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Walter Poe
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0 posted 2014-07-10 05:55 AM


The sounds of battle echoed
ripped the blue out of the skies
Across the field it did rain the rain
of a thousand crying eyes

Swords did burn
Rivers did swell
As Banks burst
As Angels fell

Beneath Fathers judging gaze
The First as they did clash
The Family blown asunder
'twixt hilt and bloody lash

Hearts did ache
Souls did cross
The feathers fell
With innocence lost

So blood was spilt as lovers
they stood in battle toe to toe
They wept such as innocent tears
even as they did spend the final blow

Warriors they did stand
Children they did fall
They know not what they did
God cannot help us all.

Tears washed forth the field
As a fathers burdens spread
Children of hope washed down to fire
Even as they escape to drown.

Pain did come
Paradise did split
A Fathers betrayal
An end to Joy

I aint as good as I once was but I'm as good, once, as I ever was. - Toby Keith

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bel1e
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since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631

1 posted 2014-07-10 06:16 AM


Love...sometimes it is a fierce power of destruction...innate I think....in some of us...that same self-destructive force we tend to indulge from time to time...why can't things ever be simple....huh?

This is an exciting and wrathful spill, Walter Poe...

Write-on~*~*

                 

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
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2 posted 2014-07-10 03:19 PM


Walter
You must be a very old soul. Your writings like this echo the past. I believe you could write about the dawning of dirt and find the noble and the tragic, the love and loss and captivate us all.  Well done.

Lori

latearrival
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since 2003-03-21
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3 posted 2014-07-10 08:03 PM


And we never learn.Sending boys and girls off to war even as we sit and type these messages it goes on and on and on..Sad Jo
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