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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ESKIMOS Matches Found: 138 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VERY EXCEPTIONAL ESKIMO, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I tell you a few of the things I know Last Line: If he didn't, the cold might freeze his dreams! Subject(s): Arctic; Eskimos; Native Americans; Snow; Winter; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AKJARTOQ'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I take a deep breath Last Line: Between the first and last hours %of the sun Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunger; Hunting; Native Americans AN ESKIMELODRAMA; [OR THE ESKAPADE OF AN ESKAMAID], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Mid greenland's polar ice and snow Last Line: Is thus kept green in verse by me Subject(s): Eskimos;greenland;ice;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America ANECDOTES, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: She was fifteen, no mother Last Line: The fire %went out. In the morning %the baby was dead Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANIMAL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the very earliest time Last Line: All spoke the same language Subject(s): Animals; Eskimos; Language; Native Americans ANONYMOUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Maybe it doesn't matter but Last Line: Ready to be used for a kayak rib Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans ANONYMOUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who is it is it death Last Line: They'll tear off Subject(s): Death; Eskimos; Native Americans AT POINT HPOE ON THE CHUKCHI SEA, by SANDRA SCHOR Poem Source First Line: Eskimo girls %play hopscotch Last Line: Against premonitions %of a slide Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans AVANE'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Just because I hunt and find nothing Last Line: I saw their muzzles sink deep into the mud Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunting; Native Americans BAD WEATHER HUNTING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Not even the words I put together balanced perfectly on the tip of my tongue Last Line: Hunting song ready %useless Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunting; Native Americans; Weather BALLAD OF THE BIRD-BRIDE (ESKIMO), by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They never come back, though I loved them well Last Line: And the skies are blear and grey Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Birds; Eskimos; Native Americans BIG VILLAGE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Nome's front street, the manhattan Last Line: A face blank and cold %as the moon at minus ten Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Travel; Villages BOARD OF TRADE SALOON, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: 5 p.M., shuffling west Last Line: An icy view that portends %the nome night's violence Subject(s): Eskimos; Ice; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter BOY NORQUAT'S SONG: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You can bring down Last Line: To be as strong as they are Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans BOY NORQUAT'S SONG: 2, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You can get strong Last Line: White teeth like theirs Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans CLASS PARTY, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Fourteen people, eight sites Last Line: I'd written for those who had dropped, %who had earlier dismissed themselves Subject(s): Eskimos; Exchange Students; Music And Musicians; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools DAY AND NIGHT: HOW THEY CAME TO BE, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: In those times %when just saying a word Last Line: Following the daytime of the hare Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion DEAD MAN'S SONG DREAMED BY SOMEONE ALIVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm so happy Last Line: Every time the sun rolls up %over the heavens Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans DEATH IS INTENDED, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't that what eskimos did when they were old Last Line: Even the white new hampshire mountains Subject(s): Death; Eskimos; Ice; Native Americans; Old Age DEATH SONG FOR AIJUK, DREAMED BY PAULINAQ, by PAULINAQ Poem Source First Line: I am filled with joy Last Line: Over the heavens, %ayo, yai, ya Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans DELIGHT IN NATURE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Isn't it delightful Last Line: The island is so beautiful, %when, driving steadily, %you gain on it Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nature DELIGHT IN SONG, by PIUVKAQ Poem Source First Line: It's wonderful %to make up songs Last Line: Standing like a bright fire %on the plain Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Singing And Singers DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I dreamt about you last night Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans EARTH AND THE PEOPLE, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: The earth was here before the people Last Line: But we know our land is not the whole world Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion ESKIMO BABY, by LUCY DIAMOND Poem Source First Line: If you were an eskimo baby Subject(s): Babies; Eskimos; Native Americans ESKIMO OCCASION, by JUDITH GREEN RODRIGUEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am in my eskimo-hunting-song mood Last Line: Mummy is singing at breakfast and dancing! / so big! Subject(s): Women; Eskimos ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Name of a man name of a man Last Line: Man who sleeps with her Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sounding %she cuts it Last Line: I have nothing to do Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They hunt the square flippered seal and the whale Last Line: The young woman because she slept with a man Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give it to me name of the baby Last Line: Wonderful! Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And his kayak Last Line: I used to catch it Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let the man turn to me Last Line: She is pregnant Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans ESKIMO SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm crying I'm able to eat Last Line: Knife knife teeth mouth clothes %a woman's hip muscles Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans EVENING OF LOCAL POETRY SPONSORED BY THE NOME ARTS COUNCIL, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: A spread of reindeer, moose Last Line: We eat and drink as simply Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets EYE OF THE COLD, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: First-time nome visitors see history Last Line: An impenetrable flux of culture and trash- %into winter's dark mirror of gold Subject(s): Cold; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Tourists; Travel; Winter FAR INLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The earth is white far inland Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nature GIANT BEAR, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: There once was a giant bear Last Line: Monster one minute, food the next Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion GOING-AROUND-EVENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A long pole is fixed in the middle of a house Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans GREAT FARTER, by NAKASUK Poem Source First Line: The great farter, they like to say Last Line: To the smell of fart Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans GREAT SEA HAS SET ME IN MOTION, by UVAVNUK Poem Source Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion HEAVEN AND HELL, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: And when we die at last Last Line: But these are the stories that our people tell Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion HOW WE KNOW ABOUT ANIMALS, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: There was once a wise man Last Line: And taught us all we know about them Subject(s): Animals; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion HUNGER, by SAMIK Poem Source First Line: You, stranger, who only see us happy Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans I AM AFRAID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Supernatural I ARISE FROM REST WITH MOVEMENTS SWIFT', by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Now whitening in the sky Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans I JOKES, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: In nome we say I jokes Last Line: In nome we say I jokes %at the end of a joke. I jokes Subject(s): Comedy; Eskimos; Jokes; Laughter; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska I THINK OVER AGAIN MY SMALL ADVENTURES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And the light that fills the world Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America I WATCHED THE WHITE DOGS OF THE DAWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans IGJUGARJUK'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When I ran over the white spring fields Last Line: I crouched down %empty-handed Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunting; Native Americans IMPROVISED SONG OF JOY, by TAKOMAQ Poem Source First Line: The lands around my dwelling Last Line: Make my house grand Subject(s): Eskimos; Friendship; Native Americans INNER NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: This spirit road of ghost Last Line: And rich, the sun in love, %past everything but source Subject(s): Eskimos; Love; Memory; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska INVISIBLE MEN, by NAKASUK Poem Source First Line: There is a tribe of invisible men Last Line: And everyone went back to their ordinary lives Subject(s): Eskimos; Men; Native Americans KANAIHUAQ'S ATTACK ON UTAHANIA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm here but Last Line: Couldn't stand up Subject(s): Erotic Love; Eskimos; Native Americans KAYAK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Over the briny wave I go Subject(s): Eskimos; Kayaks; Native Americans KIVKARJUK'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm only a small woman Last Line: They feel silky like the wolf's chin Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Women LAMENT FOR THE DORSETS, by ALFRED WELLINGTON PURDY Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Animal bones and some mossy tent rings Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Al Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LAMENT FOR THE DORSETS, by ALFRED WELLINGTON PURDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Animal bones and some mossy tent rings Last Line: The ivory thought %is still warm Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Al Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans LAST SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How %can I walk on that thing Last Line: It thinks about me! Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans LITTLE ESKIMO, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Little eskimo, are you Last Line: Like to live in our land, too? Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips MAGIC WORDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the very earliest time Last Line: That's the way it was Subject(s): Eskimos; Language; Men; Native Americans MAGIC WORDS (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the very earliest time Last Line: Nobody could explain this: / that's the way it was Subject(s): Cosmology;creation;eskimos;mythology - Native American;native Americans;religion; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America;theology MAGIC WORDS (2), by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: In the very earliest times Last Line: With the animals %again Subject(s): Eskimos; Homosexuality; Native Americans MAGIC WORDS FOR HUNTING CARIBOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You, you caribou Last Line: Come here Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans MAGIC WORDS FOR HUNTING SEAL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O sea goddess nuliajuk Last Line: O welcome gift %in the shape of a seal! Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans MAGIC WORDS TO CURE A SICK CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O my tiny child Last Line: You'll live a long long time Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Healing; Magic; Native Americans; Parents MAGIC WORDS TO FEEL BETTER, by NAKASUK Poem Source First Line: Sea gull %who flaps his wings Last Line: In the air Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans MAGIC WORDS TO STOP BLEEDING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This blood Last Line: Wipe it off Subject(s): Blood; Eskimos; Magic; Native Americans MAN'S SONG ABOUT HIS DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: That's %your son? The brother Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans MIDNIGHT, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: The time one day bleeds Last Line: That taps a vein, drains %juice, transfuses Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska MORNING SONG OF THE WIZARD AUA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I get up to meet the day Last Line: Toward the dawn whitening Subject(s): Eskimos; Morning; Native Americans MOTHER AND CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A pregnant