{"id":3494,"date":"2017-01-21T20:09:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T20:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2017-01-21T20:10:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T20:10:48","slug":"to-follow-an-eagle-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/to-follow-an-eagle-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"To Follow An Eagle in Flight &#8211; the Flight of Peltier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q3g7limv10s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In flight they free their captors<br \/>\nWho are in hot pursuit<br \/>\nWho seek only vengeance<br \/>\nAnd do not care for the truth<br \/>\nAbove them appeared an eagle<br \/>\nSitting in a tree<br \/>\nSome whose faith were strong declared<br \/>\nA manifestation of Tunkashila &#8211; The Great Mystery <\/p>\n<p>And decreed to follow the bird<br \/>\nThat flew strong and sure and low<br \/>\nAnd brought them to a water main<br \/>\nThat ran underground through which water did flow<br \/>\nAnd all crept to the water main<br \/>\nAnd the bird circles the sky<br \/>\nAnd freedom was at its end<br \/>\nAnd no one wondered how or why<\/p>\n<p>And each man after went his road<br \/>\nLet to freedom by the eagle<br \/>\nWho sat in a tree there<br \/>\nAs if a king regal<br \/>\nJust another bird to the White Man<br \/>\nBut to the Native who has Faith strong<br \/>\nThat was his God, and for his Belief<br \/>\nHe was led the path far from wrong.<\/p>\n<p>His spirit is with the eagle<br \/>\nIt can never be caged<br \/>\nAn eagle who sits waiting on a bough<br \/>\nWhen his soul leaves his body aged.<\/p>\n<p>And that eagle will bring him to heaven<br \/>\nA land where the buffalo roam<br \/>\nWild and free for the hunting<br \/>\nAnd heaven will be like home<br \/>\nTunkashila is there always with him<br \/>\nHis spirit is not broken yet<br \/>\nHe is as strong as Mandela<br \/>\nEven if they cage him till his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In flight they free their captors Who are in hot pursuit Who seek only vengeance And do not care for the truth Above them appeared an eagle Sitting in a tree Some whose faith were strong declared A manifestation of Tunkashila &#8211; The Great Mystery And decreed to follow the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,749],"tags":[3455,2306,2727,1262,746,3454,423],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-native-american-tales","category-whisper-n-thunder","tag-aim","tag-american-indian-movement","tag-barack-obama","tag-leonard-peltier","tag-native-american","tag-obama-pardon","tag-usa","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Um","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1119,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/spirit-of-peltier\/","url_meta":{"origin":3494,"position":0},"title":"Spirit of Peltier","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th August 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R6Gwjoht6f8 Caged like a bird but flexing his wings For a spirit can never be caged Though he walks slower with advancing years His spirit has never aged And his voice reaches the whole wide world Who the rights of man hold dear But his voice, like a thunderclap will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Video Poetry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Video Poetry","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/video-poetry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/R6Gwjoht6f8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1873,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-first-sign\/","url_meta":{"origin":3494,"position":1},"title":"The First Sign (The Hopi Native American Prophecies)","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th June 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EL1nMIqJgH0 The first sign of the changing of the fourth to the fifth world according to Hopi legend is explored in this poem, which is the first of a series of poems exploring the signs both past and to come. 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