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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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David Welch
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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Matthew Harris
Categories:
iroquois,
allegory, america, analogy, animal,
Form:
Free verse
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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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
iroquois,
america, history, irony, language,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Jim Yerman
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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David Welch
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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David Welch
Categories:
iroquois,
america, history, humanity, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
iroquois,
native american,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
iroquois,
city, kiss, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
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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Kim Rodrigues
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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David Welch
Categories:
iroquois,
africa, anger, history, how
Form:
Rhyme
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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Emanuel Carter
Categories:
iroquois,
spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
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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L Milton Hankins
Categories:
iroquois,
america, history, language, new
Form:
Quatrain
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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Dennis Spilchuk
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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Allan Terry
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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Gregory Golden
Categories:
iroquois,
imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
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