woman brought forth a child Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans MOTHER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It's quiet in the house so quiet Last Line: It is strange if I cry for joy Subject(s): Eskimos; Mothers; Native Americans MOTHER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is so still in the house Last Line: Is it strange if I start to cry with joy? Subject(s): Christmas; Eskimos; Mothers; Native Americans MOVED, by UVAVNUK Poem Source First Line: The great sea stirs me Last Line: It carries me with it, %so I shake with joy Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nature MY ARMS, THEY WAVE HIGH IN THE AIR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Let me hold my hands under my chin Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans NAME?, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Who know, with a little luck Last Line: By writing you, inhabiting you, %trashing you, releasing you Subject(s): Eskimos; Heaven; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Writing And Writers NOME BYPASS ROAD, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: The freak november of no snow Last Line: Of a limitless universe %and I was cycling, thrilled Subject(s): Eskimos; Frost; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter NOME CALENDAR, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Minus twenty, little wind, my dawdle Last Line: By timelessness, I began to enter %an easier, more human season Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Solitude; Teaching And Teachers; Winter NOME GHOST STORY, by SHEILA BUNKER NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: Eskimos say: the longer dead, %the higher off the ground Last Line: With screams. Pieces wander %still in ice and wind and words Subject(s): Death; Eskimos; Native Americans NOME POST OFFICE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Here where a cold july rain Last Line: At dawn. Fine, I replied, knowing %I had forever. And forever was now Subject(s): Cold; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter OLD MAN CRIES OUT INTO THE DRIVING SNOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cold and mosquitoes Last Line: This is me really me %me Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Snow OLD MAN'S SONG, ABOUT HIS WIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Husband and wife we loved each other then Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans OLD SONG OF THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE FEAR OF LONELINESS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sitting with friends Last Line: As mine again Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Solitude OMATOQ'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I wanted to take Last Line: Except that little one Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans ORPINGALIK'S BREATH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have to sing Last Line: Only my memories are strong Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Singing And Singers ORPINGALIK'S SONG TO HIS SONG-BROTHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You I Last Line: I still see it brother Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Singing And Singers ORPINGALIK'S SONG: IN A TIME A SICKNESS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My biggest worry is this Last Line: And the others got nothing at all! Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans ORPINGALIK'S WIFE SINGS ABOUT THEIR SON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I %find Last Line: I stood wherever I was trembling Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Native Americans OXAITOQ'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "inland, inland, inland, inland" Last Line: They love me only on account of the food I obtain for them Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America POETRY READING, BREVIG MISSION, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Likely lured by a twenty-dollar cash prize Last Line: Little, adorable, three-month-old girl's %savings for college and career Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Poetry Readings; Schools; Teaching And Teachers POOR MAN'S PRAYER TO THE SPIRITS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fatherless ones Last Line: Bring me a gift Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Poverty RESOLUTION, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: The first january day I wake Last Line: I'll bury you in a drift, molly. %your blood will come with me Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Resolutions RUNAWAY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Pretty if you like the mix Last Line: Into a noon darkness %spilled with beer Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bars And Bartenders; Eskimos; Friendship; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska SANIK'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Can't even get a good flame up Last Line: My body felt so light Subject(s): Eskimos; Homecoming; Native Americans SHAMAN AHGUTINGMARIK'S MAGIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What moves what Last Line: Keep your eyes shut Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion SHAMAN AHGUTINGMARIK'S MAGIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Earth everywhere earth Last Line: Say whatever comes Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion SHAMAN SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I remember when Last Line: I was all I could say Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans SID'S JOURNAL CHECK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Read out loud, sid ordered, pointing Last Line: I became one more anonymous white woman %to be hated with the rest of the landscape Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past Last Line: The dog exploded Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans; Dead, The; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past Last Line: Heart straining, to utter that cry? - but %cannot, breath short Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans SMALL PLANES NEAR NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: For fifty years Last Line: Who boards that plane %will never return Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Eskimos; Loss; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska SONG FROM THE TIME OF WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO BREAK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Autumn breaks in blowing Last Line: How the gulls will hack at my dead body Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans SONG OF KUK-OOK, THE BAD BOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This is the song of kuk-ook, the bad boy Last Line: Shall wear skins of the hooded seal