Navajo Dreamer

A Navajo elder dreams one last dream of retribution upon his deathbed

Argent moons myriad known, beneath an endless zenith sky
When hotter suns unaltered and stars ruled as aperture fever of a night
Around a fire this Naabeeho song begun, sung louder than a heaven's choir
As “Soaring Feather” was tuft mothered, from Navajo out of Chief Eagle Gray's desire

 

But, now less wild panes opaque of Dine', behind leather eyes am I
Brittle bone to withered dust, a desert sage that dries
And I plead one last dream before doors beyond forever
Gazing east, out cross fallen white of Navajo still November

 

I am blinded into vision winds, so quickened unto rapture
Swept along the swaying prairie grass, messenger of earth then after
The billowing, ghosts of buffalo left innocence roaming over head
And I rise in the morning mist, wings tall on Appaloosa's empathic wrath

 

Regrets ascending gallop to step upon plateau in reach of raven's tail plumose
Reborn as Yei to hunt the sky, shed the herds of swifting nimbus
A changeling caught within a current writhe, transcending into tempest, high
Quelling ages and ages of limitations, let the lightning bolts of redress fly

 

A warrior of the Holy Ones, my tabernacle on mother earth drifting dies
But, on painted horse run rising up, a brazen spirit storm comes alive
Free amidst the gale, thunderous beats in temporal instrumental
As clouds begin to blacken, past native spirits dance ceremonial into tornado

 

Hozoji drums beating round and round, whirlwind roar of nightly chants
I, Navajo dreamer stampeding across the azure plains of my once pure native land
Recompense only to scourge prejudice away and humble the most of evil men
And then stillness, a silent healing song as recendence, forgiveness to all is a welcome friend

Reviews

[Md. Ziaul Haque]

It's quite different from some of your other pieces that I read. Different in the sense that you have included the tiny details rather minutely e.g. "I, Navajo dreamer stampeding across the azure plains of my once pure native land". Thanks a lot for sharing it.

[uNmAsKeD-dEluSiOns]

I am really speechless with this one but It really gives me such a melancholy feeling and I feel like I am in a different world which is such a good thing. "Forgiveness to all is a welcome friend" clever way to end it.

[Saddam]

Dreamer like Sheikhchilli.