Tales of the Tribe http://wp.me/p102ON-E6 Synopsis: Society creates the stories it tells itself: factual, specious, apocryphal, dishonest; by any rendition, according to Wallace Stevens, will still be a fiction. Myth wears the clothes of its culture, will always be a social fact, and those who would eschew these basic facets of humanity, will prove […] Continue reading
An abstract journey through concrete Americana with a lagniappe through the “Great Discussion.” From serious humor to light-hearted gravitas, this is a trip you need to enjoy. Poetic postcards of Americana will be provided for. Our trip commences upon your arrival at Union Station, and continues until we arrive at a Paradigm Shift – […] Continue reading
…. Once, we were soldiers, Boys of eighteen; Intrepid and stupid, One just sixteen. Some were rock stolid, Caught-up in fraught; In rightness of action, Righteous, we thought. We were the children Of the Great War Our fathers had fought in, So there’d be no more. Dearer to children, O Lord! Give us pause – […] Continue reading
How! Thou art strange! One day, sound fabric; Another day, change. Some say by havoc Brought out in fringe – O Tempora! O Mores! Thou art, impinged! What would thee, common, Follow, instead? The dictates of Mammon? Whose body, thy bread? What now dost thou wear? What skin to be current? Again! Thou has changed […] Continue reading
[Note: The following is one chapter of a larger work, entitled “1863” an epic poem on the ‘Turn of Events’ at that time, from two major events of that year: Vicksburg and Gettysburg. Several sources have been used and are acknowledged.] ~ “When the Lord of Creation had finished his Acts, He […] Continue reading
The Trouble with Troy [Note: The following is one chapter of a larger work, entitled “1863” an epic poem on the ‘Turn of Events’ at that time, from two major events of that year: Vicksburg and Gettysburg. Several sources have been used and are acknowledged.] ~ Frustration and death plagued US Grant […] Continue reading
[Note: The following is one chapter of a larger work, entitled “1863” an epic poem on the ‘Turn of Events’ at that time, from two major events of that year: Vicksburg and Gettysburg. Several sources have been used and are acknowledged.] ~ McClernand had sided with William T. Sherman at Milliken’s Bend, on being […] Continue reading
~ Longstreet’s First Corps ran into action marching toward Devil’s Den. when Sickles vacated the Union protection, Little Round Top, from all of his men, Chamberlain saw it, and there he moved in with troops of the 20th Maine. Less than 400 spread out on top single file in a line westward way. On […] Continue reading
~ The town was entered from opposite sides, on horse by the Blue, and foot for the Gray. The North, from the south; the South from the north, as if old Misrule carried the day. A comedic performance seemed well underway, when tragic events would turn the whole play. John Reb had come in […] Continue reading
~ Mid-May, that day Stonewall is dead, buried the same day Lee will be speaking with Davis and Seddon, the Confederate Heads, a Confederate meeting on moving ahead. The first six months of Sixty-Three witnessed the most extraordinary campaigns in all the military heretofore seen in history. Jackson and Lee made legendary the […] Continue reading
[Note: The following is one chapter of a larger work, entitled “1863” an epic poem of the ‘Turn of Events’ at that time from the two major events that year: Vicksburg and Gettysburg. Several sources have been used and acknowledged.] ~ Down through the Yazoo’s Magnolia leafed region come a great body, […] Continue reading
[Note: The following is one chapter of a larger work, entitled “1863” an epic poem of the ‘Turn of Events’ at that time from the two major events that year: Vicksburg and Gettysburg. Several sources have been used and acknowledged.] ~ Eighteen Sixty-three came with a bang, but went, with a whimper, at […] Continue reading
[Note: The following is one chapter of a larger work, entitled “1863” an epic poem of the ‘Turn of Events’ at that time from the two major events that year: Vicksburg and Gettysburg. Several sources have been used and acknowledged.] ~ Grant was now fighting two wars at once: a private along with […] Continue reading
Thin wisps, like smoke, that fly from the fire, a mist late at night, broken down, but higher, flies past the face of a moon I desire. Deep in this night two bodies aspire – Venus and Luna, in search for a fire. Between we three, an army expires – It’s Robert […] Continue reading
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