Best Hiawatha Poems

The Cave

I descended in the cavern,
Through a passage, I descended,
Deep and deeper, ever narrow,
Ever further, ever darker.

As I sat and turned my light off,
Not a glimmer, not a flicker,
Not a shine of distant lantern,
Utter darkness, black and starless.

Not a sound of beast or human,
Not the...

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Riding bareback ‘cross the wide plains
Brave Geronimo in his deep pain
Makes his pathway, looking forward
Never losing faith in fortune
To the far off land Dakota
Where he will seek for an answer
To the question that pursues him:
How and why and where he came from.
Warrior, peace man, loving...

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Peacemaker of the forgotten days.
 He fasted and suffered
 for the peaceful relations
 of all the people.
 
“My poor children, listen to the word of wisdom,
 listen to the word of warning
 from the lips of Great Spirit,
 from the author of life”.
 
 Abandon...

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Today we traveled from Bayfield, Wisconsin to Bark River, Michigan
We are staying at a beautiful cabin by the lake….
The 200 mile drive went smoothly…except for one slight navigational mistake.

We planned to stop at this 52 foot. statue of Hiawatha 
In Iron River…where…since 1964 he has...

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The 90 year old
Could no longer bend or even lean
Over
His brother’s grave

Stands in the sun with his planted cane

At his elbow

Tells me
He hears his brother speak from the grass
“Bobby, where have you been all these years?”

Dad turns to me
Says when he was 13
And the Army...

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