Persusasive Waters
...persuasive “ “ “ “ “ “ “ waters in gravitational pull
plummeting “ “ “ “ “ “ “ in the midst; a misty rainbow
of flamboyant “ “ “ “ ...
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Categories:
mohicans, art, autumn, beauty, water,
Form: Ekphrasis
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
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Categories:
mohicans, america, history, irony, language,
Form: Rhyme
According To Gump
...Ken Mattingly is mad
about being cut from the Apollo 13 crew -
now no one will see his zero-gravity backflip
until a later time, by then no one will care.
Tom Hank’s Luna capsule spins out of con...
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Categories:
mohicans, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The First Last Supper
...who would
have known
after all
was said
and done
the last of the
Mohicans had
left the room
and Elvis
had left
the building
but if you
still didn't
get it
the
proverbial
fa...
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Categories:
mohicans, muse,
Form: I do not know?
A Reader Asks
...A Reader Asks
Of the books that you’ve read
Which ones were the best?
Which ones caught your fancy?
Which ones passed your test?
Which ones made you laugh?
Which ones made you cry?
Which one...
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Categories:
mohicans, books,
Form: Rhyme
Lost In the Wilderness
...Drum's tight skin beats through perilous night
Hunter to be hunted under sun's glean
Running in woodlands in frightful flight
Wounded, bleeding, needing to be unseen
Chased by Mohicans in a lan...
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Categories:
mohicans, adventure,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Tribal Gypsies
...His voice is as a still whisper, a hushed sigh
Rippling through the evergreen mountain pines,
A spiritual being calls in native tongue, come unto
Me, my chosen people of the sacred plains.
The d...
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Categories:
mohicans, history, imagery, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Last of the Mohicans
...I have a new cell phone
It allows me to text...
I have finally caught up with the civilized world
Me...who swore on my soapbox....
"Not for me! Thanks, but no thanks, ..I'd ra...
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Categories:
mohicans, daughter, emotions, life, mother,
Form: Narrative
Last of the Mohicans
...Once existed an indian
Tribe from Algonquian
Linguistic stock.
Warlike in nature:power
Of the colonists were
Curtailed.
The hammer of God,
Fearless,death looms
Wherever they tread.
Fierc...
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Categories:
mohicans, adventure, conflict, culture, death,
Form: Ballad
After the Fire
...The fighting ended
long ago
the remnants of a race
clings to life
with great tenacity
Eyes gleam in
the darkness
the last of the
Mohicans steps foward
the last dance ...
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Categories:
mohicans, political, sad
Form: Free verse
Last of the Mohicans
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War
Brothers
More blood spilled
Red man and white
Love
For the Favorite Movie Contest.....
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Categories:
mohicans, adventure, loss, native american
Form: Lanterne
Last of the Mohicans
...Uncus, last of the Mohicans
Chingachgook mourns his only son
Now dead at Magua's evil hands
Uncus, last of the Mohicans
With Hawkeye he quietly stands
Looking out at twilight's gleaming
Uncus, ...
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Categories:
mohicans, loss, native american
Form: Triolet