Best Calhoun Poems

Summertime is growing weary.
Welcome to the autumn rain,
A new season taking over
Hydrating the earth again.

Arid land with celebration,
Greedily absorbs each drip,
With the dry and dusty flora,
Raising eager mouths to sip.

Running rivulets of water,
Turning grasses back to green.
It is showering time for nature
Every plant a new...

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Without a wish in my heart
I stare at glen's pinnacle.
The end of the yellow brick road shakes my weary hand.

Without a knot in my throat
I gaze past a forgotten dell's innocence.
The beginning of a backward's journey has just begun.

The fairy tale was a lie.
The epic...

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...early Spring walk around 3.2mi. Lake Calhoun...so named after controversial industrialist sotten with checkered past...movement underway to return name to Native American Dakota "Bde Maka Ska" White Earth Lake.


 Purple Finches trill their soothing song
to people walking around Lake Bde Maka Ska,
a deep glacial lake...

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Pay attention! 
Important chicken poetry coming up, 
though no binary fantasies shall deconstruct 
into raucous biddy enjambment. 


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Grandfatber always kicked Grandmother's chickens away 
while he sat whittling under the Oak, 
Those ruddy, Cherokee cheeks sweating even in the shade 
as sweltering Carolina summers...

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Historically accurate, narrative poem

25 June, 1876 - Valley of the Little Bighorn

Nothing stirs this June night, not a summer’s breeze or a breath of life.  All is eerily quiet, and on yonder hillside, shroud of darkness and death descended, lay ten score men and...

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I know where my heart is.
Why do I feel so torn apart?

Maybe I should get back to the start.
At a young age this girl had me sparked.
Me, having girlfriend after girlfriend.
Her, having boyfriend after boyfriend.

Our connection never dripped a drop.
Well...
Maybe once or twice,
before the ball...

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A coyote pack was howling as the sun crowned
Zack Waverly was weary, he'd travelled around
Zack takes up the narrative, better I found.

High noon, I rode the bay into Rotgut town
With fixed intention, I weren't playing around.
A spurt of tobaccy I spat on the ground.
To finding...

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Honey, Let’s go on Calhoun Road
Its Saturday… Let’s Unload
Drive up to the Cul-De-Sac…
Stop the Truck… and Let’s Jump on Back
With the Radio on – Up- High…
The Bluebirds, will Wave – Bye-Bye
Yeah, Let’s Go Truck… on a Back-Roads-Ride Roundup !

Honk – Uncle Henry… Out His House...

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The winter winds moan among those forlorn monuments to death,
Marking the spots where brave men fell gasping their last breath.
Upon bleak Calhoun Hill where Seventh Cavalrymen gave their all,
Now lie 225 souls in hallowed graves awaiting Gabriel's call!

The battlefield that once echoed with the screams...

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This is dedicated to all of the students who were offended at Orangeburg-
    Calhoun Technical College.

For the nightmare to be brought back is haunting
The thought of it being planned is sickening
We never thought we'd see it again
Especially not in this school and...

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What is happening to our world today
another species dies and another takes it's place
but what about the human race

What will happen when all the wars end
will we survive will we be able to mend

I think of these things every night
I know some people
still fighting for...

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I think of you every so often your friendship
and memories remain unbroken
I miss you my friend as I wait for the time
we are together I just can't wait
The moonbeams shinning
as I wait for your command
Comanche is coming
I see his beautiful tan.

I see beside him my...

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We are all sinners none of us saints
But those who came before us
Were a powerful race

They made it their mission
To keep what was theirs
They did it with dignity
And some with despair

They showed us a way of life that they knew
Would help us survive in a...

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Look Into my Eyes,
Tell me what you see,
Do you see the joy?
Of a mate giving birth to her pups?

Do you see to fear
As I watched a brother being killed?

Do you see the tears that I cry?

The tears I cry,
When I try and hear,
The voices I...

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