Choctaw Poems - Poems about Choctaw

...I love the grey hairs at my temples and stretching down to touch the wrinkle in my brow. I love these soft hairs on my arms, my legs, the little ones on my knuckles and the tops of my toes. I l......

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... Written: September 08, 2024 For Edward Ibeh Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ He has blue eyes and lovely blond hair, Curls rose above his pink and pretty ware......

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...Is the wind alive? That’s what the Choctaw believed. The Apache called it, apocryphally, “the breath of the world.” To them, the wind is the trickster you never see, a joker on the plain of life......

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...Quietly, feathered soles steal across fields soft as Choctaw spirits' slipping shadows; frescoed frost glazes summer remnants of pumpkin and persimmon. The blackberry moon bends low, pursed lips ......

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...Every other Friday afternoon before Bumblebee would leave on her special errand, her mother would open the old cedar trunk at the foot of her bed and give Bumblebee three things to carry with her to ......

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...Allow me the opportunity to acquaint you with a few particulars regarding the background to our story and place the principals securely in the context of the setting in which we take our sojourn with......

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...Herons fragment the mist, appear and disappear while remaining motionless. The skiff rocks as a coal barge trundles past. A dewy sky shivers. Nowadays he just sits in a boat looking at Ohio. T......

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...Since Billie Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge Nothing has been the same up on the Choctaw ridge Since Bobbie Gentry, it appears Up and completely disappears The Mississippi delta has a new ......

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... Remember the 1967 hit "Ode to Billy Joe"? Number one on the music charts is where it would go. It was recorded by country-western singer Bobbie Gentry. This singer-songwriter reached wor......

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...The word "Cherokee" is believed to be derived from a Choctaw word meaning "Cave People". Another explanation says it came from a Creek word "Chelokee", meaning "People Of A Different Speech". It was......

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...I am dipped in burnt sage smudged with black skin Choctaw infused in my DNA Creole seasoning the roux in my bloodline I slow simmer for I am daughter of strong warrior Too powerful to give ......

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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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...The Choctaw never taught me what the Choctaw would’ve taught me. The Australopithecine never taught me what the Australopithecine would’ve taught me of. The Memories, these Memories, our Me......

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...I sit here steeping in the History of Our Land, a class, my eyelids dense. Our Flag hangs in the corner of the class Red and White folds in deluge, licking the framed portrait of our Thomas Jeff......

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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” From “Indian Reservation” by Paul Revere and the Raiders ......

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