The following poem is about the Trail of Tears. This poem contains information about these events from the following four documents: Excerpts from Jackson seventh annual letter to Congress, Excerpts from John Ross’s words to the delegates of the Iroquois League, John G. Burnett’s account in “The Trail of Tears”, and a poem by Abe “Del” Jones. In this poem, my opinions and others have been displayed:
The Trail of Tears
completes this Americans worst of fears
Upon reading of this event
I thought this countries past indecent
Andrew Jackson wrote to congress
about the Indian removal process
Like a bumbling bunch of flies
Congress fell for Jackson’s lies
Jackson cruelly stated his opinions
Altering congresses own decision
Jackson promised similar conditions
But the land had in convent divisions
John Ross complained about the loss of cultural diversity
Which was to come true as we can see
He told the Iroquois league the very facts
They should make up for the white man lacks
The Choctaws, Chickasaws and the Creeks
would leave on a journey that would take them weeks
they left the homes they’d had for years
only to name their trek the “Trail of Tears”
John G. Burnett has his own account
I think he really knew what this was about
He talked of the misery and the pain
the Cherokee had to sustain
He spoke fondly of John Ross’s wife who help the weak
only to die in a winter so bleak
Burnett tried to help the sick
he helped with his own hatchet trick
Another poem by Abe “Del” Jones
tells of the trail in sorrowful tones
it speaks of Chief Junaluska thinking it was fair
for the man he saved, Jackson, to care
It also speaks of Chief John Ross’s wife
who made a big difference in her short life
only to die on “The Trail of Tears”
Hopefully it has and will haunt Americans for years
This poem was of the Cherokee wreak
which was from a devil planned trek
I hope this haunted Andrew Jackson in death
as I’m sure it did all the rest.
Don't do a double post, Soko. Just wait for people to come. And heh, I didn't even read your poem yet. ^_^;;
Yes augi. And hey you did not read it!!!? *pout* :havok: