Short Iroquois Poems

the quahog clam shell
for chowder and wampum beads
...Iroquois treasure

8/17/2018...

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oh
great mountain high
what
peaks
that
touch
the
sacred
Iroquois sky
as
blue
as
robin's egg
drift
through
her 
Iroquois eyes...

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My great great great grandfather...

a long time ago
the people of the longhouse
kept my ancestors

8/17/2018

* I have a bit of Native American in my background :)...

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Warsaw, Moscow
       cities in Indiana

     Pekin, Paris
       towns in Illinois

     All four northwest
       of the Iroquois...

     Don't ask me why I wrote this
       Ask me instead for a kiss...

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tales of the Iroquois twitter, afowl — partridge drumming hostile beats



5/30/2018

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My home on native land
I stole that from a T-shirt
Gotta give credit
Where credit is due 

Canada 'eh
Kanata
Iroquois for settlement or village
And here's where I slip in pillage
Pardon my digression
Subjugation segregation
And bad first impression

Gotta give credit where credit is due
I remember being proud of a beret in blue



2018.08.21

Composed for Brahn Bailey's
(your) Country 'tis of thee Poetry Contest...

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     ~ An Eight-Line Treatise on 'Settler Colonialism' ~

         The Apache beat up on the Cheyenne
           and the Iroquois on the Sioux

         Mohawks ‘mohawked’ the Mohicans
           Aztecs turned the Cree into stew … 

         Now Europeans are called ‘settler colonialists’
           but who does America really belong to

         Probably Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man
             ~ dispossessed by Indians too




        
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