The White Buffalo Woman - A Poem

Smoke with me as I read and discuss a poem of mine about the Sioux mythology from the Lakota tribe of the White Buffalo Woman and everything that is bound up in a tobacco pipe.

Tobacco blend: Kingsfoil from The Country Squire in Jackson, Mississippi, in my Peterson Lestrade pipe.
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The White Buffalo Woman
by Michael Kelley

"The people are starving, no game nearby,
but two hunters set out, the one in faith,
to find food lest all the Lakota die.
They climb a hill, look 'cross a plain, what wraith
clothed un white is this on the horizon?
A holy one, most beautiful woman,
the other lustily grabs her shining
garment, vaporized into charred bones.

"To the man of faith, she gives tobacco,
and a pipe, the bowl carved by men, the stem
by women, working together to grow
into a people of prayer like a gem,
a holy, chosen people to the world
to whom buffalo came, smoke through air curled."

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