Cherokees Poems - Poems about Cherokees

...Doris was an unhappy girl; her stepfather was stern. Her mother never stood up for her, no matter what. She did not like herself when the Cherokees grabbed her. But they showed her a new way and r......Read the rest...

...When Pigs Fly by Michael R. Burch On the Trail of Tears, my Cherokee brothers, why hang your heads? Why shame your mothers? Laugh wildly instead! We will soon be dead. When we lie in our ......Read the rest...

...Erasure Poem So many fake Indians these days Elizabeth Warren is one And according to my DNA results I am too But my grand-parents spoke Cherokee my mom claims And they disappeared into the ......Read the rest...

...“They took the whole Cherokee nation Put us on this reservation Took away our ways of life The tomahawk and the bow and knife” From “Indian Reservation” by Paul Revere and the Raiders ......Read the rest...

...Well I am called Captain Owl Talons and my ship is called the phantom dragon I carry precious jewels, incenses, spices and priceless works of art And hide my booty in the wide open caves no one el......Read the rest...

...morning sun, a newborn babe, exhales her first breath each dawn in mist daybreak’s kiss straddles the North Carolina and Tennessee line Cherokee Nation’s last reservation remains wi......Read the rest...

...Sent to his on tree in truth and fabled firewood topped so if you sow with the liar you will lose your crop ......Read the rest...

...(7/5 Trochee rhyme form) They’re coming. Listen closely. Hear that distant thrum. . . that steady thrum- thrum- thrumming of a tom-tom drum. There! Beyond the cornfield rows. Tell me, don’......Read the rest...

...I hear the whisper in the trees The path I now follow was meant to be For it was written out long ago That I must complete this task of which I still do not know Yet the signs are here and the......Read the rest...

...There is a little cemetery in Oklahoma, by a town, Tahlequah, it is named. Chief John Ross is buried there. Of the “Trail Of Tears” he was famed. Just a little sign on the left of the road, ......Read the rest...