Blue Mushroom
...Off the forest trails, where bushwhackers stray,
Restless Mary ducked branches, left her screen that day.
She was startled when a Horned owl flew
A dragonfly landed on her sleeve; its color wa...
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Categories:
bushwhackers, blue, childhood, dad, daughter,
Form: Lyric
Stranded in Peace
...spring blooms lost in deep snowdrifts
black ice roads mark highest peaks
shared coats and tea in old flasks
child builds snowman in a lee
night closing in on mountain
cold is seeping into bone...
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Categories:
bushwhackers, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Something To Look Forward To, Part I
...His name was Emmet Patterson,
and back in 1863,
he led a cavalry unit
patrolling deep in Tennessee.
The state was firm in Union hands,
Tte Civil War in its third year,
but the threat of parti...
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Categories:
bushwhackers, courage, death, life, loss,
Form: Epic
Jesse Rode With Quantrill
...Jesse rode with Quantrill as did his brother Frank
They were soldiers of the southland before they robbed a bank
Quantrill was a hero to the southern rebels when
He sort of lost control of his sen...
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Categories:
bushwhackers, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Graham Crackers
...Senator Lindsey Graham is crackers
As are all those Bill Cosby backers
Females are not toys
For abuse by boys
Who are clearly sadistic bushwhackers!...
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Categories:
bushwhackers, abuse, culture, discrimination, integrity,
Form: Limerick
Xylo the Loser
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Xylo, you love to eat the paper,
with your green tongue
lapping up every loose crumb
So xylophilous of you ...
The more paper you have,
the more there is to chew
Such a total loser...
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Categories:
bushwhackers, humorous, parody, truth, word
Form: Light Verse
The Outlander
...I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, f...
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Categories:
bushwhackers, change, childhood, community, history,
Form: Ballad