Anna Liisa
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Anna Liisa was Great-grandmother's name. She emigrated from Finland at the beginning of the 20th century.
I have only one memory of Anna Liisa from back when I was 10. She was elderly then and ha...
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Categories:
paha, family,
Form: Haibun
Mount Rushmore: Carved in Stone
...Mount Rushmore: Carved in Stone
From deep within the Earth’s crust,
An orogeny pushes
The batholith upwards
To become “The Shrine of Democracy,”
Of weathered presidential faces
Chisele...
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Categories:
paha, america, history, patriotic, tribute,
Form: Verse
Paha-Sapa
...Run! Run!
My pony sweet butterfly
And carry me over Paha-Sapa!
Run! Run!
My sweet butterfly
Where the feet cannot touch
The soft grass pregnant of floating-flitting
Gulches!
Run! Run!
My sweet butt...
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Categories:
paha, life, love, sweet, sweet,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Here All History Shades
...My 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...
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Categories:
paha, grief, growing up, hate,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Great Mold
...Where the eyes lost their sparkles
Through the prairies-shadow lie,
What is South Dakota
A collective of arrowheads,
Deers, or buffaloes' dried skin?
Is the great Sioux chief sleeping?....
Or w...
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Categories:
paha, farewell, fear, lost, cry,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Vasava - An Untold Story 7/Many
...Vasava –An untold Story 7/ Many
The Palace of Magadh was thrilling with the joy of Utsava*
Every one from ministers to its court digni...
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Categories:
paha, life, love, musicday, day,
Form: Free verse
The Ballad of Dan Lowe
...Chorus: River pronounced Key-yip-pa-ha
Keya Paha River
Keya Paha River
Keya Paha River
The home of Dan Lowe's dream.
Narration:
When a cowboy's day is over,
And the campfi...
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Categories:
paha, cowboy-western, nostalgia, song-dream, day,
Form: I do not know?