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The Calling Gull Of Aquinnah

...The calling gull leaves her nest
her wild magic cleaves the nimbus.
An avian aerialist suspended aloft 
she sails on tapered ribbons of cirrus silk,
ruffled sea breeze ironed ‘neath her lustrous ...

Categories: wampum, appreciation, growth, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse

Trading Brains

...He hardly had anything to say.
Many flocked to him
just to hear his no-wisdom.

I also have no-wisdom,
yet I fail constantly to employ it.
My silence is as good as yours,
but I will break it f...

Categories: wampum, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Dick Allen

...
With one mighty swing of your forty-two ounce bat,
out of the ballpark was where the baseball was at.
A great player blessed with athletic prowess,
you made the ball travel like a nonsto...

Categories: wampum, baseball, death of a
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Holder of the Heavens

...HOLDER OF THE HEAVENS

     religion of love —
the Holder of the Heavens
spurs unity and purpose

     the longhouse people
strong belief in afterlife
honored Spirit…lived good life
...

Categories: wampum, native american,
Form: Choka

The Quahog Clamshell

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

8/17/2018...

Categories: wampum, native american,
Form: Haiku

A Heart Made Hatchet -1

...I've never seen a baby so merry as Martha...
They say March newborns are bellwethers for blissful Springs Mary...
Hannah, Haverhill has been a hard place to call home
I'm sorry about Elizabeth's h...

Categories: wampum, america,
Form: Epic

Adventures End

...Adventure’s End

The journey brings back, strings of wampum. 
A belt telling stories, projecting memories.
Moments portrayed in coloured beads.
A summer’s experience, in southern Ontario,
they ...

Categories: wampum, family,
Form: Free verse

Squaw On the Warpath

...
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...

Categories: wampum, marriage, wife,
Form: Rhyme

Charlaxtitles11

...Inches make feet without inches there is no foot without beginnings there is no work without measure there is no dearth without a ruler there is no worth there must be rules and there are rules but e...

Categories: wampum, mystery, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry

Connie, Denise, and Cochise

...Amid 240 units of toil
Reigns my Connie
Where she walks
Is blessed soil

California sun
To match her hair,
No nature's beauty
Could compare

Sitting at a table,
With her friend Denise,
Mu...

Categories: wampum, adventure, fantasy, funny, history,
Form: Light Verse

Obviously

...OBVIOUSLY 
Obviously, the people who lived contemporary with dinosaurs were intelligent, 
and the footprints indicate that they were quite human as the large toe on 
primates is located closer to ...

Categories: wampum, funny, on work and
Form: Free verse

Pocahontas

...Is there anything to give you that you haven't had before?
all my wampum ,all my seashells,all my furs are on the floor

take these shiny pebbles with you ,they are rare and truly fine
I had kept...

Categories: wampum, lost love, native american,
Form: Couplet