No Protest No War!
...No War No Protest!
Colors of red, green, black, and white
spread on the east side of one campus
On the other a wave of white, and blue stars
A flock has gathered
The atmosphere seems peaceful...
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Categories:
tepees, courage, hope, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Grubbing
...Adjusting Appetizing Palates.
I have sampled the variety,
I am the one who has tasted life;
The one who has had a taste of life.
Rarely indulged in the main course-
Seldom a full meal-
I come h...
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Categories:
tepees, appreciation, food, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Quaint Flame
...Follow the flame of quaint yesteryears.
Turn on your mind and look around the room.
Imagine tepees, dirt floor cabins
speaking history of honeysuckle blooms.
See the Lakota do their Ghost D...
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Categories:
tepees, history, imagination, light,
Form: Quatrain
The Ancients
...It's my last day with the old giants
In mourning I hike the lost trails,
sniffing the aroma of the bark,
that cinnamon of the forest
Under tepees of wood
in a membrane of shadows,
I stalk...
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Categories:
tepees, addiction, adventure, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
The Ancients
...It's my last day with the old giants
In mourning I hike the lost trails,
sniffing the aroma of the bark,
that cinnamon of the forest
Under tepees of wood
in a membrane of shadows,
I stalk...
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Categories:
tepees, addiction, analogy, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Free verse
Nothing In Particular:
...In my room, there are many objects,
most of them collecting dust.
I have an array of books, some I've read,
and some I fear I never will.
There is a window I gaze out quite often.
The hills outs...
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Categories:
tepees,
Form: Narrative
I Wish I Weren'T a Bunny
...I WISH I WEREN’T A BUNNY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I never wanted to be a bunny, I’m not playing this game
I’d reconsider a puma: a lion with a frightening mane
But that’s not my fate, I’m a bunny,...
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Categories:
tepees, allegory, allusion, desire, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Round Or Square
...All in nature is round not square,
life moves in round cycles.
Planets, sun and moon are round
even the winds move in circles.
Yet we humans choose a square life
we sleep in square beds in squ...
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Categories:
tepees, life, nature,
Form: Verse
Soul Stance River - 12
...In the setting sun the Sioux Tepees look like vandalized pyramids,
the Tetons themselves appear as though angels raped
by the savagery of centuries yet noble in barbaric beauty and warrior ethos,
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Categories:
tepees, adventure,
Form: Epic
Squaw On the Warpath
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You wear your feathers proudly like a tribal chief.
However, the things you do cause your better half’s grief.
You gamble away the wampum that was meant for groceries.
That money can’t b...
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Categories:
tepees, marriage, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Red Plums Wild
...To preserve this day, I pick red plums wild
Within my soul, I dream a while
A vision ancient, to me smiles
Of plums growing wild in thickets dark
There for taking by man or lark
Beside running waters...
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Categories:
tepees, dream,
Form: Ballad
Nagi Tanka
...The following is a tribute to all Native Americans. Please check the footnotes for
unfamiliar words.
A lonely man riding a tashunke
Toward the anapo
Where the yellow-gowned prince
Rises majest...
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Categories:
tepees, death, life, loss, sad,
Form: I do not know?
The Past and the Present
...Chorus:
Hear the drums a beating,
Hear the bugels cry,
Hear the women weeping,
Hear the battle nigh.
Narration
The modern highway cuts through the hills,
While the trail road winds around....
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Categories:
tepees, passion, visionary, food,
Form: I do not know?