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Dutchmen Poems - Poems about Dutchmen


The Legend of Big Indian, Part I

...Hear this recitation
the Lenape nation
bore a child of extreme size,
in the Onteoras,
the Catskills of yore now,
this man would live out his whole life.

Winisook was his name,
and he gained ...
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Categories: dutchmen, america, history, loss, lost
Form: Narrative

You Don'T Have To Speak English Well, Or Even At All, To Be a British Monarch

...William the First was our last king to come uninvited
though invincible armadas have sometimes been sighted.

Foreign kings were imported in cases of doubt.
Native kings had the habit of getting ...
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Categories: dutchmen, england,
Form: Couplet



Ship Graveyard

...The time of sailing ships is past
New faster automatic vessels upon old ships shadow cast
There are still few ships that have sailing mast  
But they are different from one’s from the past

In t...
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Categories: dutchmen, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things