The Ballad of Kokopelli

    The Ballad of Kokopelli

    A strange lonely figure stares out of the past
    where engraved by an artist in stone
    Held firm by the sand in which he is cast,
    these last thousand years quite alone.
    Could he be listening, trying to hear
    moccasins scuffing the butte?
    Bringing the people once again near
    to hear Kokopelli's sweet flute?

    His image inscribed on a thousand rock faces
    from east to the great western sea;
    From Sonora's hot sun to the north glaciers bases,
    proclaiming this loved tutelary.
    Though powers possessed and methods employed
    are often in open dispute;
    One thing is agreed, the people did love
    to hear Kokopelli's sweet flute.

    This stick figure man, with a hump on his back
    seemed always to cast a good feeling;
    His magic perhaps, taken out of his pack
    would comfort the sick and do healing.
    Whatever his talents, they surely were grand,
    a fact no one cares to refute,
    As people would come from afar in the land,
    to hear Kokopelli's sweet flute.

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