The Soldiers Stand

by Timothy   Sep 2, 2004


The field is large,
An open valley where 20,000 men fought;
The echoes of cannons blazing, muskets firing, and men screaming still exists,
The men and boys had killed each other with only patriotic thoughts.

140 years have passed,
Most of the bodies have long ago decayed to dust;
No one alive remembers these valiant heroes,
The weapons are now in museums or flaking into rust.

But the battle still wages,
The men and boys have gone quite insane;
The soldiers stand eternally at the ready,
North and South face off forever, on the ethereal plane.

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  • 20 years ago

    by jamie25

    nice work! i can almost see this battle!

  • 20 years ago

    by Timothy

    Thanks Jacki. But to say its an introduction into the other? They don't have anything to do with each other.

  • 20 years ago

    by Jacki

    also just wanted to add that i gave you a 5/5 :)

  • 20 years ago

    by Jacki

    i have to disagree w/ lucifer said. I personally am into this sort of stuff, and personally i liked this poem alot. I think it was really good, but I also Liked the final battle better. This was like a great introduction into that one.

  • 20 years ago

    by Timothy

    Hey, James, read my recent poem: "The Final Battle". It has more color. I generally like nice, simple, 3 or 4 stanza poems. I usually don't read a poem with 15 stanzas, unless the title or the 1st stanza or so catches my attention.

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