Archive | June, 2009

Nellie Gray

When I was just a little kid, In years all flown away- I learned a little Darkie Song- They called it Nelllie Gray And I have played it all my life- Since that golden time- And every fidddle that I had- Sang this old song of mine! “When the moon has climbed the Mountains” Seemed [...]

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Last Night of Seventeen

I first called this poem “Yound Days” But one night when I swept the school house out I found this on her tablet written before she left fifty years ago Last Night of Seventeen So take it for the Title She wrote the name for my poem fifty years ago When prairie winds blow as [...]

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To Hannah…..first poem……

I was so sorry when Hanna died- Wife said that night, I cried and cried- And then next morning walked and found A sky blue feather, on the ground! I keep it here, for her, and we Are ONE again…..in Memorie! Because the road was steep and long- And through a dark and lonely land- [...]

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Memories of Summer

My brother J.O. Christianson left home at seventeen, went to Minneapolis. He went to St. Paul Farm school college for forty years and with the superintendent for thirty years. Was Knighted by the King of Sweden for starting the foreign student exchange. John had been out here at HOME, in Dakota, and head seen the [...]

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When J.O. superintendant left home at seventeen.

I never see John anymore- The yeras have come between- He left for Minnesota In the fall of Seventeen- An’ then we both got married, An’ the years have skipped away- Since we were little boys at Home A Fiddleing “Nellie Gray”! The wind was blowing the prairie grass- Both of us boys were poor- [...]

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