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Best Shawnee Poems

Below are the all-time best Shawnee poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of shawnee poems written by PoetrySoup members


Shawnee Tavern
Henrietta
That's my father there
why pour him more liquor?...

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Categories: shawnee, childhood, drink,
Form: Questionku



Shawnee Vets
(for America’s original true Veterans)

Government of Kings
where shall you bide?
Now that the
Great Horned Serpent
has appeared while
Thunderbirds screech
and lament in
desolate skies?

Oh great people of
Our Grandmother!
Amass your...

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Categories: shawnee, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Things of the Heart
People sometimes tell me the heirlooms given to me hold no value over how my heart feels, but these things have memories, stories of where...

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Categories: shawnee, family, happy, memory, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Indigenous - the True American
Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate

Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the...

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Categories: shawnee, joy,
Form: Abecedarian
Native Remembrance Day
I would like to pay tribute to those who died
While introducing you to our native pride
We are Cherokee, Iroquois, and Lakota
We are Navajo, Algonquin, and...

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Categories: shawnee, america, native american, remember,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Abc
Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate

Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the...

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Categories: shawnee, native american,
Form: ABC
May They Live On
Mohawk, Mandan, Kikapu, Cree,
Yakoma,Seminole, Crow,Shawnee.
Arapaho, Chippewa and Sioux,
Mystical names to me and you.
Names like Delaware, Fox and Paiute,
Listen to their music on the flute.
Lakota, Macuna,...

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Categories: shawnee, america, discrimination, eulogy, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Anonymous Travelers
ANONYMOUS TRAVELERS

The luminous Southern Cross, had a clear blue sky as a background 
to shine off its splendor majestically in that long ago night. ...

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Categories: shawnee, anxiety,
Form: Light Verse
Panther Across the Sky
There was a fire in the sky,
The day Tecumseh fell.
No white man could deny,
They would know his cursed spell.

There was thunder in the spirit realm,
That...

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Categories: shawnee, anger, culture, history, magic,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Lady Liberty Still Stands Proud In New York Harbor
When did the arms of Lady Liberty turn inwards
Her torch extinguished; her poem long forgotten?
You have heard me say it often since begotten
That which makes...

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Categories: shawnee, america, history, language, new
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A David For David
A David for David (For the contest by that name.) First Place Entry.


Once the legend Davy Crocket
Put a turkey in his pocket
And it gobbled till...

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Categories: shawnee, adventure, funny, native american,
Form: Rhyme
The Stuff
the stuff legends are made of mysteries from the skies               ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shawnee, america, christian, jesus, journey,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Indian Simmer
There once was a sweet Shawnee squaw
Who left home and Ma and her Paw 
They had given her life
But he’d wanted a WIFE!
So she left...

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Categories: shawnee, adventure, animals, cowboy-western, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Licking River
Licking River, a tributary of the Muskingum in Ohio
It's a Shawnee word for “swampy ground” it ain't a typo
Bet you're glad you tuned in
Hope it...

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Categories: shawnee, history,
Form: Limerick
A Season's Dance
Bare,
Yet fair,
None can compare.
To the nude silver branches and barren expanses,
That the cool of winter doth bring.
Unless you equate the way the birds sing,
In the...

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Categories: shawnee, analogy, autumn, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

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