Underground Writers Network Forum Second Challenge of the week

Any thoughts, ideas for the challenge of the week?

Here goes my idea, let me know what you think. I found this image... and all sorts of thoughts came to my mind from it.



How about creating a piece that arises from an image/word? Same rules as before, any style, about 500 words or less.

I look forward to reading your ideas, thoughts. ;)

The Trail of Tears
Once proud
We raised our children
We watched them grow
Like cornstalks
With their own fruit to bear.

The wind carried dreams
Through grass and poplar groves

Once brave
We hunted brother bison
His death was sacred
The fire dance
Defending home with life

A new wind blows
From the East, across the plains

Once angry
With tomahawks ablaze
We painted our death masks
Fighting the thieves
And running for shelter

The wind has died
Death�s spore hangs in stagnation

Once afraid
As all we loved, lost
Stripped of freedom and life
Caged and tormented
Driven from home

A white wind pushes
Us to lands across the turtle

Once weary
Feet raw, bellies empty
On dried, sterile land we lived
Broken and lost
The victim they called devil

The wind carries
Only the memory of honor and pride

Eternally sad
Our ways lost, or abandoned
Our families scattered or worse
Who are we, now
The lost children of the Great Spirit

The wind fills the tracks
On our lonely trail of tears

That's a great piece Laslo. I also had thoughts of the trail of tears when I first found this picture.

I look forward to reading more... ;)