Cree poem

The pine trees are enormous
Surrounding the rocky bay
Bats fly by swift in the night
The moon is glorious
A fire burns below on shore
Fresh fish

minahikoskâwa=pine forest
mistahi=enormous

wâsakâm=surrounding
kîskâpiskâw=rocky
wâsâw=bay

apahkwâcîs=bats
pimihâwin=fly
tâstapîwin=swift
tipiskâw=night

tipiskâwi-pîsim=moon
kihci-ayiwan=glorious

kotawân=camp fire
cahkâskitêw=burns
nîhc-âyihk=below
tahkohc=on
nâtakâm=shore

oskisiw=fresh
kinosêw=fish

Nicholas K F Matte

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8 responses to “Cree poem”

justrojie

December 28, 2024

Very picturesque!

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1. Nicholas K F Matte
  
  December 28, 2024
  
  Ah yes, here I pictured a bay I hang at on the Kichizibi River, but I darkened it up, right? Darker, deeper black water, the night, ehm huge pine, cliffs some. The bay I know is a sandy beach. Lots of mosquitoes! Ouch!
  
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  1. justrojie
    
    December 29, 2024
    
    I can’t stand mosquitoes 😂
    
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  2. Nicholas K F Matte
    
    December 29, 2024
    
    🤣
    
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ibarynt

December 30, 2024

That’s a good image you’ve portrayed.

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1. Nicholas K F Matte
  
  December 30, 2024
  
  Thanks, ya, I really like that atmosphere, it’s like the deep water of the Bosphorus Straight, or here, there is a stretch called Sreamboat Alley east some of the sandy bay I commented on above where the river runs narrow, deep, and fast down from a dam, the water is dark dark dark lol. Ya, it’s quite a river!
  
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  1. ibarynt
    
    December 30, 2024
    
    When you say dark water, I recall a movie by that name if I’m not mistaken. An old one. Couldn’t watch it because the beginning itself was eerie.
    
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  2. Nicholas K F Matte
    
    December 30, 2024
    
    Oh, no no!!!!!! Me it’s just memories of being really little and with my family in a long wooden boat on fast pitch water and thinking, “Yikes!” LOL!😄 “Yikes!!!!!” Lol
    
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