I contrasted here the dichotomy of the rationalization that winning the west was our nation's "Manifest Destiny."

Crazy Horse was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by white American settlers on Native American territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles of the American Indian Wars on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman Fight in 1866 in which he acted as a decoy and the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 in which he led a war party to victory, earned him great respect from both his enemies and his own people. Source: Wikipedia.

This poem is a Sapphonic Triad.
This form is an invention of our own Cliverde (Carol) and Pantygynt (Jim).
The form is as follows:

- A two-line quotation (Free verse but the max total of sixteen syllables
must be concise and memorable)

- followed by a quatrain, four lines each of four syllables

- finally an 8-4-6 syllable envoi that moves us on somewhere...it should have a "satori" feeling.


- You can use rhyme if you want.


The picture is of the Crazy Horse Monument in South Dakota.

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