Reb Poems - Poems about Reb

... To the hell of Theresienstadt transported all hope for freedom aborted Rabbi Shmuel Goldin understood what awaited a life of forced labor now fated Led into his barracks,......Read the rest...

......Though in closing, it must be said they did not remain there for long. A damned Yankee wed to a Reb? The locals all declared it wrong. Like many others they went west, and made Colorado the......Read the rest...

......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 Abner were eng......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...They came to me for Jewish names A Russian-Jewish couple, not to blame Where they were from, Hebrew was banned As it had been throughout Communist lands His name was Boris; hers was Brony......Read the rest...

......“Time was I wouldn’t care for your sad state, I’d have my fun and leave you to your plight, but four years in a cell changes a man, and I have set out to live my days right. “Been in nothing......Read the rest...

...(continued) She wanted me to re-marry, you see, but I never did. Oh, I had a few trysts, here-and-there, just to remind myself the plumbing still worked, but all it REALLY did was remind me ho......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...I ain't afraid of no ghost, friend, You can bet your bottom dollar I'm an expert on ghosts of men - I was born in Booger Holler. Now the Holler's a mile across And the length is about the same......Read the rest...

...Fiddling About. by The Didds Annual Concert, DMT, Time to act, you and me, At Dauntsey School, a painted floor, performed in the round, with rehearsals at Sheep Street church, St Joe's school......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...Taken by the heart and crushed, Emotions shattered, thoughts rushed. Crippled by the love that was finally denied. Riddled by the gunfire by a lover who lied. Hurt and beaten down, yet I stand tall,......Read the rest...

...Above my hearth rests a muzzle loader I know not how old. Ah, could it speak, what adventurous tales to be told! Oft I've caressed it and pondered time and again, About where it was made and who i......Read the rest...