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Antietam Poems - Poems about Antietam

Premium Member Salute
...Salute Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Lundy’s Lane, Monterey, Bull Run, Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, St. Mihiel, Belleau Woods, D-Day, Saipan, Iwo Jima, The Bulge, Chosin Reservoir, Pork Chop Hill, ......

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Categories: antietam, hero,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thank You For Your Service
...Thank You For Your Service “Thank you for your service." How many times have I heard that. Do they know or understand? Do they really care? I fought at Bloody Antiet......

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Categories: antietam, veterans day,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Journey Through History
...A man whose eyes seem distant and cold takes me on a journey through history with thoughts of wonder and interest leaving me with more questions than answers about his life, his dreams there'......

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Categories: antietam, history,
Form: Free verse
September 17, 1862
...(Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862; 2,100 Union dead, 1550 Confederate dead) the day September seventeenth in eighteen sixty-two found stalks of corn in Maryland ......

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Categories: antietam, america, history,
Form: Free verse
1861
...Silent, dawn crept low and solemn Over the Virginia valley The misty orange haze of a pale sunrise Cloaking the farmer's field Blue and Gray, mixed with red Life fleeing with each labored brea......

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Categories: antietam, america, brother, change, conflict,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Antietam Creek Maryland
...Antietam Creek, Maryland Antietam was fought on Maryland ground at the foothills of Appalachia. There McClellan, Lee and Jackson were found with troops from Potomac and Virginia. McC......

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Categories: antietam, history, war,
Form: Sonnet
Visit To Antietam
...Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick over the gaps, across gentle hills out onto a knoll overlooking this burnished landscape. Before me I see countless writhing rows of indiscernible shapes g......

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Categories: antietam, america, conflict, history, together,
Form: Ode
My Greatest Fear
...I fear no man nor any man's intent I am not afraid of fire or of flood The Devil can keep his phosphorous scent And I am not moved by another's blood I pride myself on having a brave soul I ri......

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Categories: antietam, fear,
Form: Quatrain
The Breezes of Middletown
...When the wind is just right, I can close my eyes and pretend I'm in Middletown, pretend I can see the Blue Ridge Mountains off in the distance with the haze that gives them their name. Far......

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Categories: antietam, absence, beautiful, community, dream,
Form: Verse
After Sandy
...I never studied the downed limbs before Sandy. I was savoring the muscle burn from herringboning my way up a hill or fretting over a ping in my back, the price of macho competitions in the steel mi......

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Categories: antietam, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Pride In the American Troop
...They held the field, men side by side, Their will intact, their fears subside. They mustered in so many fields, And held the ground, refused to yield. At Lexington went toe to toe, With British ......

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Categories: antietam, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Antietam
...Antietam I lay in the creek my face to the ground My hand on my musket, I pray I’m not found The bullets were flying, the soldiers were dying Antietam; the battle’s begun I fired on the troo......

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Categories: antietam, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Souls Released
... Down a strange road, they are guided by an unknown force. These misplaced souls are all journeying on the same course. All of them have undergone intolerable strife. To them, this trail sta......

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Categories: antietam, allegory, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member After the Battle
...All is serene tonight along the banks of Antietam Creek. 'Neath the brooding moon, the battlefield looks so bleak. Bloodied ground was hallowed on this dire September day. On the field this night,......

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Categories: antietam, warmen,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ashokan Farewell
...The haunting strains of "Ashokan Farewell" keep racing thro' my brain. 'Tis a fitting requiem for those who bore the agonizing pain, Of bidding a sad farewell at many a humble cabin door, As young......

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Categories: antietam, poetry, sad, time,
Form: Rhyme

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