Best Wampum Poems

Is there anything to give you that you haven't had before?
all my wampum ,all my seashells,all my furs are on the floor

take these shiny pebbles...

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I've never seen a baby so merry as Martha...
They say March newborns are bellwethers for blissful Springs Mary...
Hannah, Haverhill has been a hard place to...

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Inches make feet without inches there is no foot without beginnings there is no work without measure there is no dearth without a ruler there...

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Adventure’s End

The journey brings back, strings of wampum. 
A belt telling stories, projecting memories.
Moments portrayed in coloured beads.
A summer’s experience, in southern Ontario,
they are the...

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Amid 240 units of toil
Reigns my Connie
Where she walks
Is blessed soil

California sun
To match her hair,
No nature's beauty
Could compare

Sitting at a table,
With her friend Denise,
Mulling over...

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HOLDER OF THE HEAVENS

     religion of love —
the Holder of the Heavens
spurs unity and purpose

     the longhouse...

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With one mighty swing of your forty-two ounce bat,
out of the ballpark was where the baseball was at.
A great player blessed with athletic prowess,
you made...

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OBVIOUSLY 
Obviously, the people who lived contemporary with dinosaurs were intelligent, 
and the footprints indicate that they were quite human as the large toe on...

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the quahog clam shell
for chowder and wampum beads
...Iroquois treasure

8/17/2018...

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You wear your feathers proudly like a tribal chief.
However, the things you do cause your better half’s grief.
You gamble away the wampum that was meant...

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He hardly had anything to say.
Many flocked to him
just to hear his no-wisdom.

I also have no-wisdom,
yet I fail constantly to employ it.
My silence is as...

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