Melanie C. Campos ~ MahTame

SAYNDAY

All tales of Saynday begin
with “SAYNDAY WAS
COMING ALONG” into
the adventured quests given

A well-respected character
whom the Kiowa people
speak of as either heroic
or as a very silly trickster

He related many stories
including of their origin,
life’s values and morals
with lots of his curiosities

Cunning or cleverness
prowess or shrewdness
were the abilities he used
for varied survival timings

Saynday stories continue,
given with some variations
through oral traditional ways
of the Kiowa people’s view

©Copyright October 22, 2008 by Melanie C. Campos (MahTame)

Author’s note: Saynday stories are published in the book “Kiowa Voices * Myths, Legends and Folktales Vol. II” by Maurice Boyd. This poem submitted for the October 2008 IWVPA Club Theme Project, “Mythic”