History Warrior Poems

His mind lay prey to mumbled threats within,
drawn to perch upon a twig-thin edge 
slung between a gauze of blatant dreams.
Like some homeless bird come...

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[paraphrase of a Svan folksong]


I, I am Queen Tamar
I raised myself to Heaven
I dug up a barren mountain
I left only a deep hole
I put the...

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Every wrinkle tells a story,
In his frail old hands,
A lifetime of battles,
As he walked this land. 
Behind his tired eyes,
Secrets are hidden away,
Memories of conflicts...

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You are my empty page of love 
my double spaced sheet of solid white 
you are my blank canvass 
my heavenly shade of metal alloy...

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D  irections of our lives seem futile and our hearts obstructed.
E  very person, every woman, every child, every
M  an has lost the...

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Aurang Zaib Alamgeer
Have you forgot Queen Tarabai?
A woman who fought defensive battles against you
Do you remember her swinging sword?
How can you forget that violent clash
When...

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I am dipped in burnt sage
smudged with black skin
Choctaw infused in my DNA
Creole seasoning the roux 
in my bloodline
I slow simmer
for I am daughter of
strong...

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The Ancient Viking Warrior In His Old Age, 
A Collaboration With Vladislav Raven

Part (1.)

Biding his time, as each day wrangles its hours away
his soul resting...

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"A drum beats within me of my Ojibwe spirit ancestors.
It echoes in the forest and above in the azure sky and down flutters
an eagle feather...

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Dear Humanitarian Poet, 
Do  not weave your fabric of myth
or speak to us in grand verse
telling of the song of the spheres
or the days...

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THE SATIRIC
        WARRIOR
Let us sing a song for a hero
The warrior from satiric battles so
.
With a well balanced...

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Warrior Wombs
(for Sandy and the loss of our first grandson)
By Joyce Teed
2/8/17

Warrior Wombs
Every woman
Has an untold story
A secret
Untold
Or unseen
Her story
Includes
Silent sorrows
Wounds with no words
Winding through...

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She has the halo of the martyr.
 She saved her nation and the Crown –
 a warrior soul,
 though only a child.
 
She commanded the...

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Which is it: you can't get started unless
you're riding some current bigger than your reporting voice
or the best time to write is when you don't...

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With nimble-fingers braids the midnighter mare                   ...

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