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Short Dakota Poems

Short Dakota Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Dakota by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Dakota by length and keyword.


North Dakota
wide open spaces
plenty of place's to be
plenty to eat too...

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Categories: dakota, art,
Form: Haiku



South Dakota
the home of the brave
indian caves,exploring time
lets go.we can walk...

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Categories: dakota, art,
Form: Haiku
The North Wind
Killer of dreams
—the moment says goodbye

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: July, 2009)...

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Categories: dakota, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Can Cega
The drum beat of eternity
—keeper of the dream

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: June, 2006)...

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Categories: dakota, time,
Form: Free verse
Mount Rushmore Afternoon
Editing Poetry...
  which face comes off the mountain?

(Keystone South Dakota: August, 2013)...

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Categories: dakota, poetry,
Form: Ode



Akicita
One may lose his honor
—but it can never be taken from him

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: July, 2009)...

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Categories: dakota, pride,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member deer rutting moon
battle between bucks
	deadly duel-decided ~
		scavengers spectate

(November Full Moon – Dakota and Lakota)...

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Categories: dakota, animal, autumn, environment, moon, native american, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member blood worm moon
metamorphosis
	black-headed beetle larvae ~
		willful wings unfurl 

(March Full Moon – Naudowessie (Dakota)
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Categories: dakota, animal, environment, moon, native american, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member drying rice moon
lake-born brown wild rice
	dried flat by hot hardwood flame ~	
		canoe rests onshore

(October Full Moon – Dakota)...

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Categories: dakota, environment, food, moon, native american, nature, october,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member sore eyes moon
searing shining sun
	bedazzling snowmelt season ~
		a sight for sore eyes

(March Full Moon – Dakota, Lakota, Assiniboine)...

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Categories: dakota, environment, moon, nature, seasons, snow, sun,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member strawberry moon
tantalizing treat
	mustard burgeoning crimson ~
		mockingbird lipstick

(June Full Moon – Algonquian, Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota)...

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Categories: dakota, bird, environment, food, june, moon, native american,
Form: Haiku
Coming Back
In the middle of nowhere…
the center of it all

Coming back to my beginning
—one choice to recall

(Fargo North Dakota: August, 2019)...

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Categories: dakota, time,
Form: Rhyme
Black Elk's Prayer
“Fire of my words…
vanish like smoke
into a raging sky
Blanket forever
the memory
of my being”

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: July, 2009)...

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Categories: dakota, prayer,
Form: Free verse
The Winter Count
We die in the present,
but live in the past

Though the moment may claim us
—our memory to last

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: June, 1993)...

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Categories: dakota, time,
Form: Rhyme
Wovoka
From the Kiowa to the Cree,
 people sing and dance

Prairies ringed with fire
—a ghost returns at last

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: September, 1994)...

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Categories: dakota, dance, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Limerick
An Irishman from North Dakota
Of liquor had more than his quota.
His wronged wife who was mad
Said that he should be glad
He had blanket in his Toyota....

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Categories: dakota, addiction, anger,
Form: Limerick
Lakota Wisdom
The wolf demands
what the shepherd
can’t protect

A busy hand
helps the angry heart
forget

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: July, 2019) 
‘To Mari Sandoz’...

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Categories: dakota, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Because Bread Making Is Serious Business
My short name, my lucid green day
My South Dakota doll accent, my life-jacket
My worn through the knee blue jeans

A red ant 
struggles 
between the last two toes....

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Categories: dakota, childhood, introspection, nostalgia, time,
Form: I do not know?
Gimme a Brake
A UFO went to land in Dakota
But the brakes didn't work one iota.
        It didn't take long
        to decide what was wrong
seems the space ship was made by Toyota!...

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Categories: dakota, funny
Form: Limerick
Roman Toga
There was an old man from Saratoga
Who always wore an old Roman toga
Spice of parties they’d shout
Showing bony knees he’d flout
Till he froze to death in North Dakota....

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Categories: dakota, humor,
Form: Limerick
Crazy Horse 1
Knowing I won’t answer
you’re welcome to ask
Questions like a distant
echoing wind
Blown into nothingness
— chasing the past

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: Fall, 2010)
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Categories: dakota, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Met Her Quota
I met a salesman from North Dakota Who was adept at meeting her quota More money she made Than jobs ever paid And she shared not with me an iota.
June 11, 2021...

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Categories: dakota, fun, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Jerk's Quirk
There once was a jerk from Sarasota
Who fondled a nice girl named Dakota
She sued him for cause
To control his paws
To avoid time, he fled in a Toyota.

written July 26, 2021...

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Categories: dakota, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member North Dakota Sunset
Anther shamanic sunset in the upper Midwest
Magical brush strokes and hues that redact your mind to the test
Assisted beauty consolidating at the end of day
Memories of the heart that are created to stay...

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Categories: dakota, beauty,
Form: Quatrain
Graves of Our Fathers
The Black Hills are crying,
our Mother forsaken

Enemy boot prints
where moccasins claim

To live just to die
in noble futility

All drums beat in silence
—He Sapa in shame

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: July, 2019)...

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Categories: dakota, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme

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