lost writhing stares unknown must brace the columns,

emitted pain Persepolis grasps so snug,

vague heights transcended, Xerxes grave yet fathoms

Ionic falcons dome Pirene...mists...air smug;

Prime pastures fertile, terramare, roll verve!

Pole Neolithic, Stone Age: Grace writhes bound:

Po Valley, Attica...to pinnacle nerve

Lush Villanova Anchors Lydian sound...

Revolving pearls shade Lorelei dim dive,

Emersing Lych-gate Amazon freeze live;

Titanic infrared beams ultraviolet:

Soar amaranth by Raven sunburst gauntlet!

In crimson shadows -- Eagle hex bleeds reed

Surrounding pyre, equestrian krones race lead

Melt brazen onyx sun aquamarine,

vast stronghold walls cascading diamonds mean;

Extending waves pave matchless booty vaults,

One solar lunar élan shakes...Nord halts,

Far emerald gaur stirs nectar rival'd fate,

Sunbursting cold by iron weights rotate

Until wrought rocks lose cobalt deepest light

Still eyes lynx ultraviolet Viking sight...

Where booty bounties vestige magnets pole

Horizon azure blocks marines expand;

Whose ombré embers tire in newborn soul;

to chateau drops of aqueous command;

fomenting shrining seas, dynamic cast

far hands dimensions cannot hope to grasp:

 

Anishinaabe's Blazing Past

Pure booms, true native wail, dense snares. . .must blast. . .

Bright 1Anishinaabe's waning echo - past;

Clear nature moans sheer bellows, . . . looms aghast --

Reverbing roots must vibrate spiring breath

As Anishinaabe bleeds her hallow'd past,

One bolt, 2Three Fires, mutes amber shibboleth;

The earthly core foments decay -- man's shame --

Where Chequamegon Bay does writhe its doom,

One cross expanse once Stoic reigns called lame,

Appeasing guise, ephemeral jaded gloom;

Uncanny rapture melts to dimmest haze;

foreboding waxen embers, Bull Run's flex,

Phase shaman's truth unblinde:  herbaceous maze;

Lake Winnipeg does bathe sun's ombré decks,

Illuminating clouds -- enraptured arms

Move native zooms, expand raw guise, dark charms. . .

La Fleur de Lis, celestial alms

Where Minnehaha's streaming water glows

As falling looms rhapsodic . . . totem - balms

Of legend, West's enigma, elk - musque - rose;

3Loon -  Crane - clan - Marten, spectral totems awe,

Refraining élan molting ground that moans;

Airs eerie  . . . wresting comets, rays' guffaw. . .

West Byzantine afar signs arch - loose - bones

disguised in rock those ambers heavens gorge. . .

West Avalon o'erpowers thund'rous falls;

Pure Minnehaha. . .grand trails . . . treading forge;

Her streams soothe falling dulcet - true dove - calls,

Illuminescent sonic booms’ snare - bleed --

Dim Anishinaabe's wailing seed . . .

 

1A word the Ojibwas use to denote the "Primal [or Original -- First] People"

2Referring to the alliance of the Ojibwas, the Ottawas, and the Potawatomis who originally migrated about the Northern Continent.

3The Crane clan (one of the 21 identifiable Ojibwa clans), the Marten and Loon being associated among the totems about the Chequamegon Bay.  [Reference:  Hoxie, Frederick E., Ed.,  Encyclopedia of North American Indians; © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company; 215 Park Avenue South; New York, New York 10003; also:  http://www.hmco.com/trade/.


 

As Minnehaha's unveil'd waters play. . .,

Bright Rays turn debacles to sombre sound;

As minotaur-like voices sought their prey,

They gall'd all native, primal man all 'round;

Impassion'd Chequamegon breathes afar

but fragments . . . hallow'd megis shells to Sea

-- like raiment. . .Petersburg gleams. . .Eastern Star

. . .Stills 4Missisagi, . . . reverbs timpani;

To turn therefrom, the  routes become, then, void --

As zephyrs furling samite banners bright,

once ombré pearls, native - skins' Three Fires, ployed. . .

Dire Tomahawk impasse, Infernal Might. . .

As shadows echo, Life begone must wail

The senses blind to one clear purest sail.

Auroral bolts nocturnal thunder booms,

As Anishinaabe vestige zooms. . .

All Laurels lush detect inspiring cries - - -

. . .That arrogance would smite Life True and meek!

Most fervent Mars must sense those upright sighs,

Pure Native Arms, defensive Might so weak.

