Muskets Poems - Poems about Muskets

...Pikes held high, Flags fill the sky, Drummer boys sound the beat, Musket men are on their feet. White smoke swirls, ram down the ball really hard, Pour in the gunpowder to make the charge. ......Read the rest...

...War, War We need more War. Come patriots, Come comrades, Let’s all go to Waaaar! Raise your banners, Gather your muskets, Sharpen your swords, Let's all go to Waaaar! Won’t it be fun, T......Read the rest...

...He Was A True Master, A True Master Of His Destiny I am a sailor, a wanderer, a sailor born to be. I have sailed mighty oceans, all the seven wide seas. There is not a soil tiller, not that ki......Read the rest...

......Outside the French guns continued to screech, a blast rocked them all, and opened a breach, morale was fading, beginning to sag, the next day the French sent out a truce flag. Ned watched fr......Read the rest...

...Just outside his window, moonlight turns the pounding rain ¦¦ into gems that glitter on the grass Crouching, with his face mere inches from the lower pane, ¦¦ he fogs up the bottom of the glass......Read the rest...

...Arms, legs, fists, feet, beating chests; teeth meet. Stones, bones, sharp-honed tusks, poisoned darts; obsidian clubs. Slings, arrows, outrageous bows, black-edged flints; sharp-pointe......Read the rest...

...Dropped anchor off the Fever Coast ‘board a rake-masted schooner Spooked by Ahab’s ghost. Lamps glowered through the yawning blanks Casting bone-twisted shadows Over teakwood planks. Salt bi......Read the rest...

...My people are shipwrecks, they have faces long crushed by tanks. Many are landlocked, a few were too oceanic they got broken by dry-docked hearts. Most were blitzed by smokescreens. The trees......Read the rest...

......Duncan’s unit, the 42nd, was placed in the center of the mass, the French would crumble quick, he reckoned, when the lines started marching at last, not knowing that no orders had come, yet o......Read the rest...

......But with redcoats in the rear they couldn’t persevere, on narrows paths by a small creek escape from their foes they did seek, but who would guard the rear? Stirling and four hundred brave m......Read the rest...

...A Star Shines in Alba’s Sky Star shines above a frosty mountain where sheep in summer grazed, Bright shining ones gathered in vast numbers to praise, Snow fell to cover the granite rock and wher......Read the rest...

...There is something in the air Reflecting on freedom’s one day scare Signing a declaration we want to be on our own Handful self-proclaimed leaders setting a tone It was John Hancock first hol......Read the rest...

...As they say, “Where there’s smoke, there is fire” In this case it is certainly true. For a people who once ruled so many Find themselves in the place of the few. For so long they have led with ......Read the rest...

...Promises sweet promises of the melancholy Swaying too and fro back and forth aboard a rocking chair In tandem and in tune to the rhythm of the wind blowing through the chimes From the fron......Read the rest...

...General Cornwallis of Great Britain faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve, he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown, but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall. Instead he faced a ......Read the rest...