Famous Choctaw Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Choctaw poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous choctaw poems. These examples illustrate what a famous choctaw poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Walcott, Derek
...n snow.
Growing in whispers from the Writers' Congress,
the snow circles like cossacks round the corpse
of a tired Choctaw till it is a blizzard
of treaties and white papers as we lose
sight of the single human through the cause.
So every spring these branches load their shelves,
like libraries with newly published leaves,
till waste recycles them—paper to snow—
but, at zero of suffering, one mind
lasts like this oak with a few brazen leaves.
As the train passe...Read more of this...
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