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Best Buffalo Poems

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Premium Member Indian Ink
INDIAN INK

Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow

A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...

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Categories: buffalo, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Listen For the Drum
listen to the drum,

talking to the dance

listen to the elders, 

whispering their chants

listen to the hooves, pounding on the plain

listen to the birds, prophesying rain

listen...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: buffalo, appreciation, culture, environment, native
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member African Anthology
walking gracefully  
with a pendulum movement ~
a herd of giraffes   

the mass migration
crocodiles at the river~
food for the taking

gazelles are running ...

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Categories: buffalo, africa, animal, nature, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Portrait of Nature
Each element of who she is, is scattered on the grass, 
with the scent of earth, the drop of rain, 
where dew reflects a sky...

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Categories: buffalo, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Peephole That Is the Moon
An infinite door of midnight blue;
glowing peephole that is the moon.
Dare I look before turned to dust?
Yes, dear friend, I surely must.

In the midst, a...

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Categories: buffalo, faith, god, heaven, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...

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Categories: buffalo, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Written In the Sand
WRITTEN IN THE SAND

The Big Five—Africa’s pride in the vast open wild
Buffalo, Rhinoceros, Elephant, Leopard and Lion
Their prey—scattered Impala, Kudu and Waterbuck
On hardened dust… their...

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Categories: buffalo, analogy, introspection, proposal,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Premium Member Tenor In The Sky
The black cloud

Sounding like a herd of buffalo rampaging through a valley.  
In its...
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deep... DARK, 

trembling tenor voice...
 
It spoke- 

Thunder!...

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Categories: buffalo, voice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sugar and Spice
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Spicy experiment! 


Victoria secret bra
Love, toy with hidden pleasure 
sweet surrender to my taste 
grenade ecstasy. 

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Spicy taboo!

Sticky forbidden kisses
buffalo breath down my neck 
leak...

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Categories: buffalo, beach, passion, romance,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Song of a Cherokee Princess -
Cherokee chamber,
where a pow wow stampeedes preconceptions of inheritence,
from Her beaded neck charms of chance & chains of change
glisten from opulent offerings of roots, corn...

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Categories: buffalo, native american, dance, for
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Plastic Paradise
Time's ticking for whooping cranes
wild buffalo and prairie dogs.
For their losses outweigh their gains;
displaced by cattle, sheep, and hogs.

The elephant and the blue whale
may share...

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Categories: buffalo, environment, future, how i
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Bush Fire
A BUSH FIRE  
               
One scorching afternoon,
A sudden splintering sound...

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Categories: buffalo, animal, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
In eighteen seventy nine; twenty second of January 
Was the day of a great battle and for the Zulus victory 
At Isandlwana the Zulu army...

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Categories: buffalo, africa, england, river, soldier,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sacred Dwellers
Sacred Dwellers

I am of Native American born
To be caretaker of Mother Earth sworn 

I heal with powers, a medicine man     ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: buffalo, animal, native american, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Women In My Family
Women in my family 
Indeed, are rustic-looking and homely 
Wake up at four, of-course, with reluctance
Untie the cattle though with inner resistance
Wash each cow and...

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Categories: buffalo, family, women,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs