Best Plymouth Poems
A year has passed. The dark clouds still loom.
From the sea voyage, harsh winter, disease, and doom.
The Mayflower set sail 102 Pilgrims aboard,
55 have went on to be with the Lord.
God has heard the Saints and their cry,
Not wanting them to suffer any more and die.
God will provide a wise and strong tribe.
The Wampanoag was chosen to be their guide.
The Wampanoag lived in huts.
They hunted, planted, gathered, fruits, and nuts.
Squanto was an English-speaking man.
Who taught the Pilgrims to hunt and work the land.
Some accounts by Ed Winslow, December 11,1621, in a letter.
With the dark clouds lifting, life is much better.
We built 11 houses and buildings, after the freeze.
Sowed acres of corn, barley and peas.
Our harvest was great. Our crops, abound.
We were taught to use herring and shad to manure the ground.
The last of the crops should be in storage by now.
Governor Bradford sent 4 men to hunt for foul.
We prepare for "Thanksgiving" it was a plentiful year
although the dates was not very clear.
Between September and November 1621
It was a 3 day festival of recreation and fun.
King Massasoit and 90 men from his tribe,
joined the Pilgrims bountiful feast, as history describes.
They gathered around and they bowed their head.
We give "Thanks to God" for this Harvest and our journey ahead.
Mayflower 400uk.org
11/16/21
snowflakes falling soon
precipitation a hop
away from ‘morrow
goosebumps like ice under sheets
might wear my sweater to sleep
12/25/2021
The locals’ boats all gathered round;
Napoleon was in The Sound
On board Bellerophon.
Two guardships kept the crowds at bay;
The Emperor was on his way
To exile, freedom gone.
Jack Horne for Dr Ram’s Tail Rhyme contest
By Dawne Zacharias
When the early pioneers landed in 1620
They were weary,
They came to worship the Lord in
The way the scriptures taught.
A Sign hoisted on board the ship said,
"They committed themselves to the Will of God
And resolved to proceed."
Cape Cod sighted on November 19, 1620.
A wooded land up to the edge of plenty.
The Mayflower Compact;
Laid the foundations of the first
civil body politic in America,
The covenant was given and taken;
It Laid the foundations of the
American republic.
No Monarchy or Dictatorship,
but upon, the consent of the governed.
On the Plymouth Rock monument it reads;
"They laid the foundation
of a state wherein every man
through countless ages
should have liberty."
plymouth sunflowers condescend
over greenhouse roof
8/28/2020