Magesty
... come let the Father speak His heart
In our minds
through our eyes
He sings melodies springs
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Categories:
buglers, analogy, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Taps Across America
...At 3 p.m. in every state,
All buglers, young and old,
Will join to play a tune which
On this date has oft consoled.
The song is 24 notes long
And “Taps” is what it’s named.
Its poignant sound...
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Categories:
buglers, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme
My Longest Day
...Night had been short, I still was highly tired
for my bones had been badly maltreated
during exhausting marches. I admired
comrade John who recently had cheated
the Reaper in the north at Stamfor...
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Categories:
buglers, memory, war,
Form: Ode
Let's Have a Parade
...~ Let's Have a Parade ~
A Shriner drives his little car
Hairpin turns upon a star
Red-fezzed Turks play guitars
Let’s have a parade…
A marching band is next in line
Buglers trumpet no...
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Categories:
buglers, celebration, encouraging, friendship, fun,
Form: Rhyme
O' Live Sweet Taps We Miss Thee
...O' LIVE Sweet TAPS We Miss Thee
Whoever thought it would come to this?
Live TAPS for the dead are dismissed.
The live bugle is silent. It's no longer real.
It's as dead as respect. It's a callo...
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Categories:
buglers, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme
Another Day At the Top of the World
...I am the peakest of peaks.
I rise out of morning mist,
a castle of earth.
From my towers, I see everything...
where sky meets heaven,
sunshine meets shadow.
My spires: pine, spruce, f...
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Categories:
buglers, earth, joy, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Last Post
...i'm sadly sick of the sweet refrain
Which reminds me of my comrades slain.
Each night in my sleep I dream the dream
The Last Post 's doleful requiem. .
We all stand in serried rank and file...
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Categories:
buglers, death, war,
Form: Couplet
Categories:
buglers, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Verse
25th October 1854 Part 1
...The Walk
Roans, chestnuts, blacks and greys
Stand the line in perfect swathes
Tunic buttons and brasses glisten
Brave men sit and for orders listen
The finest horse out on parade
Six hundre...
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Categories:
buglers, epicmen, light, longing, day,
Form: Epic
Taps For a Veteran
...It was so simple
All he had to do
Was what they
Told him
Stand straight
Wet your lips
Press the valves
And let the bugle do the rest.
The last few words
Were the toughest
“..Then goodn...
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Categories:
buglers, lifesound, sound,
Form: Narrative
My Ballad For Bobbi Jean
...I sat beside my window
To greet the early morn
And hope that I may hear soon
The buglers upon their horns
Only then will I be sure
That my heart be full of glee
Harrah! He is home now
My trav...
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Categories:
buglers, fantasy, cousin,
Form: ABC
Korea 1950
...UN soldiers fought and were forced to retreat
Behind sandbags protected by barbwire hoops.
Many GI's died as they held off attacks,
By 810,000 Communist troops.
Our guys used phosphorus, flame-...
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Categories:
buglers, history,
Form: Rhyme