Custer Poems - Poems about Custer

At Little Big Horn in the prairie grass Custer was known as Yellow Hair alas. But it was Custer who fell and Crazy Horse they tell was from that day on known as Kickin’ Ass! The Seventh Cavalry on his command rode into battle severely outmanned. Now at West Point in his class they say...

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Somewhere in the general melee we lost our imaginary horses, their ghostly neighing adds pathos to this momentous moment. It was decided, we boys, and...

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So what I helped a bit, Turned a blind eye, Have I not always taught him To reach for the sky? He’s a good boy, Maybe just lost, But he tries so darn hard Little knowing the cost. I must though admit I too was quite thrown By the sheer huge amounts Of payments since shown. And then here comes Trump Full of his bluster, Figuring we’re the...

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Historically accurate, narrative poem 25 June, 1876 - Valley of the Little Bighorn Nothing stirs this June night, not a summer’s breeze or a breath of life. All is eerily quiet, and on yonder hillside, shroud of darkness and death descended, lay ten score men and more, naked, mutilated and dead, strewn grotesquely white among their...

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Historically accurate, narrative poem 27 November 1868, on the banks of the Washita River Dawn’s peaceful first light streaks the eastern skies, belying the horror of a marauding force of horses and men, silently stealing over new fallen snow preparing to deliver a fateful blow to the Cheyenne camp below. The silence is broken when bugles sound...

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Read a Book about a General named Custer Pompous and Ambitious He was filled with Bluster Thought of Fighting Indians from Night until Muster Little Did he know in a Dream his Men were seen by Sitting Bull The Great Indian Cheif of The Teton Sioux Attacked by Crazy Horse and Slaughtered at the Little BigHorn General Custer's...

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Arrogant Custer thought he was the greatest thing since the invention of dynamite! He took on Sitting Bull who outnumered him ten to one which wasn't very bright! He led the Seventh Cavalry to disaster never to answer another reveille call! "Yellow Hair" proved that old Biblical admonition, "Pride goeth before the fall!" Robert L....

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Custer Conceited Defeated For Brian Strand's "A Footle Retrospective" Contest...

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Over in the valley of the stars Filled with bow arrows and Grass Laying on their bellies crawling Around Trying to keep our hair I think we need to contact Mr Custer Come on Mr Custer help us Please For we want look good without Our hair It’s so cold over in this valley You can tell how the stars twinkle And drop the confetti Frost is dripping off the...

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