Soldier Civil Poems

...Emmet just sat down on a bench,
And gratefully took his boots off,
Just stretched himself out there to rest,
for the moment it was enough.

The woman seemed...

Read More

Old Soldier's Disease:
Civil War soldiers would march
Pick and eat cherries

No toilet for them
No toilet paper either
Just woods, trees and leaves

The result's the same
Out fast and...

Read More

Waving a patriotic pennant is such the image 
Peaceful as a dove in war dirty as a pigeon
If Old Glory touches the ground 
Excommunicate the...

Read More

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...

Read More

I forgot he was White

 

I met a man on the train

A hundred miles from Tennessee

I studied him meticulously

Hoping he wouldn’t sit next to me

So...

Read More

"Lie still now, soldier", the Union General said,
As he knelt down beside the boy’s bloody, wounded head.
The dying young lad, no more than fifteen, if...

Read More

The beautiful heart of Asaba collapsed 
 Before the night watch,
Men dig their grave, buried alive
Carcass scatter the ground to be fed  by vultures
The...

Read More

It was not really a picnic.
The odor was in the air.
Tomorrow the battle.
Time for a song and prayer.
Standing before his lonely tent.
Cleaning his gun and...

Read More