Sole greed destroys by model - spark deceit;

Anishinaabe. . .wanes. . .of whitest trial!

--Cross'd nature's primal man stalls earth's defeat!

Pure martyrs:  sorcery . . . but haze . . . tries . . . vile!

Though Pontiac lost, his tribes must blaze their word;

Flaw'd models shroud hands True that Three Fires bled;

Now thund'rous Laurels -- beams that they yet gird

Acropolis ebullient mindful bread . . .

Pure booms, true native looms dense snares. . .blast . . . light

Of Anishinaabe's waning echo bright.

Confineless spaces, ceasing chasms bear,

untether yet true Heart so White, pure musque,

delaying ne'er chanson pacific air,

As rustic falcons crest like mace-raw-amber,

Grand vibrant antelope . . . rise musque, e'er dusk. . .


4Referring to the eastern Ojibwas of the domain about southern Lake Ontario.


Lest guards of Pontiac exceed death's stare,

relentless battles, rising statuesque

defend against black voiding pits, brute share,

until, alas!  these struggles Romanesque

defy all ghastly arms, sly craven lair . . .

As rustic falcons crest like mace-raw-amber . . .

Arise! Pearl - eagle, totem - steam, Mum - white

Atlantic another Atlantis plays,

its wrest like 5Aeneid, empowering maze!

'But wooden, Trojan horse did flee pyre - fright,

Raw ashes, Trojan embers trace West Might

--pre - Pure Hellene yet roots Masked slur-Crypt daze --

Wings East, schisms West -- defy Bull Run's delight!

to mesmerize moon fury Saturn's phase

. . .Orb Pontiac rainbow - sun, prism - totem plight. . .

Reviving Indigo its legends plays

Founts streaming pasteurs, volting 'cross Pompeii's

Volcanic clay, minosa's lured insight!

Spire jamborees Byzantium's onyx light . . .

Now, stirring falcons crest in wreaths of praise;

Fright Pontiac girds by Zeus -- sparks pasteur earth

As marks revolve about Round  - Table . . . Mirth;

dark whirling, 6Saulteaux hands are fleeing birth. . .

As Byzantine Arcs dome ethereal climb,

celestial - zoned meridians stare morgues' chime. . .

Pure booms, true native flails, dense snares loom blast

Bright Anishinaabe's waning echo - past

What martyred hands. . .e'er babes of tyrant wrath. . .

What Chippewa7 hiatus, . . . canny melts. . .

Ellipse of time, deep diamond pits. . .musk - path. . .


5Referring to Vergil's epic, an account of the fall of Troy.

 6Another original French expression used to denote the Ojibwas (also of French origin, an older term, its usage preceeding the  French and Indian War [1754 - 60]).

 

7Referring to the Ojibwas, a form (albeit corrupted)  yet used by U.S. government organizations today,  recognizing the tribal

structures.


As Sioux - Saulteaux, collapsing asp-like pelts . . .

Old Bridge expires.  .  . enigma's airs long lost

Iniquities by centuries ago,

sly tempest, earth's deep core enflames Soul - Sage,

five hundred years crossed land - expanse does cost!

Dark Spirits' genocide past years did sow,

Beam'd apse, panes molting jaded totem page!

Bay Élan's Sioux who yields to Nature's Wrest,

Soft zephyrs balm resplendent . . . heather charms;

Nomadic fields spire hazel, pheasant nest --

Exotic black hawk, Nature's lushest farms;

Revive Saulteaux - Sioux savory, sage - sense wrench,

Enchanting Spirit totems' apse - sky - sheet;

like balmy Eastern shaman shawms' veil'd quench;

Yet earth, Maternal Depths bear barren fleet!

Enrapture primal fragrant - sense demesne!

Grace boundless, Élan's plight alights Plains Bright;

Fair Shawnee Knights fair Anishinnaabe's flair

Like Byzantine domes, hallowed totem - keen,

Printemps. . .sense d'autre fois, Euphoric Light . . .

whole models' flux . . . melismic . . .  zephyrs . . .  fair.

A hallowed micro - macrocosmic fort

Bays Chequamegon Indigo veiled Shrine,

Illuminating stigmata Divine,

Dimensions weightless, solar, lunar . . . court. . .

Merge infrared - dawn - ultraviolet airs

That crosier, amber'd staff -- shaped branches please

-- Brocade, gilt Jacobean immort'ls appease,

Plaits spun vermeil, chinoiserie East dares!

. . . Foam -- chlamys Cherokee - charmeusse unfurls

craped Avalon, fringed scarlet Pocahontus' biers

Elapsing jacquard, funeral - fire . . . vast pyres . . .

About this garrison of Caesar. . . whirls

 

Through all glum lychgate garland . . . vineyards toll,

These totems, sacred megis, must rouse dole.

Pure Anishinaabe vibing Trailing Tears, behold;

Hail'd shawms bless Marco Polo, youthful swell,

-- Sublime tears, Western Light wanes . . . arching fold,

Like Roland's Durendal bright to which fell

beam'd sacred fragments, . . . the Madonna's stole;

That Colonnade, carved sculpture totem pares

the lone piazza bear . . . to ne'er be whole

Lest essence tremulous transcends the stairs

-- Most lofty forms mid arches rise ornate!

. . . About these aster - altars, Gothic signs --

Flames . . . Anishinaabe's . . . eerie hallowed fate,

imbues Ojibwas ombré shells, cross'd lines

. . . All Dorian, Hebrew, Teuton scribes do flaire. . .

As élan wakens totems' polars bare . . .,

Pervade the sense of time, rear rouge - skin powers,

awe - Malmsey, rare Frangelican -- Monks' gold . . .

As cyclops o'er Gibraltar, Atlas, towers!

Crisscrossing altars light to blazon - cold. . .

Before this crucifix, yet the garrison . . .

of Caesar . . . consecrated draught, blood rolls

Intractable clamor . . . silent-prison-Sun. . .

Glum Calvary.  . . the Eucharist Watch tolls. . .

Airs vaulted zenith -- Pontiac's fatal shrine

. . . all tumult -- trailing such Dynamic blast. . .

rays infrared glow ultra-violet shine,

as Mount Alverno, nature's vexing mast,

combusting arch to Psyche . . . bursting. . . scorch

Exploding wondrous beams! . . .stigmata's torch. . .

As classic canons spare pure Love unmarred,

All gestures failing, rising dove-born score,

Adventured lamps. . .all miscreant, . . . a shard!

Unite, scroll'd fragment, . . . order’d leaves ashore

 

 

--As fortifying lions, bobcat roars,

. . .Untainting Western Might dares flee and run,

. . . As Minnehaha's beam'd founts tame . . . grounds' ore

by Ganymede's rays, amber'd ombré sun--

Undaunted legend, oldest chagrin'd one--

Accepts prismatic rules, . . . Ethereal Rose!

For signals . . . mystifying memoirs won

No Hiawatha faint earth - arm'd repose!

As shifting earth routs shaking doom. . ., alarms,

Glum ruins, forceless dulcet nature charms. . .

Grand megis shells . . . wood . . . cross illuminate

Beyond the fervent, vast o'erpow'ring sea!

Command the totem . . . dire . . . root - cruise. . .reins-plea. . .

The frozen toll, lost helm does penetrate . . .

The keel. . .enshrining, guilding . . . toga - dawn,

Gleams life anew beyond besieging storms:

The holocaust must seethe to pallid forms;

The helmsman's rig creates new ebbing spawn

Auroral zenith-boom, engrasping flow

To Anishinaabe, sounding airs that guard steadfast;

The yarding élan only breaks to sow

Yet lives afresh when megis beams can't last.

What Leaves Omniscient guard our earthly shrouds,

Subduing wonder, galvanizing clouds . . .

 

Such marvel, awe - standstill, rends all about,

maintaining firm, élan’s breath, fervence true

-- clean musk, new jade stones, horn - of - plenty . . . sprout --

emitting, rustling . . . foils . . . suspending through

Vast cynic way as calibers strike hard;

 cost Anishinaabe his hallowed Wild rapport

-- His plight, expanding age, his sole Gold Card;

One native Pure liaison, clear vital corps

like diamond strength, minds' mediating part,

Gasps Ojibwa, rare Mississauga, Sioux,

 

 

Alliance Grand, essential land takes heart

as ores - a - plenty, bare . . . alas . . . cast rue. . .

Dawn - twilight volts, ethereal thunder looms

to colisseum fragments, spiring musque perfumes . . .

