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Miss Abagail Mannering
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since 1999-09-01

Posts 136
byron, il

0 posted 2000-01-21 03:01 PM

A Young Life Lost
By Miss Abagail Mannering

The shot rang out
from the thicket of trees
and blood did spout
from a chest once heaved.

The cropse fell slowly,
once rosy cheaked-
to the fround now holy
without uttering a shriek.

The life source pooled
around the still boy...
who, just the day before
had played with a toy.

The laughter buggles not
from lips once red;
for he slumbers forever
in his earthy bed.

(written April 8, 1999 during my civil war class.)

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 2000-01-21 04:47 PM

So many young lives lost in so many wars.... very sad

Denise

JOY 14
Senior Member

since 1999-09-22

Posts 1419
Wisconsin USA

2 posted 2000-01-21 05:33 PM

sad, indeed

JOY

SnglDad
Member

since 2000-01-08

Posts 115
Seattle area

3 posted 2000-01-21 05:56 PM

A sad but powerful one.
Thanx For Sharing This one
And God Bless You and all that have
givin their live`s just to make our`s better.

Joel

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

4 posted 2000-01-22 09:06 AM

A very powerful reminder of the havoc war causes

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2000-01-22 05:36 PM

Yes, it's sad but true, its the old men who have already lived their lives who send the young men with so much life yet to be lived, to war, to kill and to die. And each time a young one dies an older one also dies on the inside knowing that they have lost a loving son or daughter to this thing we call war. James

Anne
Member

since 1999-12-31

Posts 78

6 posted 2000-01-22 07:20 PM

Oh, what have we become?
There are too many "young lives lost" even today.

freeverse
Junior Member

since 2000-01-22

Posts 14

7 posted 2000-01-23 12:07 PM

This is so sad .. : (

Miss Abagail Mannering
Member

since 1999-09-01

Posts 136
byron, il

8 posted 2000-01-23 12:30 PM

i wrote this poem right after the columbine high shootings..it was kinda inspred by that, and by my civil war class...consider it a poem that suits any century!

"Some people aren't worth a puddle of ant pee in the middle of a dessert when it's 100 degrees in the shade." -me

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