Long Paleface Poems
Long Paleface Poems. Below are the most popular long Paleface by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Paleface poems by poem length and keyword.
Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
paleface, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
November Second Two Thousand Twenty Two
November second two thousand twenty two...
abuzz with Autumnal thrum
Approximately six weeks since August sum
er re: lazy dog days witnessed lolling about
sipping cocktails, whose primary ingredient rum
pulled and sated esophageal tract nsync
with thirstily quaffing...
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Categories:
paleface, 12th grade, adventure, animal, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly,
Form:
Rhyme
October Twenty Third Two Thousand Twenty One
October twenty third two thousand twenty one...02:44:06 PM
Eastern Standard Time abuzz auld Durin
(ya know whit I'm Tolkien about
Elder days long regarding) Autumnal thrum –
The perfect balm to avoid feeling glum
supine upon greensward
I...
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Categories:
paleface, america, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, celebration, color, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
November First Two Thousand Nineteen
November first two thousand nineteen...
abuzz with Autumnal thrum
Divine myriad biota amidst
heavenly Lily of the valley
(Convallaria majalis),
he didst imaginatively greet
Edenic heavenly terra
incognita immeasurably sweet
nature's ensemble proffering
Gaia's quintessential orchestration
resplendent sensational treat
natural splendour regaling,
this fellow wayfarer
happenstance gifted autochthonous...
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Categories:
paleface, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Ode
Powwow
The native American and the paleface
Each claiming ownership over the place
For three hundred years they’d been fighting the fight
But peace would be parleyed later that night
Senators; soldiers; a chieftain or two
Agreed to talk peace by...
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Categories:
paleface, native american,
Form:
Rhyme
A Name By Any Other Arose
Native Americans call me 'Paleface'
'Roundeye' say the Chinese race
to a Scot I'm a 'Sassenach' 'Boyo' to those in Wales
altho' a 'Limey' in New York
I answer to none such hails
once a 'Gweilo' in Hong Kong Down...
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Categories:
paleface, fun, how i feel, humorous, i am,
Form:
Rhyme
Magnolia Dreams
Someone seemed to have invented a whiter shade of pale,
there was a mindset - I won't do it in case I might fail;
the paleface thought he was smarter than the natives,
and bathed in the prospect...
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Categories:
paleface, color, discrimination, immigration,
Form:
Sonnet
Silent Projector Reel
Hush, hush ...
late-night reality peepers
Roll the eyeballs, but don’t you dare gossip talk
Blush, blush ...
keyhole camcorder creepers
NDA motility disability got publicity legs that walk
Nude
Discreet
Activity
Keep it on the hush, hush ...
spin the cash credits...
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Categories:
paleface, corruption, fear, sin, truth,
Form:
Burlesque
American Buffalo
Where have all the bison gone
shot by Sharps shooters nearly every one
where have all the shooters gone
done away by Indians more than some
the red man revered the buffalo
of Manitou's abundance living proof
to the white who...
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Categories:
paleface, animal, death, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
Ballad of the Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger and Tonto
For years two loyal friends
Riding the range together
Fighting for justice's ends.
Kimo Sabe and his side kick
A Masked Man on his White Horse
And faithfully following along
That Brave Tonto of course.
Dead Mans...
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Categories:
paleface, adventure, friendship, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Atrocity
Whether the Indigenous People,
robed in leathers, head dressed in feathers,
who had their own sovereign nations,
wanted it or not,
June 2nd 1924,
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge
condescendingly signed the Snyder Act,
a.k.a., the Indian Citizenship Act, into law,
thereby conferring American...
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Categories:
paleface, america, identity, political, western,
Form:
Free verse
Now Or Later
What's the difference between now or later?
When we will all receive the gift of death we can't refuse
Death greets every nation
Both Negro and the Paleface
Whether you left at ninety or fifteen
Memories of you on earth...
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Categories:
paleface, death, death of a friend, life, poetry,
Form:
Free verse