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    Arrowheads and Darkeyes
    Arrowheads and Darkeyes
    Arrowheads and Darkeyes
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    Arrowheads and Darkeyes

    By Charles Ray

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    Charles Ray's poems and novels often reflect his Scotch-Irish and Cherokee heritage, his use of both the past and the contemporary, and his deep respect ad personal connectedness to the natural. He has been reluctantly employed as a college professor, high school

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherURLink Print & Media, LLC
    Release dateApr 25, 2024
    ISBN9781684864997
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      Arrowheads and Darkeyes - Charles Ray

      ARROWHEADS

      AND

      DARKEYES

      CHARLES RAY

      Arrowheads and Darkeyes

      Copyright © 2023 by Charles Ray. All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any way by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the author except as provided by USA copyright law.

      The opinions expressed by the author are not necessarily those of URLink Print and Media.

      1603 Capitol Ave., Suite 310 Cheyenne, Wyoming USA 82001

      1-888-980-6523 | admin@urlinkpublishing.com

      URLink Print and Media is committed to excellence in the publishing industry.

      Book design copyright © 2023 by URLink Print and Media. All rights reserved.

      Published in the United States of America

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2023915947

      ISBN 978-1-68486-613-7 (Paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-68486-498-0 (Hardback)

      ISBN 978-1-68486-499-7 (Digital)

      21.08.23

      CONTENTS

      Part I Arrowhead Pieces

      American Legion 1492

      DESOTO Among the Cherokee

      The Soliloquy of Pocahontas in London

      Virginia Dare In Eden

      Two Hunters

      He is/was Daniel BOONE

      Soliloquy of Sequoia

      Tsali Sacrifice

      The Soliloquy of Buffalo Bill’s Half-Breed Skinner

      Cherokee grandfather versus legend of sleepy chestnut

      Cherokee Café

      The Sequoia General Autobiography

      Homage to Black Elk

      South Trout

      Sequoia-Semantic Hang-Up

      Cherokee Import Ghetto

      Chattooga River Movie

      Blue-Monday

      Peep Sights

      Milepost 100, Glenallen Highway

      Aleut Lady, New Style

      Milepost 620, The Alaska Highway

      Imagine You

      With Reverent Thought of Boone & Crockett

      Indian Bacchanal Highway

      Milepost 1523, Alaskan Highway, Fairbanks, Cushman Street

      Discover Carolina

      Cushman Street, Fairbanks

      Ode to Development

      First Baptist Church, Anchorage

      Indian-style

      The Tiny Golden Girl

      Three Haikus

      A Rose is a Rose is a General Patton

      Doe Day

      An Expletive and a Contraction and God

      The Cowboys of the Northern World

      The Buffalo Hunter

      Milepost 1118, the Alaskan Highway

      Part II The Dark Eyes Poems

      When

      once

      Conjugation

      poem to dark eyes x-plaining x-cuse for poetry

      Sonnet I

      Sonnet II

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