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Where has the Shawnee gone?
by Paul A Drouillard → (All Poetry by Paul A Drouillard)
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Traveling down I-75 today through Central Ohio and it is where most of my Native American poetry comes to me. Today it came to me as a song.


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Where has the Shawnee gone?
 

Standing here on sacred ground
High on a hilltop looking all around
With the wind there is a mystic sound
Asking where has the Shawnee gone?

I hear a crying ow wes sha ne na
Where has the Shawnee gone?

There is a hawk in a tall oak tree
I look at him, looking back at me
He wants to know why it had to be
Where has the Shawnee gone?

I hear a crying ow wes sha ne na
Where has the Shawnee gone?

There’s a spirit in a backwood's stream
That flows through it like a distant dream
And just what it is, is just as it seems
A spirit crying where has the Shawnee gone

I hear a crying ow wes sha ne na
Where has the Shawnee gone?

In Central Ohio it is everywhere
A otherworldly feeling hanging in the air
The soil cries out "how can this be fair"
Where has the Shawnee gone?

I hear a crying ow wes sha ne na
Where has the Shawnee gone?

-Drouillard

 

 


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 Reviews of "Where has the Shawnee gone?"
Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on July 11, 2010
A MOST ENJOYED WORK - DONE WELL. ...THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING. LOVE AND BLESSINGS, JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by David Maclellan
Reviewed on July 10, 2010
Paul, what a beautiful poem. It is a tribute to your heritage and culture of a proud but not forgotten people.
Warm regards, David


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