Rebs Poems - Poems about Rebs

Business 101: 'art' of trade

...evil for evil
good for good ~ can there be trades
trader for traitor

is it wrong to wish
ill on others ~ it is not
I've heard you've back pains

trust standards sides low
I err t...

Categories: rebs, fate, inspiration, integrity, jealousy,
Form: Senryu

To Win By Losing, Or the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Part I

...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 ...

Categories: rebs, america, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Epic

On Champlain's Shores

...In a meadow lush and green,
by a lake grand as a sea,
there once was a lonely house
small and brown.

Inside it someone would wait
for a man who went away,
a man who was long ago
in the groun...

Categories: rebs, death, loss, lost love,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Phantoms of Gettysburg

...Fields that echoed with the muskets' rattle;
Blood of Yanks and Rebs spilt in dire battle;
Now serene with murmurs of restless ghosts,
Of men who died among the frenzied hosts!

Are those the si...

Categories: rebs, america, history, war,
Form: Sonnet

At War With My Country

...Suddenly I feel at war with my Country,
Country of origin, land of my birth,
Fortunate senior, not long for the Earth.

Patriot lust to kill natives still lingers,
Mass racial prejudice never wi...

Categories: rebs, abuse, anxiety, introspection, prejudice,
Form: Quatrain

Last 3 Stanzas of Dixie Poem

...Descending the hill, they danced to old reels
Most composed with a Southerner's pen
Four years the blood spilled, half a million were killed
But the States were united again

Celebration complet...

Categories: rebs, war,
Form: Ballad

One Night In Dixie

...The road wore a coat, a thick blanket of snow
Spring had not reached those Tennessee hills
As midnight approached, three Rebs lie in a hole
Near a slope where six brethren were killed

In tatter...

Categories: rebs, war,
Form: Ballad

The Finest Antebellum Mansion In the South

...The Finest Antebellum Mansion in the South

By Elton Camp

Windsor was near the banks of the Mississippi River 
Extreme luxury, size, beauty and comfort it did deliver
The manor was completed j...

Categories: rebs, historyhouse, war, house, war,
Form: Rhyme

Proportions of Wo/Man Charmed By a Snake

...From the first instant
my eyes laid bare 
circled and squared
at the feet
of a Vitruvian man,
the one uniqueness
in my possession,
I was lust to your loins


as images permeated
and shiver...

Categories: rebs, love, passionme,
Form: Blank verse

The Bugle Boy

...I said, "Son, you look too young
To wear that uniform.
You ought to be home with your ma,
There, by the fireside warm.
                                      
"That bugle hanging 'round your neck...

Categories: rebs, death, history, people, social,
Form: I do not know?