Best Choctaw Poems

...Oh Great Dream Weaver
may the strands of hair 
be placed just so

While the fog settles down 
out in the fields hovering
ever so low

With wise hands just where 
to wind the leather
to know......

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...I am dipped in burnt sage
smudged with black skin
Choctaw infused in my DNA
Creole seasoning the roux 
in my bloodline
I slow simmer
for I am daughter of
strong warrior
Too powerful to
give ......

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...Quietly, feathered soles steal across fields
soft as Choctaw spirits' slipping shadows;
frescoed frost glazes summer remnants of pumpkin and persimmon.
The blackberry moon bends low,
pursed lips ......

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Written: September 08, 2024 For Edward Ibeh Contest

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He has blue eyes and lovely blond hair,
Curls rose above his pink and pretty ware......

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...“They took the whole Cherokee nation
Put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife”
        From “Indian Reservation” by Paul Revere and the Raiders

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...The once was a Native American Navajo
Who served his country and to war did go.
He wrote codes by the score
Which helped end the war
But came home to no fame, “Oh, no.”

The World War II ends i......

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...The Choctaw Indians
From the southern states
This Muskogean group
Like others, their future waits
 
The American Revolution
Supporting the thirteen states
But history would tell them
As they ......

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...Halito

Follow the rythms of nature
Rise and retire with the sun
Enjoy life's journey
But leave no tracks

Copyright © by Scarlett Anderson......

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...Twas nothing around me, no
place or time
Feelings of nothing that
felt so sublime
As I shaved off my hair so
long and fine
Grief over the family I had
at one time
Taken by a White Man's Natio......

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...The word "Cherokee" is believed to be derived from a Choctaw word meaning "Cave People". Another explanation says it came from a Creek word "Chelokee", meaning "People Of A Different Speech".
It was......

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...Once my people walked these valleys and mountain vale,we knew every twist and trail. 
Over the great waters came the white mans sails.Once my children played just over
there.While my squaw cooked o......

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...As you drove out the Cherokee the Chicaaasaw the Choctaw the muscogee- creek and 
Seminole, 
so Iwill drive you out.
"I am the lord your God who brought you out of Egypt;
I will Make you Live in ......

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...
Many moons ago,
a languishing lamentation flow
carved a grievous path
in the red soil

Defying moral gravity,
downtrodden fallow weeps 
flowed upward   to the heavens
With river Nile......

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...To Kill The Choctaw Cow

The Choctaw Nation Oklahoma, with proud and noble people
Hunting is our nature and our way
Pretty Tail was a family member, a friendly cow
She gave us milk for many moon......

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...I sit here steeping in the History 
of Our Land, a class, my eyelids dense.
Our Flag hangs in the corner of the class
Red and White folds in deluge, licking the
framed portrait of our Thomas Jeff......

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