The Once Great Plains

Black Buzz News Service
Special Report
January 23, 2010
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

Blogger Black Buzz's poem titled, "THE ONCE GREAT PLAINS," is about the once great majestic, plentiful, fruitful and picturesque plains of the United States of America before the invasion and conquest by European settlers who were not desirous of sharing the land called America with the proud indigenous natives.


                          THE ONCE GREAT PLAINS


               INVIGORATING TALL GRASS,
              SCINTILLATING SMELL OF SASSAFRAS

             JACK RABBITS HOPPING JOYFULLY,
             WHITE TAILS MOVING SWIFTLY

            THE STOMPING OF  OBSTREPEROUS BUFFALO,
            LITTLE PRAIRIE DOGS DIGGING BELOW

            USE TO ROAM THESE GREAT PLAINS
            LONG BEFORE THE ACID RAIN,

           MINERS, SETTLERS, BLUE COATS AND WAGON TRAINS.

           By Ronald B. Saunders
          January 4, 2000