Best Meriwether Lewis Poems

They were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,
Her name was Sacagawea.
On an expedition they did embark
Finding the passage to the sea.

Down the Missouri they traveled, 
Then slithered 'round the Snake River bend.
Rocky Mountain weather and sickness battled;
At the Columbia River they'd end. 



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Born the daughter of a Lemhi Shoshone chief
she was captured by the Hidatsa in her teens. 
And sold to the Mandan Missouri River tribe
where she met and married Toussaint Charbonneau.

A French Canadian trapper and a trail guide
Charbonneau was familiar with the region.
Meriwether Lewis and William...

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The delegation arrives in a procession of handsome, barbaric lineage
rugged in animal accoutrements and subdued in the presence of the future's skin,
the women, fine in wild beauty are bejeweled in beads, white and blues
that accent their pretty brown bodies like flowered earth
they present Clark and...

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Amelia,
writer, reader, shower singer, kitchen dancer,
Sister of James,
Lover of family, friends, and a badly-named boy,
who feels the weight of the world, love, pain,
who fears bones, secrets, fights
Would like to see a published book of mine, my friend's next reply, Hokkaido
Resident of Gifu, Japan,
Marie
friend, fearful, prideful,...

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Somewhere, a Blue Flax cluster blooms.
  Their beauty lasts but for a day
Then die in the sun unobserved.

  Someplace, an old man lies dying
Alone in the dark with no one
  To comfort and pray at his side.

Oftentimes I amble in fields
 ...

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One hundred years ago, or so,
The train that hauled logs 
From Baw-Faw Peak to Glenoma, 
Ran right through the center
Of the place we now live.

The rails are long gone now,
Lost to the ravages of time,
Though pieces of it can be found
From time to time when...

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Grave
of Meriwether Lewis
murdered...

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