Best Dutchmen Poems

William the First was our last king to come uninvited
though invincible armadas have sometimes been sighted.

Foreign kings were imported in cases of doubt.
Native kings had the habit of getting thrown out.

In the War of the Roses none tipped the scales
till the fray was joined by...

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The time of sailing ships is past
New faster automatic vessels upon old ships shadow cast
There are still few ships that have sailing mast  
But they are different from one’s from the past

In the graveyard of old ships seaweed covers every bow
And through ragged sails...

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Hear this recitation
the Lenape nation
bore a child of extreme size,
in the Onteoras,
the Catskills of yore now,
this man would live out his whole life.

Winisook was his name,
and he gained local fame
from standing at seven feet tall,,
to the red men and white
this guy was quite a site,
they’d...

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