Long Missouri river Poems
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BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
missouri river, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Growing Up, La - Part 2- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
missouri river, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Gateway TownGateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay.
T.S, Eliot,...
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Categories:
missouri river, allusion, city, class, longing, racism, slavery, urban,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Stance River - 22The Great Falls of the northern Plains is actually a chain of five seperate waterfalls
varying in height and majesty extending over 12 miles,
they also confirm that the right river was chosen,
we had hoped that the...
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Categories:
missouri river, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Dignity: of Earth and SkyI love art and I love history….and I love how each one is transcended
when, to my joy and utter delight, the two of them are blended .
On a bluff overlooking the Missouri River in South...
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Categories:
missouri river, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
The Indigenous - the True American
Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate
Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the Cree
Dakota Sioux, the Dakota, meaning little snakes in Ojibwe
Euchee, or...
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Categories:
missouri river, joy,
Form:
Abecedarian
AbcApache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate
Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the Cree
Dakota Sioux, the Dakota, meaning little snakes in Ojibwe
Euchee, or...
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Categories:
missouri river, native american,
Form:
ABC
Relationship Rock Part TwoIt seems the ring so sparkly, caught the eye
of some observer, stopping in to talk
the time I took to pray, no more a balk
about God's reason, yet I knew the walk!
The ring was gone ~...
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Categories:
missouri river, love, love hurts, poetry,
Form:
Monorhyme
WanderlustSometimes you need to wander
Without a cause
Without purpose
Without a means
Without a reason for knowing why
Sometimes you need to wander
With lust
With purposeful lust
With a need to move from a stationary position
With no thoughts of a home
With...
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Categories:
missouri river, adventure, birth, fear, home, hope, joy, lost
Form:
Free verse
SacagaweaBorn the daughter of a Lemhi Shoshone chief
she was captured by the Hidatsa in her teens.
And sold to the Mandan Missouri River tribe
where she met and married Toussaint Charbonneau.
A French Canadian trapper and a...
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Categories:
missouri river, adventure, celebrity, history, imagery, native american, woman,
Form:
Blank verse
Long Fork Side TwoSantee Sioux now all stuck ~ Casino, road
under water !~ Missouri River, talkin' big
it needed water, the River valley dried up
Governor's howling, blaming Corps!
Our nation always at odds
Monica brought her silverware ~ Mom & Dad's
on...
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Categories:
missouri river, adventure, history,
Form:
Ballad
A Matched PairI frown into the mirror.
What happened?
Yesterday, we were newlyweds.”
"Fifty years ago," he says.
“You lost half a century.”
There's my husband, slouching
in the recliner, thinning hair,
frayed collar, expanding stomach.
A slow smile spreads across my face.
I...
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Categories:
missouri river, humor, marriage, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
My ValleyMy Valley
Tucked away in the north-central part of the state, about ten miles or so from where the clear and slow-moving water of the Grand River mixes with the quickly rolling mud of the Missouri...
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Categories:
missouri river, poetry,
Form:
Haibun
Diamonds of My Mind-The Diamonds of My Mind-
Even if you call my name
this is not me you see
looking back.
I see the reflection of the someone
who needs convincing.
The diamonds of my mind
remember...
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Categories:
missouri river, age,
Form:
Free verse
Reincarnationwas it a dream
or did we climb with giddy
anticipation
to the widows walk of the ancient house
and look out upon the Missouri River
silently rolling by?
Ghosts of steamers drift under the fog on the
river top
music drifting...
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Categories:
missouri river,
Form:
I do not know?
Here All History ShadesMy history beckons like the Prairies
Dry towns. Cute and fierce,
Fearless and enslavement,
As the likeness on the Platte,
The Powder, the Niobrara,
the Tongue, the Snake,
The Yellowstone, who, as an American buffalo,
Strange moonlight, explode
With gigantic waves!
My history...
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Categories:
missouri river, grief, growing up, hate, history, , cute,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Never More LovelyMissouri River with a briskness that raises my hair
Sprinkling of snow, but nothing frozen yet
I take a deep whiff of woodsy gladness,
Feeling more in touch with God than ever
The earth world has never been this...
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Categories:
missouri river, nature,
Form:
Imagism
Long Range Weather ForecastOctober hums the chilly tune of a lyric,
November croons to cold winds from the north,
When winter will sweep suddenly eastward
Blanketing the Black Hills with a coat of white--
Icy snow lingering until the Missouri River
Valleys have...
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Categories:
missouri river, memory, seasons, snow, weather,
Form:
Free verse