Red Beauty
Rolling thunder passes
Great land of the white one
Pass the magic corn of the earth
To the west of red beauty
Beneath glorious sky
To moon’s daughter
Bleeding hawk intertwines
Among the riching forest
Deep birch, sweet cedar and sturdy oak
Buffalo are roaming to the mighty rivers now
For your beauty I take
And eat your poison and swallow my fire of pride
Share my sacred pipe with your painted face
In these brave summers of thicketed visions
And tongues of stirring ashes
I’ve lost my eagle soaring guide
With pressed hands and clenched fists
My wounded heart pounds as the mountain speaks
With leaves of golden amber
And wild pure water flowing
Chanting of your beauty in passages
Come dance with me in the falling rain
Rain with me
Down promising trails of flames
Singing swallows can be heard
Behind my brothers and sisters
As dawn comes over great brown bear
Your beauty like nothing of this earth
Beating the dirt back to its core
Following the blooming flowers to your footprints
The beauty you shine with
Makes the growing sun and stars fight to reflect upon you
As I imagine my blue eyes upon your breast
The desert becomes hotter as you raise
The holy flames on the land
And take the rainy season to flood lands
Powerful sun beams beat off your beauty
Into the mighty night sky
Showing the overhead night birds a wonder sight
Your beauty shakes the tremendous strong earth
Quite beyond your structure of lust
I sink in the sand to be with you
As your beauty burns and dances like fire
In the minds of myself and my fathers before me
I honor you and give you earth gifts
Silent cuts on palms remind me
The delicate lines of your beauty eyes
Making the smokey signals of my desire
Your beauty quietly escapes the red land
Mounts on top of great blue blankets
And becomes one without me in the darkness
© 1999 David Greg Harth
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