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Seven Dwarfs

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There's a Cherokee Indian at the door.
What the hell is happening in this neighbourhood, last week it was the seven dwarfs, and who was the bloody spokesman, bloody Dopey.
Remember the good old...

Categories: powwow, giggle, humorous,
Form: Free verse

POWWOW

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Today I celebrate the Powwow…if you’ve ever seen one
you’d find it not only beautiful but informative and entrancing….
It’s the Native Nations’ ceremony of feasting, singing and dancing,

It’s ...

Categories: powwow, native american,
Form: Rhyme

Bawdy Parrot Takes Over Zoom

...Let’s have a family powwow on zoom.
That way we’ll get to see the new bride and groom.
Six households were ready to teleconference that day.
A dancing parrot with a nasty mouth kind of got in the ...

Categories: powwow, bird,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Ruckus At Clyde's Bar

...Big fight
Last night

Clyde's Bar
Bizzare

Tough guys
Streetwise

Much brew
Fists flew

Thrown chairs
Pulled hairs

Black eyes
Loud cries

One bloke
Nose broke

Heads bashed
Tee...

Categories: powwow, humorous,
Form: Footle

Slow Down, Little Sailor Man

...Slow down, little sailor man, it’s time to set sail
For a land where you can ride on moonbeams
Soar through the clouds and hold a dragon by its tail.

Slow down, little sailor man, it...

Categories: powwow, boy, good night, nursery
Form: Terza Rima

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; soldier...

Categories: powwow, native american,
Form: Rhyme

Petty Powwow

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How dare you bite me?
   Little mosquito
Go, find someone else
   To dig in your toe

   You bother me much
So I will just splat
   Now you're there, now not
You blood-sucking brat

I...

Categories: powwow, fun, insect,
Form: Quatrain

We Are the Ghost Dance Poets

...We Are The Ghost Dance Poets
  by David Lee Herring (The Powwow Poet)

  
We come together from near and far
Like wise men following the star
from the sweet Grass Hills, We come to be filled 
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Categories: powwow, dance, god, native american,
Form: Lyric

Mojave Token

...my first trip to Nevada
drove a car out of town
destination Avi in the Mojave

just the sound of it was music to my ears
I remembered a movie I loved
and that’s where it was set

Mojave… Moja...

Categories: powwow, appreciation, beauty, meaningful, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Heear

...Here is my every other...

15 minutes until the hour-
I have my tech tool powwow to scowl,

30 minutes from the end-
I'm in the descend,

I know I'm the key to this pen,

I know I know how ...

Categories: powwow, age, allegory, cool, endurance,
Form: Prose Poetry

Preparation Appreciation

...Pain is falling. Into your arms; pain is calling. Answer me! Pain says. Pain says jump. Anguish says how high sir. And the sky's the limit. It's right there. Here in your face; can you touch it? You ...

Categories: powwow, abuse, adventure, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Prose Poetry

Third Time Around

...Playing solitaire and writing poems
is the main use out of my computer
This computer is more than an item
will never replace the wife she’s cuter

My first wife left me for her online love
The second...

Categories: powwow, love, me, wife, me,
Form: Sonnet

The First Thanksgiving

...This is the story of the first Thanksgiving
The way things really took place
You remember, there were a bunch of turkeys
And Pilgrims from the human race

Now the story you've heard all your lif...

Categories: powwow, funny
Form: Rhyme