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Burnside Poems - Poems about Burnside


Premium Member Stroke-A-Back
...“Stroke-a-back stroke-a-back someone’s going to touch you in a moment from now, I’ll draw the snake but I won’t end it.” The old gas ligh......

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Categories: burnside, remember,
Form: Rhyme
A Gap In the Gyre -- Part 1
...An old hotel in Portland Rain hitting street lamps The buzzer Click Surveillance camera “Can I get a room?” It used to be called the "Burnside Triangle" back when it was still gay Bump Bum......

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Categories: burnside, addiction, drug, recovery from,
Form: Concrete



Burnside's Blunder
...(This is a brief summary of the Battle of Fredericksburg that occurred from December 11-15 in the year 1862. The American Civil War was raging on and mistakes made by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside resul......

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Categories: burnside, history, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Word Fantasy In F Sharp Minor In 3 Movements
...Word Fantasy in F Sharp Minor (3 Movements) 1 (Andante con moto) Hey man. Take this. I got it last night, under a fractured street light, with shattered pieces of clear glass, scattere......

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Categories: burnside, allegory,
Form: Free verse
The Cool, Roan Rider, Part I
...He trotted up to Hamlin’s Bar, stopping in for a quick drink. He sat a tall, blue roan Mustang, with a hide like darkest ink. He paced into the noisy saloon, amidst gamblers, drunks, and whore......

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Categories: burnside, adventure, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Antietam
...Antietam I lay in the creek my face to the ground My hand on my musket, I pray I’m not found The bullets were flying, the soldiers were dying Antietam; the battle’s begun I fired on the troo......

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Categories: burnside, war,
Form: Rhyme

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