As Anishinaabe - vestige booms. . .

fomenting frothing waters, . . . lunar zooms

dust - camphor, souveniring harvest - quest,

Response to nature's whim, uncanny bands

that raiment, chlamys - sky, translucent hands

. . .  guard élan, vernal natural arrest

. . .Resuscitate with vital signs, sage - zest

to brazen heiroglyphics, ancient sands:

One ardent footfall, Sioux does link Sault lands,

Pacific - cross - Atlantic, eagles’ nest,

All baying chamomille mused hallowed spring,

that fennel, hyssops, tree of tea yet field

by fertile soil -- to poppies, heathered sheaths,

sky - paring fan -- grain - chaff dividing, bring

One Altar Sacred -- Taurus' stars -- revealed

Form'd rays, Atlantic's primal arching wreaths;

Melt twilight volts equinoctial veined rays

To Anishinaabe's sailing echo brays. . .

 

As Chequamegon, veiling Bay yet plays

booms Ojibwa, fragmenting primal cause,

man’s tune with nature, solar - lunar rays,

create no earthen polar - axes’ flaws. . .

Airs balming . . . Petersburg gleams . . . East - West star

as broken trails lost megis shells did guide

. . . to sea, now hazed . . . bleak stars . . . must guide . . . afar --

Three Fires yet grieves . . . corruption vastly wide

Where earthly depths, expiring sources, lapse

to faultless orbits, unimpaired response . . .

These lunar, solar orbs retire their apse,

resources . . . try . . . ecology . . . undaunts

as ores essential . . . bare, . . . alas . . . cast rue . . .

auroral dusk . . . euphoric vestige - crew.

 

Lost myths, dire Petersburg star, glow meek blue?

Faint Anishinaabe resounds with natures' beats,

Raw rhythms -- atmospheric tempest true,

Untamed reverbs, nostalgic bonds gleam feats . . .

Inciting native zeal, samite appeal,

. . . Cries bounding . . . Chickamauga's inborn soul

. . . Raw fauna, flora . . . , Spirits vast reveal

United taming, . . . questing trace must roll

Cascading fields, appeasing brooks . . . allay,

Emerging joy and fervent cheer, élan's prayer,

essential spirit, nature's alms, grand Ray . . .

Resilient, earnest, . . . journeys mourn and bear

majestic reins like youthful, vernal bands . . .

coronas . . . beam'd . . . Three Fires' past, aiding hands . . .

 

Impassioned Battle, Crater's massive rage!

O'erpow'ring turmoil, wrathing warriors' part;

Sunk'n horrid chasms defy enigma - page;

Renew’d with solar light, sunk'n depths recant . . .

Beneath high Petersberg . . . of primal stars

grim succumb'd . . . astral flames . . . debris, hazed wit --

Anishinaabe's loss, e'er Shiloh's mars

to play but mute, true taming Savage split,

Resounds undying Spirits' golden goad;

Attempts but brute defy true Nature's heed,

. . . one symbolizing flee . . . yields Quaker's Road

-- Illuminates in vict'ry -- to ne'er secede;

The wailing drums pulse Ojibwas' cry,

Defeatless doves yet soaring . . . e'er to die . . .

 

Anishinaabe's waters beam, . . . recant,

Rays brilliant turning haze its sombre bay;

They writhe but blinde earth's warrior chant

As cynic calibers o'erpow'r their prey;

By model spark'd controls, sole greed-deceit,

. . . Anishinaabe . . . waning . . . whitest trial;

-- Cross'd nature's primal skins stall'd earth's defeat,

Pure martyrs questing infinite, true mile;

Pure booms, pure nature wails, guffawing blast . . .

Auroral bolts, dusk - twilights' thunder loom

Anishinaabes’ cries, waning echo - past,

of primal flex, pure fauna, flora, . . . gloom,

As vibrant antelope crest like earth's amber

To Pontiac, guards exceeding blazed ember.

true drums, pure native booms, dense snares . . . chants . . . zoom,

. . . Anishinaabe's waning echos . . . loom

Past sacred megis, odyssey now ember'd --

Saskatchewan breathes nature's staff sensed doom;

Montana -- Chippewa sighs glyphs but weather'd

sly cannons, calibers, to e'er exhume . . .

 

like Nubian Tombs -- entranced "lost" slaves -- deaths' chant,

Enmassing Ojibwa, but helpless prey of despots

Expanding homes, but for their own cares grant

Extant void reason burst by arms of bigots;

All's barren, void, remiss . . . sly hands vile . . . hex!

Resources, . . . all the earth is hazed . . . to dearth,

defied by modern tomahawks' brute vex,

foul greed denies pure global vital girth . . .

true snares, pure native drums, dense booms . . . chant . . . airs,

. . . resound Anishinaabe's waning echo - lairs. . .  

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