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

The Genocide At Wounded Knee

On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians...

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Categories: hotchkiss, america, death, military, murder,
Form: Narrative

The Black Hills Wept For Thee

The Black Hills wept for Thee

East of the Black Hills of South Dakota, 
On the Pine Ridge Reservation,
Live a proud tribe of Oglala Lakota, 
Part...

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Categories: hotchkiss, betrayal, blessing, children, december,
Form: Ballad

Wounded Knee

Historically accurate, narrative poem

29 December, 1890 - At Wounded Knee Creek

A baby cries for its mother slain
and a way of life dies on that frozen...

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

A Historic Event

In the heart of my heart
I cry for you
in the harbor of my despair
I feel your emptiness
a land once yours was lost
stolen by men whose...

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Categories: hotchkiss, betrayal, conflict, death, native
Form: Free verse

Pale Riders

Pale Riders
(Not for the under-eighteen crowd, or the faint-hearted.)


Stars and Stripes waved in such bright glory,

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Categories: hotchkiss, history, military, murder, prejudice,
Form: Blank verse