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Sometimes

by Ojibway (Anonymous)
(19th Century) Timeline

English version by
Robert Bly and Frances Densmore
Primal/Tribal/Shamanic : American Indian
19th Century

Sometimes I go about pitying myself,
and all the time
I am being carried on great winds across the sky.

 

 

-- from Art & Wonder: An Illustrated Anthology of Visionary Poetry, Edited by Kate Farrell

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/ Photo by tanakawho /

Themes

  Sky
 
 
 
 


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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

What is there to say, but to spread our arms and feel the great winds rise up...?

 

 


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