Short Custer Poems

Custer

          Conceited

                    Defeated

For Brian Strand's "A Footle Retrospective" Contest...

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The Yankee rancher still blusters
in a drawl he barely musters
launching holy wars
while behind locked doors
he would give more head than Custer....

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Mister Custer developed a blister
Then the blister just started to fester
He fostered a fluster
the faster it festered
Flustered Custer cussed the festered blister...

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You gave us food and we took your land

It's not right to make promises grand

  We took all your stuff

  Till you said enough --

And gave General Custer his last stand...

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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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A bold, bullly bronc buster called Custer
Broke stallions with sharp spurs and vile bluster. 
As champ his wins caused great grief,
Yet all riders called him chief,
‘Til Crazy Horse twisted him a duster....

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There once lived a general named Custer,

   Well-known for his arrogance and bluster.

      He met his Waterloo,

         By bands of wrathful Sioux.

            Could be said this was his final muster!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired...

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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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What did Custer bluster as he saw the Indians rushin' up the valley?

"HERE COME THE INDIANS, BOYS!  AIN'T NO TIME TO DALLY"!

Custer's brave troopers fought with all the force they could muster,

But the Indians won the day thereby makin' a widder of Missus Custer!...

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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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When Sitting Bull and Colonel Custer were locked in mortal battle,

   And with arrows flying and heard was the muskets' fearsome rattle,

      Finally surrounded and when all hope was lost, Custer was heard to say,

         "You must be bull sittin' me!"  Proclaiming with his last breath, "Foul play!"

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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Arrogant Custer thought he was the greatest thing since the invention of dynamite!

  He took on Sitting Bull who outnumered him ten to one which wasn't very bright!

He led the Seventh Cavalry to disaster never to answer another reveille call!

  "Yellow Hair" proved that old Biblical admonition, "Pride goeth before the fall!"

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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Oh, the leaves are liquid yellow
As we ride on through Custer Park,
In search of that old Badger Hole:
Home of the poet Badger Clark.

Yes, we come to step back in time—
It’s a historic rule of thumb—
Where the city does not crowd you,
And man can be scattered some.

The old cabin now sits empty—
A last poetic monument—
Proving that words can still live on
Where men have lived and come and went....

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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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