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"For Old Virginia!" - From a recurring dream I have
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"For Old Virginia!" - From a recurring dream I have |
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Kevo Member
since 2004-06-02
Posts 466Navarro County, Texas, USA 
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For Old Virginia! Inspired by a recurring dream. Billowing smoke suppresses the truth around me. I know where I am. I am afield in this brutal confine called Hell. Alone with my ethereal thoughts. I must have expired there, bathed in the blood of my brethren, on that field strewn with blues and grays awash in a crimson tide. As the smoke releases its stranglehold upon me I find that I am not with the slaughtered. A man I once knew as brother, summarily collapses into a lifeless heap of grays, golds, and reds. His bleeding coat conceals my cries. I am overwhelmed by the fragile balance of grief and elation as I realize my fortune. I have survived the harrowing advance of the colorless souls that, at last observance charged with such ferocity that I nearly quelled my fear with surrender rather than the report of my musket. As I lumbered again onto my weary feet, I lifted my gaze to the battered field so poignantly stretched out before my grievous eyes. The sacrificial screams of free men, etched into memory, shall haunt the rest of my lamenting days. Perhaps death would have befriended me. Without provocation, I remember with great clarity the moments before my shameful loss of consciousness. 'Twas' without reserve they charged so gallantly. Not once, not twice, but thrice for “Old Virginia,” I think it was. Yes, I heard the cry as clearly as I heard the report of their unruly cannons. I admired their valor beyond measure as I witnessed their impassioned resolve. I’d almost wished I could share in their Glory ...almost. Copyright, Kevin V. Reese, 2004 |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
you should write a novel |
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Sadelite Member Elite
since 2003-10-11
Posts 2519 |
Ke o, I believe you were there. This is so real... You write skillfully and with feeling. |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Nice write, Kevo. Good use of language, good flow as well! Corinne |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
I am in concordance with my sis, Sadelite. The only thing I don't understand is, why haven't you been here at PIP before! Your writing is eloquent.  ....jo |
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