Navajo Girl's Blog – April 2009 Archive (3)

1. My name is Sara, they call me Navajo Girl

2.I am Navajo from my fathers side, My mothers side I have Lakota & Cherokee

3.I am 32 years old.

4.I have been married since I was 15 years old.

5.I have two beautiful kids, they are my life and my world.

6.I am a very passionate person, very caring.

7.I try to see the best in everyone.

8.I am divorced, a single parent raising my two kids

9.I am a advocate for child abuse.

10.I am a nurse.

11.I… Continue

"Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread."

-- Pablo NerudaWage Peace



Wage peace with your breath.



Breathe in firemen and rubble,

breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.



Breathe in terrorists

and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.



Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.



Breathe in the fallen and breathe out… Continue

The Night Our Troops Invade

Believing myself a citizen of peace,

I go outside to commune with the stars.

A handful, squeezed between tall dwellings,

blink, inscrutable as the Great Sphinx,

older than any human nation.

I wonder about all those dark years,

the millions of years light traveled

to reach my eyes at this very moment,

all the lives that rose and fell therein,

undocumented, ungrieved.

My reverie is broken by the eerie calls

of… Continue