Short Cherokee Poems

Wild Cherokee Rose
A native of southern China
Georgia state flower...

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The crest of mountains
Are like sleepy cottonwoods
Baths in the rays of 
The Cherokee sun...

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bare bleached bones shining
	vapored vision of verglas ~
		horned owl screeches surge

(February Full Moon – Cherokee)
...

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pink head salmon
leap from the
bright river currents of
the Cherokee River and
flop into the hollow mouth
of the black grizzly bear...

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At the rising sun they came,

driving us from our homeland.

Miles and miles our people limped.

The weakened ones fell.



For the "Miles" contest...

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Wolf Heart has a noble soul
his tribe reveres him
Apache, Cherokee and Wyandotte fear him
only three see his tender side
his power animals and his wife Eagle feather...

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A journey they seek
Now forcibly evicted ~~
Generations past ¬
Everlasting memories
Follow the Cherokee Trail ~~









http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/indigenous-americans-2.php...

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A sinner in search of salvation
Discovered the Cherokee Nation
So many look white
The fit was just right
What white man needs a reservation? 

* BIA= Bureau of Indian Affairs
aka "Bossing Indians Around"...

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Spiritual beings
Caretakers of land
Legends and stories
Lovers of children
Saviors of settlers

United States
Cherokee nation
The Paute Tribe
Crow and Lakota

Apache
Wyandotte
Mohaw tribe

Native
People

Home...

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Let them see,
Indigenous blood.
Overlook all madness
Let them see the partial son
Rise with pride, not sadness
If you gave,
My face their eyes,
A trait by shape,
And fashion,
Let them see my Cherokee,
Amid my given blackness....

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I must bid you adieu
In just three languages will do
Donadagohvi--Cherokee
Adios--Spanish you see
Goodbye--English the language of you and me.


(Ado means busy, noisy bustle etc.  Hear I mean I am saying goodbye but I am busy.)...

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Hi Yo, Silver...says, the Lone Ranger 
When Tonto, gets deep into danger 
From his tongue of Cherokee 
He yells out "kemosabe" 
Then they smoke peace pipes in the manger 


Limerick 3 Poetry Contest 
Sponsor Joseph May 
1-28-2019 

(99779 syllable count)...

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There's a Cherokee
Rose that's growing in
Georgia,  that's planted 
In the richest moist soil
Blooms are showy white

In spring time, thanks
For all your toil
Waxy green leaves
All the summer

Deep red hips
With seed for 
The birds, please

Bloom now
Autumn

Rose...

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Russian--Dosvidaniya
Spanish--Adios
Arabic--Elalleqa
Persian--Khodaahaafez
Cherokee--Donadagohvi
Navajo--Hagoonea'
Japanese--Jane
German--Auf Wiedersehen
Italian--Arrivederci
French--Au Revor
Swedish--Hejda'
Hawaaiian--Aloha
Hebrew--Shalom

Goodbye in so many languages. It is time to go.  So long....

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LONESOME ROAD is a paved road that on a country drive in Perry county. Around Ziontown, Ohio. Population. 1. Cherokee Bison Ranch located on Lonesome Road. Around The Square Magazine. NOBLE COUNTY. A monthly publication. The magazine is free the third Monday of every month. Local authors. Is available:

    WWW.Journal-leader.com...

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“...like small Cherokee children, torn from freedom and
the mountains, paled in faded lodges by rocky Oklahoma streams.

Bettie M. Sellers Westward from Bald Mountain 1974

LIBRARY CLUES

Ms. Bettie Sellers’
bald mountain of poems
subtly lays dormant
until a Cherokee chats —
voices commune together

3/1/2020...

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Another time another place 
I remember your smiling face 
But time has faded such memories 
And only true love can set them free 
I have searched but could not find 
The one true love I left behind 
And here you are how can this be 
The spirits have smiled down on me 
And placed you here now with me 
The brave warrior and the maiden of the Cherokee...

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Cherokee Warrior,
   so proud and free...
Tell me young warrior,
  what do you see?

A beautiful girl
  long hair of gold,
A carefree heart
  so tempting to hold.

Both young and so daring
  full of life and fun.
Each seeking happiness
  a place of your own.

A life of past hurts,
  could they overcome?
This Cherokee Warrior
  and the proud Golden One......

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In photographs and dreams,
memories of the Great Smoky Mountains, I see
Chilly streams

Clay pot crafting
Childhood days with my family
Rafting

Hot sun
in Cherokee
Fun!

In photographs and dreams.
childhood days with my family
fun!



*Cherokee is a town in the Smoky Mountain Range
August 19, 2020
An Innocent Childhood Memory Contest
Sponsored by:  Mohan Chutani...

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Cooler days follow an old Cherokee trail
into a reclaiming Indian summer.
Yellow maple leaf singe at their edges.
Russet hues are browning.
Autumn may linger around town
fraying and wilting
until Halloween cuts down the sun.
We peer sweating through imagined clouds.
Evening bats are strung from charred branches
and droop silently
from their fire-proof strings....

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Try some day to buy 
A valuable for your guy 
To arrest his joyless doubts 
And explode his joyful shouts; 
To on your account feel “High”
And his mind rid of “Why?”
The damned depressed capital ‘WHY’
Depressed men ask in beds they lie 

A forbidden fruit valuable it can be 
Of some forbidden valuable tree…
Your final ‘Yes’ to his wished Cherokee 
Of a price the sting of bee!...

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Paint ponies by the lodge
White manes

Turned silver in the moon’s glow
Taste of Mother Earth

Burden baskets hang at the door
They hold many seasons

Of worries & fears
The night owl comes

He sings the death song
Your time here has ended

The West door beckons you
Night Owl grows silent

© March 1984



In Memory of Jacob Michael MacCallister
March 18, 1957 ~ January 26, 1983...

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Cherokee Travelers' Blessing
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own brother, my own blood.
When you are disconsolate, I will wipe the tears from your eyes.
And when you are too sad to live, I will put your aching heart to rest.

Originally published by Better Than Starbucks...

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Her heart yearns for better days
Her love of her land she displays
Tee-pee tall and strong of leather
Just to block unspeakable weather.

She lingers near the cool blue-green pond
She longs for lost lover in the beyond
He a brave fought the wild war
Did not know what was soon in-store.

Days of travel now behind
Trial of tears of no other kind
She sits in woods cool breezes blow
With heart heavy as family go.

Linda Terrell
December 20, 2009...

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I remember another place anther time,
 So long ago, so many memories left behind.
Promises made under the moonlit sky,
And them in the blink of an eye, you were gone and I never knew why.
A  mighty warrior over so many braves, you watched over all of us,
You gave us your kindness, your wisdom, and most of all you gave us your trust.
And so as  I think of you and remember you so  fondly 
 Know you will always be my warrior, my friend, my brave Cherokee...

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