Choctaw Poems - Poems about Choctaw

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

... 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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

... 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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...“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 ......Read the rest...

...To Kill The Choctaw Cow The Choctaw Nation Oklahoma, with proud and noble people Hunting is our nature and our way Pretty Tail was a family member, a friendly cow She gave us milk for many moon......Read the rest...

...The once was a Native American Navajo Who served his country and to war did go. He wrote codes by the score Which helped end the war But came home to no fame, “Oh, no.” The World War II ends i......Read the rest...

...Tribe ~~~~~ The greatest hallmark of my sacred tribe Is one of profound pride and an irresistible strength To overcome any obstacle Descended of Shoshone, Choctaw, and the motherland From acros......Read the rest...