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Bushwhackers Poems - Poems about Bushwhackers


Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
... 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
Premium Member 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

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