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Bring Back Neanderthal Man

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     ~ An Eight-Line Treatise on 'Settler Colonialism' ~

         The Apache beat up on the Cheyenne
           and the Iroquois on the Sioux

         Mohawks ‘mohawked’ the Mohicans
      ...

Categories: mohawks, america, history, irony, language,
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...

Categories: mohawks, history, imagery, memory, people,
Form: Rhyme

Halloween 2020

...3 Senryu and a few Limericks

an eerie shadow
a hand touches my shoulder
....a double parked broom

shrieks in the graveyard
skeletons in the moonlight
.....a timpani of old bones

arched b...

Categories: mohawks, halloween,
Form: Senryu

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Beast and the Bairns, Part I

...I.
Amity Bairns came home late one fall day,
Clothes in tatters, face white with shock.
Her mother cried and ran from the cabin,
Brother Amos jumped up from where he rocked.

In the lands west ...

Categories: mohawks, dark, family, history, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Wake Up and Smell the Tea

...(This poem is a lightly satirical look back in history at what 
  was known as the Boston Tea Party)


Something's brewing on the Dartmouth
"Are those Mohawks that we see."
No, but over-taxed c...

Categories: mohawks, history, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Yes, Boss

...Please don't ask  me to mince my words
If you talk crap I'll call you all  turds.
I'll say how it is, I'll make no bones,
I'm not a believer of glossed over tones.

You've been hired to work, no...

Categories: mohawks, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Lily of the Mohawks

...Kateri Tekakwitha –
the follower of Dekanawida.
Woman of supernatural events,
even during her earthly life.
 
Strange are your ways, oh Lord.
Many from your house are getting lost
and many str...

Categories: mohawks, philosophy,
Form: Verse

Soul Stance River - 4

...William Branton has just run into camp as if the earth is falling away from his heels,
he has spotted a large cluster of Indians to the south moving towards us on horseback, 
an estimated 100 + Bra...

Categories: mohawks,
Form: Epic

The Stuff

...the stuff legends are made of mysteries from the skies                                                    lightning marks the spot as allusive as the thunder birds cry                                ...

Categories: mohawks, america, christian, jesus, journey,
Form: Couplet

Rapid Response Turtle Team

...Rapid Response Turtle Team, R2T2, is their name, saving is their game!
They’re ‘Mary River Turtles’, headquartered in a submarine, but not tame.
Forever, on call: a better bunch of blokes, you've nev...

Categories: mohawks, fantasy, fun, funny, imagination,
Form: Light Verse

The Drean Catcher : a Red Indian Legend !

...Dear Friends , Last year end , while reading about the Red Indian Tribes of America , I got 
inspired to write this simple poem about the 
Dream Catcher ! Hope you like it .

THE DREAM CATCHER : ...

Categories: mohawks, native americannature, red, america,
Form: Narrative

Catfished Strange Lookin' Critters On Earth.

...Catfish hashed halibutt steaks bloodied red rare...
Nothin' more to eat-I really don't care or give a 
dam. No-no-no more mistakes, Sir Sam i am
Don't give a dam flim flam.Hidey Howe and away
we ...

Categories: mohawks, food, nature, planet,
Form: I do not know?