Sad Civil Poems

Dancing to a Dixieland band, I think of General Lee
And General Sherman who led a march to the sea.
I am glad that I did not...

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...Emmet would converse with Sophie,
pretend he was a normal man,
while April and Abner slipped away…
young infatuation was grand.

And after their third time out there
April and...

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Kabul Has Fallen

Kabul has fallen
The news screams 
Kabul has fallen
In less than two weeks

The intel officers
Got it so wrong
Everyone said
That Kabul would not fall
That the...

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Civil War pitted neighbors against neighbors, brothers against brothers.
Lincoln would have most assuredly avoided it if he had his druthers.
He knew it was a horrible...

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Where is my brother?
Did he decide to fight for Missouri
Or did he go to the side of the traitors?
It is a glorious day but a...

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All around me is the dark,
Because I feel like I’ve lost my spark.
This world is far too cruel,
And everyone is such a fool.
I no longer...

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To the melody of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again..."

When Father comes marching home again,
  Oh, no! Oh, no!
He'll give me a helluva spanking...

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Cant sit nor stand without looking over my shoulder,
I hear the beat of the drum, the war is closer.
Feel it’s rumble, so close to home,
It...

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Help
I can not win this battle on my own

I needed you
But you left me alone

I begged you
But you'd just get stoned

My heart is gone
It's my...

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She sleeps on the south, I sleep on the north side of the bed
Each night we take turns, staring at the wall
The Mason Dixon line,...

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In 1860 life was good, 
'Till its simpleness ceased one day. 
The North wished to save the Union 
While the South chose to break away.

America...

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one by one, drop by drop they 
fall.                 ...

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I crossed the Fields of Misery 
And wept in blood-let streams. 
I saw the face of Terror 
Frozen in a soldier's scream. 

I heard the...

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