LITTLE BEAR AND SUNSHINE |
POEM AND STORY BY SUSAN KAHON |
LITTLE BEAR AND SUNSHINE INDIAN BRAVE AND MAID STAND BY THE BANKS OF OLD OAKS CREEK THIS DAY... THEIR VOWS WERE MADE.... (SUNSHINE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A SIOUX INDIAN CHIEF NAMED TALL TRESS BY THE WATER.TALL TRESS BY THE WATER DID NOT WANT SUNSHINE TO MARRY AND TAKE HER VOWS WITH LITTLE BEAR,FEARING HE WOULD NOT BE BRAVE ENOUGH IN BATTLE,FOR HE WAS SMALL IN STATURE..SO HE TRIED TO ARRANGE, WHEN THE NEXT BATTLE TOOK PLACE TO HAVE LITTLE BEAR PERMANENTLY REMOVED FROM SUNSHINE'S LIFE.) LITTLE BEAR,SO BRAVE AT HEART FEAR YE NOT,SHE LOVES YOU SO TODAY NOTHING THAT THIS WORLD COULD DO COULD TAKE HER LOVE AWAY. (WHEN THE NEXT BATTLE CAME,WHEN LITTLE BEAR RODE BY THE OTHER BRAVES SIDE..TALL TREES ARRANGED FOR HIS HORSE TO SWERVE AND HE KICKED HIS HORSE SO IT WOULD REAR UP AND HE KNOCKED LITTLE BEAR DOWN TO THE GROUND.THEN HE PIERCED HIM WITH AN ARROWHEAD AND LEFT HIM THERE TO DIE.THE OTHER BRAVES STOOD BY IN SILENCE ,FEARING THEIR INDIAN CHIEF) SUNSHINE HEARD THE LONELY CRY A WAIL FROM SOME FAR DISTANT PLACE A VISION CAME SO SUDDENLY SHE SAW HER LOVER'S FACE (SUNSHINE COULD FEEL AND SENSE THAT LITTLE BEAR WAS INJURED.BUT SHE DID NOT KNOW THAT THE ANGELS OF THE GREAT SPIRIT IN THE SKY HAD COME TO HEAL HER WOUNDED BRAVE. ANGELS SURROUNDED LITTLE BEAR AND HIS SPIRIT WAS HEALED BY THE ALMIGHTY POWER.) LITTLE BEAR AND SUNSHINE FOR THEY BELIEVED IN LOVE TRAVELED TO ANOTHER SHORE WHERE PEACE COMES FROM ABOVE LITTLE BEAR AND SUNSHINE INDIAN BRAVE AND MAID STAND BY THE BANKS OF OLD OAKS CREEK THIS DAY...THEIR VOWS WERE MADE.... written with love,by Susan Kahon |
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