Short Settlers Poems

Early settlers loved it
 Easily concocted
 Eggs, milk, mixed with sugar
 Enhanced by some fine rum
 Elixir of yuletide
 Egged on by brews of nog -
 Enjoy Christmas parties!
                      -
 12/18/16...

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Spiritual beings
Caretakers of land
Legends and stories
Lovers of children
Saviors of settlers

United States
Cherokee nation
The Paute Tribe
Crow and Lakota

Apache
Wyandotte
Mohaw tribe

Native
People

Home...

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earth settles
baby settles down
we settle our estate

settlers were risk takers
taking few belongings 
wives taken from comfort of parents’ homes

risk everything
risk nothing
risk a game in the sixties

everything granted
grant’s tomb visited
grant me a wish

wishing love toward our planet
wishing pandemic would settle down
earth settles...

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there is a record of January 12th, 1888
a day that could remain sad forever
great plains blizzard swept across the valleys
entering the school houses and homes of the settlers
two hundred and thirteen children perished on that day
a blizzard that will always be known as the children’s blizzard
January 12th, 1888, a day of sadness for so many mothers and fathers...

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Wagons packed, gunny sacked

                                  Wheat flour, beans, preserves

                        Wild nature sojourning

                              Worn axles, oxen, health

             Winter weather challenge

                       Wealth aspiring visions

     Wonder-filled golden hills


5-10-2021
Plieades W Contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman...

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Finally, on day 35 of the war, the noble West passed a UN resolution calling for humanitarian pause, so the stricken Gazan can use the corridor to their next 'great exile'!
North Gaza is now primed for new settlers, and soon they'll extend their reach to the whole strip they call Azaz.  It means to be strong and that's the spirit of Gaza today!
Gaza is now a monument to religion's folly....

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                                          Gatherer of Herbs
                           Storer of tree limbs, leaves, shrubs, love
                                         His cures a free gift
                 
                                         Gift of his knowledge 
                                         Free to early settlers
                                         Pharmacies use now...

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Two liners
He sat on a square stone under an olive tree
contemplating his afterlife.

What if he came back as a donkey in Sudan?
Or dromedary in Sahara.

He could become a dog like the one at his feet,
The dog looked up, wagged its tail slowly.

Pondering this he came to the conclusion
He wanted to be a long-lived olive tree.

The olive tree in Portugal, if in Palestine he risked
Being set aflame by settlers...

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Lord only knows how the settlers survived
When in Arizona's desert they arrived

I visited there in late November
And the piercing heat I still remember

Air conditioning's great invention
Brought to this state renewed attention

The population grew by leaps and bounds
Many homes were built on the sandy mounds

"There's no humidity," some still will say
Yet none survive without AC each day



(AC stands for air conditioning)...

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Great American adventure
over the plains alone
loved ones wait and wonder
where we might have gone
  charting unknown waters
to brave the starless nights
we brought our sons
and daughters
we kept our dreams in sight
all in this together
we'll get there and we'll thrive
no matter what the weather
Americans alive!
so build the campfire high
tonight
and sing a settler's song
we'll keep the wilderness at bay
till you can come along....

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Waves of blue extend as far as the eye can see
raising high above the leafless treetops I dwell
a turquoise statue rests in the parkway
broken kneecaps and fingers but I don't know who
is attributed this honor dressed in flags of red
I close my eyes and imagine the battle scar
at Fort Sheridan where settlers dreams came true
A black bird glides down upon this glory
the sun starts shining through the clouds
and my thoughts wander to visions of you...

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Bunyip

Early settlers heard its screams
Lurking in billabongs, creeks and streams
A myth or real that question remains
Indigenous folklore further explains

Perhaps a cultural memory of an animal extinct
Though the image of the Bunyip for them is distinct
Bones and skulls have been found over the years
Attributed to the Bunyip, adding to their fears

The tales of the creature weave a story so seeming
Its belief and existence a feature of The Dreaming...

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Where settlers came in search of gold,

they found instead a golden grove.

Trees burst with fruit, for sun is bold

where settlers came in search of gold.

No precious ore, but wealth untold;

rich landscape is the treasure trove!

Where settlers came in search of gold,

they found instead a golden grove.


Inspired by Robert Butler's "Golden Grove"
Written March 5, 2015, for the Florida Nature Contest of Rhonda Johnson-Saunders...

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The stench of death permeates the air, filled with sound of bomb explosions and
occasional siren of ambulances; the Israeli flyers ordering mass evacuation litter the ground; they are good for a poor writer's research notes, on the limits of human barbarism.
The right-wing Jews now talk of settlers' return, and the mask has fallen.  Soon the apocalypse will be replaced by a new Gaza, bereft of any Palestinian traces, sufficient cause to continue the mayhem without a pause....

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Random  Intifada
the enemy can be anyone walking
the streets. The Israelis are nervous 
power alone cannot stop this there is
two Israel one for the European elite
and one for the poorer class who feel
betrayed by their leaders and fanatical
settlers, low wages hovering just about
poverty, alas we do not hear from them
and their isolation in a sea of hatred 
and they have nowhere to go should hell
break lose other trying to be friends or
find an adaptation with the Palestinians....

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To wander life, an aimless fellow
Under sunlight, bright and yellow,
Walking roads and rough terrain
May seem to settlers quite insane.

To have a home and plot of land,
A friendly neighbors helping hand,
And happy tales of family lore
The wanderer would find a bore.

A settler and a wanderer sit down to have a chat,
Each asking of the other guy, "How could you live like that?"
The settler prays the wanderer will someday realize,
Yet over the horizon, the wanderers heart lies....

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