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"An Indian Prayer" is my masterwork poem first published in 1980 and has subsequently appeared in various publications and anthologies all over the world.
This is a dramatic reading of it by me which also includes Native American flute and drum tracks which I composed and played.
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Here are the words to "An Indian Prayer":
{ An Indian Prayer – H. Kent Craig – © 1980 }
My grandfather is the fire //
My grandmother is the wind //
The Earth is my mother //
The Great Spirit is my father //
The World stopped at my birth //
and laid itself at my feet //
And I shall swallow the Earth whole //
when I die //
and the Earth and I will be one //
Hail The Great Spirit, my father //
without him no one could exist //
because there would be no will to live //
Hail The Earth, my mother //
without which no food could be grown //
and so cause the will to live to starve //
Hail the wind, my grandmother //
for she brings loving, life-giving rain //
nourishing us as she nourishes our crops //
Hail the fire, my grandfather //
for the light, the warmth, the comfort he brings //
without which we would be animals, not men //
Hail my parents and grandparents //
without which not I //
nor you //
nor anyone else //
could have existed //
Life gives life //
which gives unto itself //
a promise of new life //
Hail The Great Spirit, The Earth, the wind, the fire //
praise my parents loudly //
for they are your parents, too //
Oh, Great Spirit, giver of my life //
please accept this humble offering of prayer //
this offering of praise //
this honest reverence of my love for you \\
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