History Buffalo Poems

No one’s exactly sure how this buffalo in the 1960s
Found its way to live in the heart of the city
How it separated from a sky...

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You cannot look at me
Without amazement
Let me entice the creativity 
You cannot be close to me
Without respect 
Let me honour myself
I was born for this
The...

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Dreams of the Shaman 
David J Walker

It was the Prairie version of Eden
In the evening light 
Awaiting the day exposing the
Cover of Buffalo Grass 

Its...

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Buffalo Soldier

If you know your history
 Then you will know where I'm coming from
 Jam to Jah
 Rhasta enlighten man
 Out in the bush where...

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THE BUFFALO
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


THERE WAS A TIME I ROAMED THESE PLAINS
FAR BEYOND WHERE THE EYE CAN SEE
IF YOU LIVED ON THESE PLAINS 
YOU HAD TO...

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Buffalo Bill

Stood in the rain and caught a chill

Was very ill and in some pain

He moaned and groaned…"This is a calamity, Jane!!"...

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In change wherever you go,
on a nickel, you will find Monticello.
It was not that way years ago.
The reverse depicted a buffalo.
Thomas Jefferson also is shown...

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There once was a time
During the long forgotten era
The frontier so majestic
In the age of the arrow

All the tools needed
The Earth would provide
Nothing went to...

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Such a dull and dreary existence
So labeled as we’re frowned upon
A glutton’s call, revolting resistance 
As normal a routine as the rising sun
Constant hunger, constant...

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(Chief White Buffalo speaks) 

Long knives turn dark the west sky,
Bring big iron horse on rails that roar—
My people now starve and die,
Where buffalo thunder...

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