only, hayah Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Native Americans SONG OF THE OLD WOMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All these heads these ears these eyes Last Line: And my hair my hair will have disappeared Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Women SONGS ARE THOUGHTS, SUNG OUT WITH THE BREATH..., by ORPINGALIK Poem Source Last Line: We get a new song Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Singing And Singers SONGS FROM THE GREAT FEAST TO THE DEAD (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My children, where are you? Last Line: We have presents for you, %ai-ya-ya-yai Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans SONGS FROM THE GREAT FEAST TO THE DEAD (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, my brother, come back to me Last Line: Will give you a small present, %ai-ya-ya-yai-yai Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans SONGS FROM THE GREAT FEAST TO THE DEAD (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, my brother, %return to us again Last Line: Will give you food Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans SONGS FROM THE GREAT FEAST TO THE DEAD (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We will sing a song Last Line: The dogs will growl at us Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans SPIRIT SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Are my feet big enough Last Line: O the things that hold me up Subject(s): Eskimos; Feet; Native Americans SPIRIT SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I walked on the ice of the sea Last Line: I could hear the voice say %keep going Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Sea SPIRIT SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Spirit in the sky Last Line: So it can't see us Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion SPRING FJORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was out in my kayak Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans SUMMER SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "aya!/ ayaya, it is beautiful, beautiful it is out-doors when the summer comes" Last Line: "ayaya, ayaya, aya!" Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SUN AND MOON, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: A brother and sister had been very wicked Last Line: Because his torch no longer burns Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion SUN UP THERE, UP THERE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: A rich alaskan inventor friend subscribes Last Line: So help me god, the times is the pulp %of some king fool genius fictioneer Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; New York Times (newspaper); Nome, Alaska TAMING THE STORM: A TWO-SHAMAN VISION AND EVENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans THERE IS JOY IN / FEELING THE WARMTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: In the winter night Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans THEY ACCUSE ME OF NOT TALKING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: North people known for silence. Long Last Line: And the relentless futility of the real? Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THINGS IN THE SKY, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: The weather with its storms and snows Last Line: Of the lovely colored light in the sky Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: Once in a time of hunger Last Line: That thunder and lightning could be %very dangerous indeed Subject(s): Cosmology; Creation; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion TRAVEL SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Leaving the white bear behind in his realm of sea-ice Last Line: The life of hunters %migrating with the season Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans TUGLIK'S SONG, by TUGLIK Poem Source First Line: Put on all the bracelets beads rings Last Line: They bring us so much Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans UNALEQ'S SONG OF THE BEGINNING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Everything broke Last Line: Because my baby's coming through it right %now Subject(s): Birth; Eskimos; Native Americans UTAHANIA'S ATTACK ON KANAIHUAQ, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You you %think you know everything Last Line: And gets no food Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans UTITIA'Q'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "aja, I am joyful; this is good!" Last Line: "I am tired to watching and waking, this is good!" Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America UVAVNUK'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The sea the huge sea's making me move like this Last Line: A grassblade shaken and torn with joy Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans VICTIM, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Once admitted, I gave up my wallet Last Line: Clearing sky, spring-like weather, %and mount the brilliant far heights Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers VILLAGE FIDDLE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: I toted my junker, side seam already cracked Last Line: Is it hard to learn? One of my college students: %why are you out here? Where is your family? Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Villages VISITATION, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: I'd been expecting her, the old eskimo Last Line: Outside, footprints in fresh snow, wind, %a gray form whelping three wolves Subject(s): Eskimos; Guests; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska WEARING THE SKIN OF THE GREAT NORTHERN DIVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm stretching out my arms wide Last Line: With my harpoon Subject(s): Eskimos; Hunting; Native Americans WHEN HOUSES WERE ALIVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One night a house suddenly rose up Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans WHEN I WAS YOUNG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: With the glow of the next day's dawn Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans WINTER'S FIVE MILES AWAY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Division street's gravel Last Line: Tomorrow, the eskimo snorts, %will kick like a moose Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Travel; Winter WOMAN WHO TOOK IN A LARVA TO NURSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was once a barren woman Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans WOMAN'S SONG, ABOUT MEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: First I lowered my head Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans WORDS FROM SEVEN MAGIC SONGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Inop ihumanut erinaliot %for a man's mind Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans |
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