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VxPoem ID: 31913
Category:
healing
Posted: February 4th. 2008 4:13:05 PM
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Yeibechai (Night Chant)
by Empress Penguin
Age Group: Adult
Night Chant was a Navajo ceremonial chant used as a blessing to protect those going into battle. It is now performed as a special ceremony for those who are ill.The ceremony is extremely private;only the immediate family can experience this chant. In honor of the power of Yeibechai I have written this poem, a new arrangement of the Night Chant.
Yeibechai (Night Chant)
She met her shadow in the darkening shade.
She heard her echo weeping through trees.
Death moves in circles through her old bones,
She is a martyr to motion not her own.
He ya we ya we ya o;he ya we ya o;he ya we ya o.
He we ya we ya o.
She walks the white sands where little swellings
appear, filtering the grains upon her hands, a fistful
tracing of a portal held in flesh is not immortal.
He ya we ya we ya o;he ya we ya o;he ya we ya o.
He we ya we ya o.
A cymbal crashes through witching cords. Sound in spirit
inhabits all. Their chant shall be a chant of death,
passed to the dim of tuneless breath.
He ya we ya we ya o;he ya we ya o;he ya we ya o.
He we ya we ya o.
Indulge no more in thymy air the thoroughfares of
the hummingbirds won't find her there. O sweet tomorrow
after today let the pure sage burn and show her the way.
He ya we ya we ya o;he ya we ya o;he ya we ya o.
He we ya we ya o.
She met her shadow in the darkening shade.
She heard her echo weeping through trees.
Death moves in circles through her old bones,
She is a martyr to motion not her own.
He ya we ya we ya o;he ya we ya o;he ya we ya o.
He we ya we ya o.
Author's Location: The Dark Side Of The Moon, New York
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