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Shawnee Poems - Poems about Shawnee

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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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: shawnee, adventure, animal, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Things of the Heart
...People sometimes tell me the heirlooms given to me hold no value over how my heart feels, but these things have memories, stories of where they've come from that tug at my heart. They’re scattered a......Read the rest...
Categories: shawnee, family, happy, memory, perspective,
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. ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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. ......Read the rest...
Categories: shawnee, america, history, language, new
Form: Quatrain
Short Drive Into Autumn
...South of here, zombie cicadas chafe heated thighs, but North of Tippecanoe Shawnee trails lead into autumn. September has mottled the forest maples. We take photographs, but the green still s......Read the rest...
Categories: shawnee, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Ohioan Time-Scapes
...A fragment of matted stone breaks surface. It is already colonized by moss and fungi factories; eventually they will churn green spawn into rural Ohio towns; not yet of course, ‘yet’ has to wai......Read the rest...
Categories: shawnee, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

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