Turtle Island Poems

The Dead by the Side of The Road: The poem details how manmade structures are polluting and killing off the animals, such as trucks on the interstate, or guns.

I went into the Maverick Bar: The overall theme is remembering what the World used to be. Remembering how people used to dance and when there weren’t as many problems. When he leaves the bar all of that ease disappears and he must answer the questions, “What is to be done?”

Night Herons: Night Herons describes the night life in San Francisco while detailing the smoke stacks and what harmful places around the city. Describing what was manmade and what is polluting the environment we live in. The theme is destruction of what our world once was

The Call of the Wild: This poem describes a man who is a native and has ranched and mined all his life. He then says that his kids will not that the same opportunities to live freely and to experience the environment as he did because of the government and things that have changed the way of life.