Short Bighorn Poems

amidst grassy slope
                                         bighorn retires to home range
                                              begins chewing cud...

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General Custer couldn't muster
Enough men to form a cluster,
Indians shooting straight and true,
I think it might've been the Sioux,      ---- pronounced Soo
Had Custer in a fluster....

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*Image of Battle of the Little Bighorn by History.com

To See Or Not To See

General Custer had a sentry,
A man of trust whose name was Henry,
He lost his spyglasses,
Used his blurred eyeglasses,
Yelled, "Those Indians sorta friendly."

2022 June 01...

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After Custer’s death in the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Native American legends declare his ears were removed
He never listened in life, they said, so when he was reborn
He would have no use for ears, for surely this much he had proved




*Written August 25, 2014 for Dr. Ram's Chastushka Contest...

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The Indians are Najavo
The army says "GO"

"Go to the reservation,
they are for you preservation"

Wovoka started the Ghost Dance
To pull Indians out of their trance

"We will fight for reform,
and we will not conform"

Custer discovered gold,
in the land so cold

Forces clashed at the Little Bighorn
A battle full of scorn...

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Read a Book about a General named Custer
Pompous and Ambitious 
He was filled with Bluster 

Thought of Fighting Indians from Night until Muster 

Little Did he know in a Dream his Men were seen by Sitting Bull
The Great Indian Cheif of The Teton Sioux 

Attacked by Crazy Horse and Slaughtered at the Little BigHorn

General Custer's Massacre 

Doomed the Indians 

as They were met with American's Eternal Scorn...

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