Bold Warrior <br />Of the Setting Sun <br />Stands on the Rock of Imprisoned Time <br />The stony features of his darkened face <br />Ask no pity <br />Claim no piety <br />But iron eyes remember: <br />Burning lodges on a blood-red river <br />Broken arrow on Sacred Earth despoiled <br />A riderless pony gallops into blackness <br />And is seen no more <br />For screaming children <br />Slaughtered wives <br />The Eagle cries for Justice <br />And there is none <br />In a heartless land <br />But shallow men <br />Dig shallow graves <br />And in the gleaming of Long Awaited Moon <br />Lone Palomino return from Midnight Pasture <br />And the Fallen Ride Again. <br /> <br /> <br />(First electronically published in This Hard Wind, by EWGPresents, Vol.4, No.5, May '00)<br /><br />Laurence Overmire<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/man-called-thunder/
