![A white buffalo calf is a big deal
and it is said White Buffalo Woman
brought the pipe of peace to the Sioux
Relating that legend Black Elk says...
This they tell,
and whether it happened so or not I do not know;
but if you think about it, you can see that it is true
In years to come they may speak of the spring
when the white bluebonnet
brought goodness back to Texas and the USA](https://i0.wp.com/www.neilmeili.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/White-Bluebonnet-Blessing.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
White Bluebonnet Blessing
![A white buffalo calf is a big deal
and it is said White Buffalo Woman
brought the pipe of peace to the Sioux
Relating that legend Black Elk says...
This they tell,
and whether it happened so or not I do not know;
but if you think about it, you can see that it is true
In years to come they may speak of the spring
when the white bluebonnet
brought goodness back to Texas and the USA](https://i0.wp.com/www.neilmeili.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/White-Bluebonnet-Blessing.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Poem inspired by a conversation with the artist Al Manybears
During the 1914 Christmas Truce the Austrian Hymn Stille Nacht was sung by German speaking troops and joined in by the English speaking troops with the Silent Night words, creating an ascending chorus.
Image by beate bachmann from Pixabay
WAR POEMS
Every poem
is an anti war poem
Although
people of prose
have often bent the light
to lead the young to their deaths