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Premium Member Chasing Pandora
Prometheus had erred and caused great ire
when stealing in stealth secrets of fire.
But Zeus could not forgive this deed.
The chieftain of gods punished his greed.
The...

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Categories: chieftain, hope,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Shamrock Reflections
Roads rising up from Irish mists in merry jigs
To the flowing tenor song
Sung by the River Boyne born from Tara's Keep
As Patrick's paschal fire
Weaves truth...

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Categories: chieftain, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Destiny's Clutch
The dawn spoke her name like a silken secret
carried carefree by the tradewinds of lust and larceny
imported from the traderoutes of paradise and pandemonium, 
sequined...

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Categories: chieftain, courage, desire, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Native Whisper of the Winds
Legends of  tribes roam across the  plains
Bold spirits guarding their own mighty land
They dance and offer songs to ease lost reign
And nourish life...

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Categories: chieftain, freedom, native american,
Form: Lyric
Many Moons Ago


The ancient prophecy foretold
so very long ago ...
has finally arrived
Coming swiftly on eagle wings
The howling wind carries piercing night cries,
as open iron claws fall
from the...

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Categories: chieftain, culture, history, native american,
Form: Dramatic Verse



We Came From Mars
Tracie ~*~ Indigo Dreamweaver
Contest Name	'New Beginnings

20 thousand and more years, then,
 We came away from Mars,
Gravity ships with field deflection,
Electromagnetic with the stars.

Come we then...

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Categories: chieftain, fantasy
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Fourth Kingdom
“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie, face
Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!”
“Address To A Haggis”, Robert Burns, 1786.
(Keeper o’er the Fourth Kingdom)

Robert, Robert, Fourth Kingdom
Gate Keeper.
No Telestial...

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Categories: chieftain, imagery, inspirational, literature, passion,
Form: Romanticism
The Alphabet War
Alphabet war.........

A is for aggressor, they're the ones who start wars, 
B is for breath, when a bullet takes yours. 
C is for Chieftain, a...

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Categories: chieftain, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wind Whisper
I’m the whispering voice of legacies long sense past, the overseer
Of generations traveling with broken wings of tribal tradition,
A vanquished chieftain, whom sheds his sacred...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chieftain, america, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Guardians of Chacoan Canyon
Hear the whispering voices of our tribal ancestors,
Echoing against the rough rock skin of Chacoan Canyon,
Telling the outsider white devils, that this is sacred ground,
Do...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chieftain, adventure, america, halloween, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Merlin the Wiz Kid
410 AD when mythology takes hold
Barbarians threaten to conquer Rome
Roman troops abandon Britain, head home
But Chieftain Vortigern seizes the throne

Britain’s new king sought to flex...

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Categories: chieftain, fantasy, history
Form: Rhyme
Clashes of Religion and Culture
From the onset you become
The supernatural puppeteer behind power
The chieftain of the tycoons
The moral and immoral nous
The sheepherder of the multiverse
Why tenuring freudalism and captivity?
Thy...

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Categories: chieftain, abuse,
Form: Narrative
The Escape From the Turkish Slavery
The Escape from the Turkish Slavery
(Ukrainian historic folk song)

There broke into the Tartar sprites,
And they captured my daughter, nice,
Marusyna, my daughter, dear,
I remained with one...

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Categories: chieftain, history, slavery,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member An Ego To Brag About
He razzed Iran’s chieftain emir
Cotton's had his writing premiere 
The paparazzi
Might call him a Nazi
But he's just a smart profiteer


Author's note:  This young senator...

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Categories: chieftain, crazy,
Form: Limerick
Nelson Mandela
Unkosi Rholihlahla Mandela,
born into the Madiba clan in the village of Qunu 	
grow up in Mvezo in Umtata,Transkei
Dalibhunga, the prince of the Tembu tribe
son of...

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Categories: chieftain, best friend, brother, father,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs