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Best Cheyenne Poems

Below are the all-time best Cheyenne poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cheyenne poems written by PoetrySoup members


A Cheyenne Night
Screaming Elk scattered
The stars in the sky.

Little Bear taught the
Weeping willow how to
Cry.

Two Moons showed
The clouds how to
Cover up a clear Blue sky.

Ten Bears ...

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Categories: cheyenne, animal, inspirational, native american,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Old Black and White
What I’d give to wake in the morning and hear those church bells ring
To turn on my old black and white and hear Gene Autry...

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Categories: cheyenne, nostalgiaold, friend, old,
Form: Rhyme
Westward Ho'
In the 1600's, Europeans lived on the eastern shore
Their numbers grew, they wanted more.
Iroquios, Sauk, Ottawa, and Mohawk were tribes they met
Too many and more,...

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Categories: cheyenne, adventure, cowboy-western, history, native
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lakota
I'm very small
I am called Standing Tall
My story to be read as i live through it all.

Our Dakota lands are forest and vast
Where our ancestors...

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Categories: cheyenne, cowboy-western, death, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Custer At the Washita
Historically accurate, narrative poem

27 November 1868, on the banks of the Washita River  

Dawn’s peaceful first light streaks the eastern skies, 
belying the horror...

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Categories: cheyenne, native american, war, ,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Mercy, Turned
Cold and sodden
The rain fell heavy in the night
As if his sins were known to the sky gods
And, in mercy, sought to wash them off...

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Categories: cheyenne, analogy, forgiveness, humanity, native
Form: Free verse
Drifting
I tied a balloon to my heart,
  and watched it float away
up up up
( 1416 days since your suicide )
  heading off towards...

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Categories: cheyenne, soulmate, suicide,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Indigenous - the True American
Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate

Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the...

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Categories: cheyenne, joy,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Abc
Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate

Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the...

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Categories: cheyenne, native american,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Butti the Tortoise
Butti the tortoise from the zoo has flown the coop

   Your brother Tutti misses you, you little poop

     ...

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Categories: cheyenne, animals, funny
Form: Limerick
The Westerns of Tv Land
I was watching the TV the other day
When a certain Rerun began to play.
It brought me back to one of my brain's stifled bans
Because it...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cheyenne, hero, memory, remember, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
United Sisterhood
"A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is finished no matter how brave its warriors...

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Categories: cheyenne, native american, planet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cowboys Where Are You
There was a day on TV
Where westerns were all the rage
You could take your pick
From your TV paper page

Together our masked hero the Lone Ranger
With...

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Categories: cheyenne, america, native american, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Little Miss Sure-Shot
Pretty funny name for a girl—her name traveled ‘round the world,
“little Miss Sure=Shot” they called her everywhere.
She sure shootin’ earned her fame—“Annie Oakley” was her...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cheyenne, history
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Sue's Sets of Sheets
Cheyenne sold Sue six sets of sheets
and cute matching curtains with pleats.
When Sue sealed the deal,
she said, “Such a steal,
especially those sh_ _ted feets!”


October 19,...

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Categories: cheyenne, cute, humor,
Form: Limerick

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