American Buffalo
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Where have all the bison gone
shot by Sharps shooters nearly every one
where have all the shooters gone
done away by Indians more than some
the red man revered the buffalo
of Manitou's...
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Categories:
bighorn, animal, death, environment,
Form: Rhyme
ClouDrive
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Wolf.
Puma.
Long-necked (or was it
long-bodied?)
Dragon.
Forest...Fire.
A Bunny, cute -
and on its back.
A Bounding Fox
with Seaspray Fluff
of Following Tail.
A long-nosed Fel...
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Categories:
bighorn, dream,
Form: Free verse
Fleeing my song
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The Irish band was playing on a Vermont Green
People brought their outdoor chairs, it was a charming scene
I got carried away, tried to sing along
But from the looks on the faces, I'd done them ...
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Categories:
bighorn, humor, humorous, muse, music,
Form: Lyric
Slim
...Slim was an old Texas cowboy
had traveled cross this country some
Said he roamed the range all his life
and to 'Montana he had come
Cause down south it's hard to figure
what caused so much sti...
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Categories:
bighorn, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
To See Or Not To See
...*Image of Battle of the Little Bighorn by History.com
To See Or Not To See
General Custer had a sentry,
A man of trust whose name was Henry,
He lost his spyglasses,
Used his blur...
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Categories:
bighorn, fantasy, funny,
Form: Limerick
Where Do I Live
...Where do I live? I live
In the ever changing
Blues and greens of the ocean,
Darting soundlessly, weightlessly
From pink coral to white
Among the waving sea creatures
Amidst iridescent fish
And...
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Categories:
bighorn, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Unexpected Gift -- Update
...A horse and mule move through the heat and sun
Along the dry desert sands below the deep blue sky
Waiting and watching nearby on some cacti trees
Sit red-tailed hawks smaller birds and a elf owl
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Categories:
bighorn, blessing, horse,
Form: Narrative
Hey Mitch Mcconnell
...Hey Mitch McConnell...
about all this talk (I hear) about indefatigable (Phila/ Philly-buster)
Police sirens wail doth punctuate the air
ear splitting soundclouds blare
another typical arrest
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Categories:
bighorn, abuse, adventure, america, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Hubris
...A man who thought he would fly,
got too close to the sun,
set the ancient example
that’s told to everyone.
A ship that they claimed never
would sink beneath the waves,
until a looming iceberg...
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Categories:
bighorn, confidence, introspection, loss, people,
Form: Rhyme
Siege At Baker Ranch, Part I
...I.
Myron Baker wasn’t much of a man
for gunplay, whiskey, or ladies of the night.
He'd made his move out the western way
for space to live his life just as he liked.
He’d gotten himself a good...
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Categories:
bighorn, america, conflict, courage, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Brave Woman
...Brave Woman
Wounded and outnumbered by U.S. soldiers,
The Northern Cheyenne Warrior ‘Chief Comes in Sight,’
Fights to stay alive in the Rosebud Creek valley,
When his sister spo...
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Categories:
bighorn, america, education, family, hero,
Form: Verse
Crazy Horse Monument
...Crazy Horse Monument
Up there! On the Black Hills Mountain, 1
A work in progress sculptured in granite,
Of a stern faced warrior, strong and determined, 2
Unadorned in a wa...
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Categories:
bighorn, america, education, history, native
Form: Verse
Illegal Immigrants
...This poem was written after I took a tour of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Wyoming, the site of Custer's Last Stand.
It was the year eighteen sixty-eight.
The U.S. governmen...
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Categories:
bighorn, history, immigration,
Form: Blank verse
Government Show Shut Down December 2018
...Government (show) Shut Down December 2018
Messianic Don found tarnished appeal
trumpeted bluster thwarted
with muted (hip hip hooray) Democratic zeal
played (on microscale) like quashed
ill fa...
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Categories:
bighorn, america, anger, anxiety, grief,
Form: Free verse
Indian History
...The Indians are Najavo
The army says "GO"
"Go to the reservation,
they are for you preservation"
Wovoka started the Ghost Dance
To pull Indians out of their trance
"We will fight for refo...
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Categories:
bighorn, history,
Form: Couplet
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