Long Osage Poems
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The OutlanderI am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
osage, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
A Meadow For AutumnA meadow for Autumn
Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me
lichen kenning myself
as Rip Van Winkle
except being repurposed
as oldest living species.
With an estimated...
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Categories:
osage, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation, dark, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Wednesday September 2021 At 320 PmWednesday, September 2021 at 3:20 PM...
eastern standard time Autumn Equinox arrives
That seasonal occasion twill arise
when darkness and light doth bring
equilibrium between night and day
raking leaves will constitute exercise
espied and witnessed by observant earthling
namely me who...
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Categories:
osage, appreciation, autumn, celebration, destiny, environment, fate, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Figurative Paralysis Laid Waste Body Electric of MineFigurative paralysis laid waste body electric of mine
This is Spinal tap
bamboozling, binding, bleeding, bombing...
ripped from every dog eared
and book marked page
recounting latest ill fated fiasco,
now peppering my life and hard times
causing quite...
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Categories:
osage, absence, adventure, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
A Meadow For Autumnwhen eve doth fall upon summers’ end,
a hint of splendor bequeathed arose
upon firmament as changed scenery
(this third equinox act since new year) bellows
basses loaded and blasted in...
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Categories:
osage, age, allegory, autumn, change, environment, nature, september,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Break of Day Spawns Thwarted Revanchist Rebellion Among BiosphereThe last trailing tendril filaments
of moon beams nocturnally trace
fashion an illusory gilded chariot Ark,
whence upon celestial runners,
the approach of dawn's early light
illuminated terrestrial space
which nebulous solar city flanges
revisited since time millennial
hubbub of human race
nsync with...
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Categories:
osage, abuse, age, anger, appreciation, beautiful, betrayal, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Magical ForestAs I walk through the valley of the Red Maple trees
I take a look and realize that’s it’s a pioneer species
and that’s just a little bit of knowledge from me
You know i shun Bradford Pears,...
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Categories:
osage, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Antebellum ElegyPrologue
Abandoned and in disrepair the mansion
Is dark now; a story behind every stanchion.
It is an unwitting monument to a way of life,
Since foreclosed through bloody civil strife.
Antebellum
The hush of summer evenings cued the...
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Categories:
osage, history, native american,
Form:
Elegy
History of Kansas In RhymeAt one time eight different Native America Indian Tribes lived in peace,
In the state of Kansas, sharing buffalo, shared lands with no lease.
The Iowa, Chippewa, Delaware, Kansas, Osage, Pawnee and Kickapoo,
Shared venison, and fresh cool...
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Categories:
osage, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
Angerquaffing caustic acidic ale, a prankster did stage
analogous to raging figurative fire of rage
within my belly – riven asper spinal binding
ripped from every book marked page
caw zing quite an ache...
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Categories:
osage, anger, character, feelings, fire, how i feel,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
A Bit of HistoryThe word "Cherokee" is believed to be derived from a Choctaw word meaning "Cave People". Another explanation says it came from a Creek word "Chelokee", meaning "People Of A Different Speech".
It was picked up and...
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Categories:
osage, history,
Form:
Free verse
Go West, Young Man (But Not So Fast)!The old saw "Go West, Young Man" is attributed to Horace Greeley,
But it was coined by a writer from a Terre Haute paper, really!
Horace was agin' westward expansion and was filled with doubt,
So in 1839...
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Categories:
osage, funny
Form:
Rhyme
Oh Sage OsageAged Osage;
twisting, turning,
tentacled specter of the soil;
centuries of thrills, you have seen.
Gnarly old fingers,
still reach for brother sun’s embrace
and you share your elation freely.
Stories told in limb and bough,
are road...
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Categories:
osage, nature, tree,
Form:
Prose
"a Frozen Prayer"I wrote this poem for the people of Oklahoma that was in the frozen storm
in Jan.2007.
Please hear us Lord when we say this prayer.
Tell those who need help that you are there.
They have no food...
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Categories:
osage, faith
Form:
Prose Poetry
MOVEIt’s always sunny in the city where you feel your brother’s love
Like a shiv that someone’s thrust into your side.
Guess those Quakers let their sourdough turn rancid over time.
Now it’s hard to shovel s**t against...
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Categories:
osage, allegory, anger, anti bullying,
Form:
Lyric
Osage SunsetI imagine the echo of the once thundering herds,
Before the Bison succumbed to the tallow vats.
I listen for symphonies of the missing songbirds,
That made the Osage foothills their habitat.
The land that was theirs is no...
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Categories:
osage, faith, inspirational, nature, nostalgia,
Form:
Lyric
Homage To the OsageWhere the Osages' God almighty once reigned
The almighty dollar their proud life- blood drained
As man- made arteries pumped out the rich black oil
Making a mockery of their sacred soil
Their native American dream withered...
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Categories:
osage, anger, hurt,
Form:
Rhyme
Osage OrangeWe nod into gentleness like genocide
sleep in flourishing sanity
through elms sifting epitaphs.
Our sheen of silence on white...
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Categories:
osage, angst, childhood, death, father, introspection, loss,
Form:
Free verse