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:
kiowa, america, history, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part I
...I.
When he was born he was named Reid Gibson,
and his parents weren’t the richest of folk,
didn’t have money to buy land back east,
so off to the great frontier they did go.
This was way back ...
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Categories:
kiowa, adventure, family, history, loss,
Form: Epic
Wovoka
...From the Kiowa to the Cree,
people sing and dance
Prairies ringed with fire
—a ghost returns at last
(Pine Ridge South Dakota: September, 1994)...
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Categories:
kiowa, dance, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Custer At the Washita
...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 h...
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Categories:
kiowa, native american, war, ,
Form: Narrative
Pea Soup
...Pea Soup
A lot of party people have perfect bowels.
What would it take to totally kaput Nork's military machine?
Same ferocity in battle as that one bollock corporal’s?
All along the periphery...
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Categories:
kiowa, conflict, history, satire, war,
Form: Verse
Subaru - Plieades Form
...Seen in the deep forest
Seven Indian maids
Seeking fun and frolic
Scared by a massive bear
Shooting rock arises
Scratching bear in pursuit
Safety in the heavens
This is the Kiowa legend ...
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Categories:
kiowa, america, native american,
Form: I do not know?
Screach Eagle
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Kiowa Arapahoe all on the trail
The bronze of the warrior the bird is not male
Put down a pit with meat and some sticks
Here lie and wait is cleverly tricked
She swoops and saws and looks fo...
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Categories:
kiowa, animalslost, bird, bird, lost,
Form: I do not know?
Abbi of Bacabi
...She left one day, her Kiowa village
And stood proudly in the sun
Beneath the Tabletop Mountains
And walked among the golden sea
Of waving grass, fearless and alone
Waiting, with keen ears and s...
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Categories:
kiowa, art,
Form: Ekphrasis