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Shawnee Poems - Poems about Shawnee

Premium Member TECUMSEH
... Today’s blessing comes from the Shawnee chief Tecumseh I thank him for giving me a rest… besides there is nothing I could addl…because Tecumseh said it best. So live your life that the fear of......

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Categories: shawnee, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
How Ohio Came to Fame
...A fragment of matted stone breaks surface, it is already colonized by moss and fungi factories. Eventually all will churn green spawns to green lawns, not yet of course, ‘yet’ has t......

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Categories: shawnee, poetry,
Form: Free verse



A Short Drive into Autumn
...September has mottled the forest maples. South of here, zombie cicadas chafe heated thighs, but North of Tippecanoe Shawnee trails lead into autumn. We take photographs, but the green still s......

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Categories: shawnee, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Absolute deafening silence
...Absolute deafening silence... during and after a moderate snowfall today January 19th, 2024, within Southeastern Pennsylvania and elsewhere across the Eastern Seaboard, whereby blanket of whit......

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Categories: shawnee, adventure, age, angel, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
How exciting; first appreciable healthy snowfall 2024
...How exciting; first appreciable (healthy) snowfall 2024... within hinterlands of Perkiomen Valley Pennsylvania occurred January 6th promptly at noon. Virgin whiteness blankets terrestrial r......

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Categories: shawnee, adventure, animal, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



Corn Fields Already Glue Themselves To a Yellowing Future
...If you lean slightly left while facing the sewage plant then that view of Ohio could be back in the 18th century, there's even a long cabin resurrected from somewhere else and replanted here. ......

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Categories: shawnee, poetry,
Form: Free verse
New Growth In Ohio
...A scrap of ore breaks surface. The metallic pebble is already colonized by moss and fungi factories, in a millennia rocks will churn a green spawn into small rural towns. Fields of new g......

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Categories: shawnee, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Voice
...The unmistakable sound of a bear crashing through undergrowth. “You are a Shawnee brave,” a voice says out of my dark space. “No I'm not,” I reply panicking “I am old and fat!” “Take up y......

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Categories: shawnee, poetry,
Form: Free verse
River Watching
...A string of scows lift on a late flux. Sunset spreads itself along the crests of far hills. The Ohio plunges into cooling shadows, then a shimmering pause as the water opens its body. Ripples......

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Categories: shawnee, poetry,
Form: Free verse
First Appreciable Healthy Snowfall 2022 Occurred January 28th
...First appreciable (healthy) snowfall 2022 occurred January 28th Virgin whiteness blankets terrestrial realm bajillion snowflakes tumble out of sky atavistic fascination awakened agog at ice cry......

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Categories: shawnee, adventure, environment, hair, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Midwest Nest
...Here in my suburban acre of Ohio; I feel the generations, the hungarians, the irish and germans, the dutch, the blacks, the shawnee. We are not a melting pot, we are birds and critters brought h......

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Categories: shawnee, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Anticlimactic Mood After February 18th 2021 Snow Storm Subsided
...Anticlimactic mood after February 18th, 2021 snow storm subsided I hate spoiler alert regarding weather forecasters prediction, especially when meteorologist wannabe spouse doth blurt out impe......

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Categories: shawnee, 12th grade, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Shawnee Vets
...(for America’s original true Veterans) Government of Kings where shall you bide? Now that the Great Horned Serpent has appeared while Thunderbirds screech and lament in desolate skies? O......

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Categories: shawnee, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Licking River
...Licking River, a tributary of the Muskingum in Ohio It's a Shawnee word for “swampy ground” it ain't no typo Bet you're glad you tuned in Hope it made you grin I'm always here to spread c......

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Categories: shawnee, cheer up,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Lady Liberty Still Stands Proud In New York Harbor
...When did the arms of Lady Liberty turn inwards Her torch extinguished; her poem long forgotten? You have heard me say it often since begotten That which makes America greatest is her diversity. ......

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Categories: shawnee, america, history, language, new
Form: Quatrain

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