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Subject: CRAZY HORSE (OGLALA SIOUX CHIEF)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CRAZY HORSE DREAMS (1), by SHERMAN ALEXIE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She tried to stand close to him at the fry bread stand, but he moved from open
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE DREAMS (1), by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She tried to stand close to him at the fry bread stand, but he moved from open
Last Line: For hours, he watched the lights go on and off, on and %off.He wished he was crazy horse
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE DREAMS (2), by SHERMAN ALEXIE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the checks came in, seymour and I
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE DREAMS (2), by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the checks came in, seymour and I
Last Line: And I counted the money, gave seymour the ten bucks %for his last stand, his last chance to be crazy
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE MONUMENT, by PETER BLUE CLOUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hailstones falling like sharp blue sky chips
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


CRAZY HORSE RETURNS TO SOUTH DAKOTA, by HARLEY ELLIOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: No photographs exist. This man %comes to us unrecorded
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 2, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little big horn / little big horn does not belong to me
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 3, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wear the color of my skin
Last Line: In this city where everyone / is afraid of horses?
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Horses; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 4, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are places I cannot leave
Last Line: The exact skin/ never the same home
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief); Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 5, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the mirror
Last Line: It is the sound / of glass shattering
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 6, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the verdict
Last Line: Mortal and sinless
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 7, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever it all begins again
Last Line: I will be waiting
Subject(s): Etethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE; THE LAST MORNING, by LANCE HENSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dawn %rose like a hand at the edge of dark
Last Line: Hollow %wind
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


DEATH OF CRAZY HORSE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hills where the hoop
Last Line: As I enter the actual world
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


REPORT TO CRAZY HORSE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the sioux were defeated. Our clan
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Native Americans - Wars


REPORT TO CRAZY HORSE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the sioux were defeated. Our clan
Last Line: I run my hand along those old grooves in the rock
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Native Americans - Wars


THE DEATH OF CRAZY HORSE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hills where the hoop
Last Line: As I enter the actual world
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


THE DEATH OF CRAZY HORSE, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now 'twas done
Last Line: These many grasses and these many snows.
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


THE MESSAGE OF CRAZY HORSE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would sit in the center of the world,
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


UNTITLED, by LANCE HENSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crazy horse and snake on bear butte
Last Line: This night I hold my hands out to you
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


WILDWEST, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were none of my blood in this battle
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


YOU CAN START THE POETRY NOW, OR: NEWS FROM CRAZY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I guess all I'm trying to say is I saw crazy horse die for
Last Line: Start the poetry!! Start the poetry now!!
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Irony; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America