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Californis Gold and Johnny Reb 2

...CALIFORNIA GOLD AND JOHNNY REB
PART 2
So now we’ve made it we’re back in Tennessee
Don’t have to run anymore I’m in the land of the free
Heard the president was sending boys called the yanks
To ...

Categories: johnny reb, america,
Form: Rhyme

California Gold and Johnny Reb Part 1

...california gold and Johnny reb
I left my home in Tennessee to find some California gold
Gonna strike it rich and find the mother lode
After six long months on a dusty and lonesome trail
After all...

Categories: johnny reb, america,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 2

...d I would FEEL her, or get a waft of her scent,

or sense her eyes watching me,
but when I'd turn, she wouldn't be there.
I wrote it off as my imagination,
or some misguided hopes ...
but now, thinking back, I'm sure it was her ...

checking up on her "Johnny Reb",
her lost soldier ... her One and True.
Something ELSE that I started to notice after she left,
there were OTHERS ...
others like her, and quite a few, from what I could tell.

I al...

Categories: johnny reb, fantasy, history, soulmate, true
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 1

...SHE was my wife, once ...

long ago, so very long ago ...
we met on the showboat, up-river,
almost fifty years back now ...
I was a young officer for the Confederacy,
working for the Yanks afte...

Categories: johnny reb, history, sad love, soulmate,
Form: Free verse

Jenny, I'Ll Be Home To Tend the Crops This Fall

...Private Joshua Bronson wrote this letter by the camp fire where he lay,
Nigh a place called Gettysburg where a great battle loomed next day.
He'd bid farewell to Jenny and his children at their hum...

Categories: johnny reb, love, war,
Form: Rhyme

Republicans Are Really a Rip

...Republicans Are Really a Rip (Rest In Peace)

Took a jab at Jeb
Who might be a Johnny Reb
Should he ebb and ebb?

Full of ridicule
Candidates can be a fool
Mind has a loose tool.

Leaving t...

Categories: johnny reb, encouraging,
Form: Haiku

After the Battle

...All is serene tonight along the banks of Antietam Creek.
'Neath the brooding moon, the battlefield looks so bleak.
Bloodied ground was hallowed on this dire September day.
On the field this night,...

Categories: johnny reb, warmen,
Form: Rhyme

Cannon On the Court House Lawn

...It rests 'neath spreading sycamores on the small-town square,
A venerable old relic of the Civil War affair.
The sun casts a fleeting glint as it rises anew each dawn,
On the brass barrel of the c...

Categories: johnny reb, historyold, children, old,
Form: Rhyme