Rebel shout

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    Rebel shout

    As fragrant peach blossoms
    blew about
    the young men in gray went to battle with a rebel shout
    beautiful day and the smell was sweet
    as their bodies lay in blood soaked clothes
    for a cause they felt to meet
    they had only cotton and courage
    and a fight in their souls
    burning inside the average southern boy
    was a fire's hottest coals
    every son in gray heard Dixie and carried it to his grave

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    carynontherhine commented on Rebel shout

    01-20-2011

    I detest all wars! I once told a poet that some wars were necessary and he told me no wars are and all are senseless. I think that is true. I can see these men in my mind going to battle. I only hope that they all had a ready made stairway to heaven. Great descriptives! Hugz
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    TinaD commented on Rebel shout

    01-18-2011

    Another good poem. Brings alive the civil war and all of the young men that were lost because of it.
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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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