Best Seneca Poems
Forgotten Feminist...Lucretia Mott
The meeker sex, she was not!
At the convention in Seneca Falls
Showed men aren't the only ones with balls!
1/26/19
For Educate Me with Humor contest
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich......
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Categories:
seneca, appreciation, women,
Form:
Clerihew
War Paint Mixture...
Haudenosaunee ...
translation: They made the house
But who painted it
the colors we now see ---
Red, white and blue
Let's go back in time shall we,
and observe who cut down the fi......
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Categories:
seneca, allegory, history, truth, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Two Poems About the Iroquois...Ruler of the Cataracts-Maiden of the Mist
The thundering waters of the Niagara.
Voice of the mighty spirits of the water.
The natives believed and yearly sacrificed
a white canoe with fr......
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Categories:
seneca, native american,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Hell, Fourth Canto, Second Part...Continuation from previous poem
We reached the footer of a castle steep,
Seven times by walls encircled very tall,
Defended by a river hard to leap.
We overpassed it as hard ground at all;
T......
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Categories:
seneca, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
A Few Words To the American Mogul...I don’t have the financial muscle
To wrestle the American State President intellectually
If the truth be told ;
I don’t have half enough in my savings account
To ridicule the financial dry season......
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Categories:
seneca, racism,
Form:
Epic
Seneca Nation...People flock to Naples.
Monday, lunch-crowd
Says, "I'll take the
Graveyard--'Bob n' Ruth's' special."
Seneca chiefs continue
Their conversations.
Symbols speak in
Passionate tongues.
Who's l......
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Categories:
seneca, native american,
Form:
Free verse
A Place of Creation...A Place of Creation
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Telephone City, Wayne Gretzky’s home town, the place of my birth.
Thirty three years, I played, worked and walked this piece of earth.
Given - by Sir......
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Categories:
seneca, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Lady Lake Seneca...Lady Lake Seneca
Full moon upon lake
Rippling waves bounce at my feet
Sea of stars below
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Categories:
seneca, poetry, stars, water,
Form:
Haiku
Important Words...I was asked, "What is important to you?" by a friend-
she was just making conversation...
I was silent, deep in thought of diversity-
The true meaning of important.
Other than the worldly treas......
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Categories:
seneca, adventure, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Did the Tree Spirits Die Too...Did The Tree Spirits Die Too
Shadows wrap the mighty black oaks
moving so slow like the older folks
Many decades have grown trees strong
I listen for that most ancient song
Terrible s......
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Categories:
seneca, appreciation, beauty, conflict, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
Siren Call...Siren Call
At night it's so strong
My Lady Lake Seneca
Calls to me the most
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Categories:
seneca, nature, night, poetry, water,
Form:
Haiku
Bald and Hairy..."It hurts bald men as much as hairy men to have their hairs pulled out."
~Seneca
The bald man moans
for his house, rooted up,
dripping above the sewer.
A q tip might plug it.
Alcohol might ......
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Categories:
seneca, hair, house, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Clothes Make the Man...Timendi causa est nescire (Ignorance is the cause of fear).
– Seneca
About two thousand years ago,
when Quintilianus said it
(at least, that’s who gets the credit),
his paradigm was apropos:......
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Categories:
seneca, history, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To Hope and Despair...Reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno,
In gloom cries today’s time: O there’s no scope
For whoso lives, abandon all the hope.
Maybe he’d reasons enough to think so.
Yet, if body’s in need of oxygen,
......
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Categories:
seneca, depression, hope,
Form:
Ode
Seneca Gun and Sonic Boom...Seneca Gun and A Sonic Boom
A Seneca gun is usually only one
After it has been over and done;
When you feel,
Wonder if real;
Two or more loom, were sonic boom.
Jim Horn......
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Categories:
seneca, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick