This paper explores the Negev Bedouin`s little-known poetic genre of protest and discontent. This particular branch of popular poetry created by Bedouin poets and versifiers as early as the late 19th century captures some of the main attitudes among the Bedouin with regard to the sedentarization processes and the strugle between the desert dwellers and the State of Israel over the Negev lands. I will analyze two poems of political protest and cultural discontent composed in the Negev during the 1970s and the 1980s. These poems were documented by Sasson Bar-Zvi (1924-2012), whose activities in the Negev since 1944 and his vast collection of Bedouin poems, proverbs, memories and descriptions of customs, will also be briefly presented in this paper.