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Subject: OSAGE INDIANS Matches Found: 42 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUNT JEWELL AS POWWOW PRINCESS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was aghast at what I saw Last Line: Came down as a heavy rain Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Variant Title(s): Aunt Jewell At Cahokia Mound Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians BEHIND THE HILL, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember that afternoon when we first came to the place Last Line: Crawled out on a rock, on the other side, and lay there quiet in the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians BIRCH CANOE, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Red men embraced my body's whiteness Last Line: At home in the fish's fallen heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Identity; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The '49 dawn set me high on a roaring yellow tractor Last Line: Being ground up with it, then or now Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Variant Title(s): In Kansa Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear walt, %well, that was some weekend. Can't see why janey bell Last Line: P.S. There's a note for janey bell enclosed. %don't open it Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We of the osage nation have come Last Line: Gold and violet its humongous word, %vacancy, vacancy, %up to the dancing stars Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians COMMUNING BEFORE SUPERMARKETS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: -it's probably because we were always trying Last Line: Turns into food for all %the different beings in their times Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians DANCING WITH DINOSAURS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before we came to earth, %before the birds had come Last Line: Now they will sing and we %are dancing with them, here Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians DE GUSTIBUS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To skin a skunk, skill is needed Last Line: But even fried few will eat it Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Recessions; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete Last Line: He flies so easy, when he sings Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians EL SALVADOR!, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Paralyzed children staring %into the pulitzer prizes of our televising selves Last Line: We look into and try to comprehend Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians FORMING CHILD POEMS: SEVEN, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Near the summit, se of kinlichee Last Line: Why I decided to leave it like that Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians FREE WHITE AND FIFTEEN, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the bullet hit, the horse keeled over dead Last Line: We'd be at work next morning, cleaning kennels Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians GETTING ACROSS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging %out under the bridge Last Line: Where he has passed his death Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians GIVEN, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This world to grow into, I know Last Line: Glittering darkness that has no end Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians GREYHOUND COURSING TRIALS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Osage was coursing against this fawn greyhound Last Line: Won it!' till he saw, as I turned, the ruined foot Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians INDIAN COUNTRY: THAT DARK ROMANTIC CHASM, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They came from england, sweden, france, 'america' Last Line: A gentle earth, %with flowers %yet once more Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians JETLINER FROM ANGEL CITY, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earthborn of white %titanium sand in magnesium shell from Last Line: Your silver dove returning to the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians LIQUID CRYSTAL THOUGHTS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Looking through windshields at sixty-three Last Line: All venice, titian's colors and the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Aging; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Vision LOOKING BEFORE AND AFTER, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the new pond-dam a trickle Last Line: Butterfly of shadows tastes %sweet light again Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians MAKING A NAME, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The authors of this story are Last Line: With real live indians, this time? Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians MY RIGHT HAND DON'T LEAVE ME NO MORE, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you were drunk, you could always whip joe louis Last Line: And did not help. You died bringing in wood for the fire Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians ON THE PLANET OF BLUE-EYED CATS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some moons of jupiter are %as big as earth almost Last Line: To move, to learn a little of %what beings mean Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians PAINT AND FEATHERS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Into a star %you have cast yourself Last Line: To where we hear you laughing Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians PARADING WITH THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apache, omaha, osage, choctaw, comanche, cherokee, oglala, micmac Last Line: Absence of buffalo here in the %gateway to the west, st louis Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Variant Title(s): Parading With The V.f.w Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Depressions, Economic; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians PURE COUNTRY, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pick and shovel dug the privy-hole square Last Line: And we moved the privy on out %above its new-dug hole Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians SKINS AS OLD TESTAMENT, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder who first slid in %to use another creature's skin Last Line: Within the woman %came alive Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians SONG THAT WE STILL SING, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the way from oklahoma up to the sun dance Last Line: We recognized that song. It's one %that we still sing Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians SONGS OF THE WINE-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the sapphire ocean Last Line: The hummingbird's, the humpback whales, %a neutron star, a human soul? Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Hummingbirds; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians SPIRITUALITY 101: SNAKEROOT, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Used to pick the dead coneflowers Last Line: In our suburbs is ever used for medicine Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians SPIRITUALITY 102: CAKES AND ALE, BREAD AND WINE, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cakes and ale, bread and wine Last Line: Many thanks, and the bookstore's thataway.' Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE DOG, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night before my uncle carter got shot Last Line: He would have made a perfect suburban mayor - %or maybe, manager for some liquor chain Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Uncles SWAN'S SONG, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Garbed in silence I go on earth Last Line: The world's wide waters, as a wayfaring soul Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians THAT LIGHTNING'S HARD TO CLIMB, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: - struck down? %good lord, we'd always be Last Line: Now mantle where the %living tree once stood Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians TO THE MUSE, IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That aganippe well was nice, it hit the spot Last Line: Drink from our bare skin: %good water %fits every mouth Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians TRINITY-RIDDLE, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I spread, descending a samite of stars Last Line: To wear till dawn night-diamonds, till dusk the jewel of time Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians WALKING WITH FRIENDS DOWN LARIGILL AND DIBADAL, ON THE ISLE OF SKYE, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Coming down from the watershed's pools %we drank first at the source Last Line: Back into the heart %of sunlight and falling rain Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians WAZHAZHE GRANDMOTHER, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They chose their allotted land Last Line: To live in their first home Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Variant Title(s): They Chose Their Allotted Lan Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians WE WERE SEVEN, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: #name? Last Line: I keep close watch on all the trees we have Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians WHERE THE MUSES HAUNT, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Atop the opera garnier in paris there's Last Line: Went on with their gathering from the pale blue %rosemary and from thyme Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians WINNING THE DUST BOWL, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a reaching up %into the dusty leaves after Last Line: And there are many friends of the huntington who surely do Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Food And Eating; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Survival |
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