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Iroquois Poems - Poems about Iroquois

The Helderbergs
...The trails runs the edge for several miles, a clifftop walk, it is no great trial, atop a long precipice of limestone, where big, black vultures soar, and make their home, a rugged wall, by ancie......

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Categories: iroquois, america, appreciation, imagery, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Shattered dreams of New Canaan
...Shattered dreams of New Canaan no longer land of the free home of the brave, original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified, where diseases xeroxed ambushed, crushed, extinguished, squashed......

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Categories: iroquois, allegory, america, analogy, animal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bring Back Neanderthal Man
... ~ An Eight-Line Treatise on 'Settler Colonialism' ~ The Apache beat up on the Cheyenne and the Iroquois on the Sioux Mohawks ‘mohawked’ the Mohicans ......

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Categories: iroquois, america, history, irony, language,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member GNRT DAY 32 A LITTLE HISTORY
... Today as we traveled from Michigan into Canada across the twin cities of Salt Ste. Marie…. on the 300 miles of this journey…we learned a little more history…. The name Canada most likely came ......

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Categories: iroquois, history,
Form: Rhyme
The Fort, In Days of Old
...The paddlewheel unloads people, tourists who were out on a cruise, above the docks and the gift shops the brown palisades come in view. (The canoes draw up on the beach, Iroquois out looking t......

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Categories: iroquois, history, imagery, memory, people,
Form: Rhyme



There Was No Noble Savage
...I sometimes hear a stubborn myth, that before Europeans came the locals of America all lived lives quite peaceful, and tame. The old trope of the Noble Savage, that somehow manages to persist,......

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Categories: iroquois, america, history, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Legend of the Thunder Bird
...american indians know the good deeds and intentions of the thunder birds. Ojibwe say they were created by Nanobozho to punish immoral humans. thunder birds have supernatural powers and strength, wo......

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Categories: iroquois, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mapmaker, Mapmaker Me
...Warsaw, Moscow cities in Indiana Pekin, Paris towns in Illinois All four northwest of the Iroquois... Don't ask me why I wrote this Ask me inst......

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Categories: iroquois, city, kiss, silly,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Two Poems About the Iroquois
...Ruler of the Cataracts-Maiden of the Mist The thundering waters of the Niagara. Voice of the mighty spirits of the water. The natives believed and yearly sacrificed a white canoe with fr......

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Categories: iroquois, native american,
Form: Free verse
You Are Owed No Reparations, Part Ii
......And what of my English background, when those damn Normans came to town, they slaughtered us, and left us ruled, by Frenchman with ambitions cruel! So Paris owes me lots of cash, and London o......

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Categories: iroquois, africa, anger, history, how
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ritual
...RITUAL The anthropology professor said Iroquois ways were a fading reflection, a cultural trace of a poetic narrative of indigenous wisdom, tribal traditions that marry the spirit of a primit......

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Categories: iroquois, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lady Liberty Still Stands Proud In New York Harbor
...When did the arms of Lady Liberty turn inwards Her torch extinguished; her poem long forgotten? You have heard me say it often since begotten That which makes America greatest is her diversity. ......

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Categories: iroquois, america, history, language, new
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member When Cultures Collide
...When Cultures Collide Where the river ends And the ocean begins; Cultures collide And history’s tide, Erases a way of life For the indigenous people. St. Lawrence Iroquoians Welcom......

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Categories: iroquois, culture, education, history, native
Form: Verse
Melody Haromised
...FROM THE DESK OF HUGE GRAPPLYN IS BEING BOUGHT TO YOU BY the action packed love story... "SINGLED" THE FILM STARRING DRICCER DENNLES AND hEATHER HOLT cinema-cinema films in theaters Septembe......

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Categories: iroquois, sports,
Form: Ballad
The Sacred Iroquois Sky
...oh great mountain high what peaks that touch the sacred Iroquois sky as blue as robin's egg drift through her Iroquois eyes......

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Categories: iroquois, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse

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