Best Seminole Poems

THE DRAGLINE  for Pete Brett 

One hundred foot boom 
 7-½-yard bucket 
The tracks are like 
 Ones on the tracks of a tank
They...

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“They took the whole Cherokee nation
Put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife”
    ...

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Mohawk, Mandan, Kikapu, Cree,
Yakoma,Seminole, Crow,Shawnee.
Arapaho, Chippewa and Sioux,
Mystical names to me and you.
Names like Delaware, Fox and Paiute,
Listen to their music on the flute.
Lakota, Macuna,...

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Laying here in the cut with eyes closed,
listening to the soft, tinkling sound
of the Oriental wind chimes
My mind is calmed by peaceful meditations
In my heart,...

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secrets began leaving the building
bar codes covered the license plate's
threats intimidation badgering
and fear meaningless arousal

I began to focus on her treason
again a righteous over reasoning
I...

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My Saint John flow on
Through forest, marsh and town's spread
Tablecloth of stars

Conquistadors gone
The blue herons walk alone
In moonlight's silence

River and lone night
Memory is a wind's...

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As you drove out the Cherokee the Chicaaasaw the Choctaw the muscogee- creek and 
Seminole, 
so Iwill drive you out.
"I am the lord your God...

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There is a sickness in my heart
It began a long time ago
With three evil spirits that came out of the sea
From the land of the...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Black Seminoles
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: March/2014


I am a black Seminole Indian.
A fierce warrior on the Florida
plains - At war with the 
Americas,...

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Many moons ago,
a languishing lamentation flow
carved a grievous path
in the red soil

Defying moral gravity,
downtrodden fallow weeps 
flowed upward   to the heavens
With river Nile...

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Untold
By Nate Spears
Published 2013 in “Death OF A Rose” By Nate Spears


Today time is unknown
Tomorrow I declare throne
Sitting
Hoping
Wishing
You could see into this wrong
My prolonged unhappiness
Is...

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I walk alone through the tranquil wood,
 for a time unconcerned,
 for the cares of this world.
This is an ageless,sacred place
untouched by the passage of...

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Jacksonville, at this hour, tell me
Do you miss me where the river flows
Through Florida's tangled history
Where the Mocama cotton grows

Do you see me driving early
To...

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One has a rallying spear 
Other has a chomp to fear 
But on the weekend to give gratitude 
A Seminole and Gator won’t be showing...

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I am one of the disposessed
you took my land from the north 
east and west
you took my home and you
took the best,
how can my broken...

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