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Kevo
Member

since 2004-06-02

Posts 466
Navarro County, Texas, USA

0 posted 2004-08-15 04:00 AM

I am back. My computer has been re-born. A couple hundred dollars and a new modem later! Update your virus check or end up like me. What a nightmare that was! Hope you enjoy this one.
Forget Me Not

Settle in this evening fair,
for not contrite this humble
gift donned of sweet liberty
by purposed men baptized in
blood and cannon-fire.

Forget me not.
Honor prevailed at the
hands of heroes sacrificed
upon your hallowed eve
of independence.

Did dawn not find our coats bled red?
Nay, to contrary,
our coats still bleed blue eternal
upon that crimson field
of sacrificed sons
and lamenting fathers.

Should not liberty
have begotten justice
upon the redcoat
borne of Patriot blood?

Desparate indpependence quartered
no crown in patriot provision then.
Yet, now propagate traitors among us?
The turncoat in contempt haunts me
well beyond my living days.

Shall I find scarlet
upon the back of my son?
The breast of my daughter?
the hearts of my children
centuries hence?

Surely, I returned then,
glorifed in union
...and independence.
Is it not written?

This union I gifted freely to you.
Sired by blood.
bequeathed by bravery.
Defended by honor.

Established by right.
Principled in equality.
Purposed in liberty.
For all men.

Do you know of me
My child, born free
by my blood spilled
these centuries passed?

Do you not remember me?
I was shunned by you;
cast away at your doorstep
by the voice of ignorance.

You have abandoned me;.
my brothers put to slaughter
readily forsaken by you
as you so freely sing in defiance.

You have forgotten me;
blinded by blasphemy
and foolish pride.

Open your door to me now.
Wait by your casement and
sing your sweet lullaby
of sorrow, of sacrifice, and
of patriot sons loved once again.

I have not forgotten you.
I carried the banner of ignorance
for you upon embattled fields
annointed in patriot blood.

Fool am I to have levied your
voice of ignorance for you?
Child, this was my gift to you.

Forget me not.
I am the son of liberty.

Copyright, Kevin V. Reese, 2004

aujussy wolf

Senior Member

since 2003-08-09

Posts 1215
Michigan

1 posted 2004-08-15 12:24 PM

old and new blood

flows to the same sea

....powerful write kevo
~wolf

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

2 posted 2004-08-15 12:30 PM

I have missed your voice and the soul behind your words. Glad to have you back.

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

3 posted 2004-08-15 12:30 PM

The gallons of life spilled upon the blue
seas, mingling, washing the shores in red
waves....silent, their lap...may we never
forget...welcome back Kevo....

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

4 posted 2004-08-15 03:30 PM

Powerful write!
Standing ovation.
TD

Glad to have you back with us Kevin.
What wonderful spices you add to our recipe here.

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

5 posted 2004-08-15 03:51 PM

Yes very powerful words...

bringing back memories of some "forgotten" though having kept us free...

M

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

6 posted 2004-08-15 03:56 PM

Kevin, it's good to see you back. This was very powerful and a tribute to the past and present. Bravo........jo

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2004-08-15 05:12 PM

Enjoyed...James

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

8 posted 2004-08-16 06:52 PM

enjoyed

exhale
Senior Member

since 2003-06-13

Posts 646
Alberta,Canada

9 posted 2004-08-16 10:08 PM

it's great to be back,and hear that you are too!
amazing write the last line fit beautifully with your words,i could feel the whole poem whilst i was reading it and loved every bit,very powerful.
you were born in Cali? wow where? to be perfectly honest my "vaction" consisted of sleeping on a leather -shudders- couch,moving my aunt out of her house in 50c weather..i hated every second,but i thought i would finsd something nice to say about it anyways lol,hope your copmputers back on track,i except a lot of poems from you

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

10 posted 2004-08-16 10:32 PM

Awesome write Kevo. Welcome back!
Chris

"At one glance
I love you
With a thousand hearts."

— Mihri Hatun, Turkish poet

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

11 posted 2004-08-17 03:40 AM

welcome back

~K~
Member

since 2004-07-27

Posts 148

12 posted 2004-08-17 05:06 AM

Hi! Thanks for getting my attention with that extremely flattering response & leading me to this work of art! I enjoyed it very much & look forward to reading your other works!

~K

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