indigenous peoples around the world With commodities Who knows the extent the vile intention Of profit and how its made Taking advantage of people Whose abilities are laid Out their worth is little … Continue reading

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What are we doing?

Cities where ants scurry this way And that Where vehicular poisons are where We are at Where once the sound sod and the life force We saw Was concreted over and yes some more Did we live in a cave … Continue reading

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Intelligible to them

They had developed clarity For living on the land Gave them the exposure Which helped them understand They had that visible evidence The horizon they could see It all was recognizable Eye-catching strikingly And they possessed true intellect Reasoning power … Continue reading

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Democratic republic of the CONGO

Poverty and impoverishment Creates in man a need To suffer with his family They are owned and robbed indeed Underfed and down at heel Unable to pay ones way So drawn into great dangers Just hopeful they can pay In … Continue reading

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STanding Rock

State Troopers Robocops and more Its not IRAQ NO its not war! Its Standing Rock The DAPL crowd And the water protectors Are overpowered By the military vehicles The burnjng tipi’s Really tough cops Not there to please Thirty or … Continue reading

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DAPL

We can bang on our drums We can pray to the sky We can talk up our treaties As the embers fly We can stand at the gate of our land And proclaim That we dont want the black snake … Continue reading

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The river doesn’t want the black snake under it

Since Trump came in And signed up on Dakota Pipe line,he Saw their stock rise by 7 a 1/2 per cent And did agree There was a time he held a lot Up to a million but He divested himself … Continue reading

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Executive Orders

The executive order Was signed yesterday No communication Just this is the day I am the leader What I say goes And ETP reckon Now that it shows THat I mean business The pipe line must be Fully operational Fracked … Continue reading

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Dakota Pipeline just north of Hell

Trump its there And signs Away Treaty land Yes they can pay BISMARCK took objection to The routing lines So what they did do Was took it closer To the reservation The sioux wont mind Its near their station The … Continue reading

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The black snake cometh and we goeth

Razor wire And robocops Thats the life thats guaranteed The planet reeling From the oil The coal The fracking YES Indeed The thugs The Dapla security Paid with dirty oil money AMerica land of the free Oil pipes leaking Constantly … Continue reading

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#water is life

Deep snow razor wire And robocops Now in our face Energy transfer partners More arrogant than before The bridge needs clearing urgently Our ambulances cant get through The world is watching North DAKOTA And we all see what they do … Continue reading

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Accion Ecologica

TExaco Chevron showed you their colours Years ago you knew the score The jungles the people the benefits Told us The oil the pollution The cancer of war And how its all planted In people of courage The Shuar people … Continue reading

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Old world monkeys or Macaque’s

Terribly expressive faces Sensitive beyond belief Fruitarians for most part Which is a relief Living on these limstone casts Peering out to sea Makes for amazing climbers Out of necessity Below them on the true land The buddhists temples tend … Continue reading

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Who is more detached the tourists or the swiftlets

Since time immemorial by thrusting design The sea bed rose skywards its pleasure to dine Such a momentum of seasonal rain matched by the spirit With so much to gain Lime sent a’sunder in massive tall casts Sheer do you … Continue reading

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Estonia a sauna to die for

Tall sentinels as cover And snow just everywhere In the chill that makes the body glow In the sudotory flow A session of three hours or more A gift and a lift for YULE Smoke produced from Alder logs A … Continue reading

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Water is life or should be

Existence on this planet Is currently under fire The realization of what is being done here Is so dire For me it is undeniable Why corporations feel And they all appear indestructable Whatever they conceal The pipelines now criss crossing … Continue reading

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First people

We are the first people You are the worst people Its a police state NOrth Dakota is where DAPL’s vile pipe line What is the new sign Unpalatability And such despair Physical pain you dispense It gallons Icy cold water … Continue reading

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RIver Bend San Francisco

The nobility of the wild and free With a pedigree and an ancestry In a rustic space where every face Has humility its just wants to be Part of the whole conceived of soul Unpretentiously its role Inoffensive unassuming Unseen … Continue reading

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SPILLS

292 oil spills But only one came to the fore The others were all hidden yes by big oil They are ahead of the law The land and the ses and the river. They are the masters of time The … Continue reading

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Obama

OBama will never forget you Thats what he bloody well said That was his truest commitment But had best hide his fat head We the indigenous know that Forked tongue was him from the start He is the great corporational … Continue reading

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