10 Word Challenge-2 - the Medicine Man
The QUIESCENT, AMBIVALENT brave ate the BITTERSWEET berries,
as he listened to the ARCANE canticles of the chief’s INTERCESSOR’S words-
How absurd the man looked with that buffalo hide
and FLAMBOYANT headdress made from feathers of so many birds-
The QUINTESSENCE of tribal wisdom, claimed that animal IMMOLATIONS
gave him TACTILE powers with the great spirit – they must fight!
When forced from their LUSCIOUS valleys onto barren reservation lands,
The brave realized, too late, that the medicine man had always been right!
written for John Hamilton's 10 word contest -
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