Tarnished with blood yet gilded with glory,
A leader fell 'd ,a nation's shamed story.
Heavy the guilt, in a true moral dilemma.
Slavery spilled blood in warring dementia.
Idealistic credos, skewing the lines.
Dividing a nation, most deadly defined.
Blood of our brothers, spilled in pain gory.
Deliverance won, yet an unfinished story.
A disheartened clime, if violence found.
In uniting a nation, a quest compound.
For division destroys, with a mean hand,
Slayed a leader, of brotherhood in man.
by Suseann
Author notes
Just some thoughts in view of our 16th. President's pending birthday.
I've forwarded this to President Obama's White House address.
Foreword;
foreword;
More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other American wars combined. Combined casualties came to at least 620,000 dead, with over a million casualties in all.
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
Abraham Lincoln
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
Please tell me what you think
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Your poem reminds us that as divided as we are now, we are much more united than were were in the 1860s. It also reminds us of the high cost to our people from the sin of slavery, a wrong for which we still suffer. Good write.
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Moving!
You have deftly addressed a tramatic time in our country's history. Good Job!
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Thanks for your kind comment Mr. Manser. Doesn't seem to be many writings on AP honoring Lincoln for his tenture efforts or in honor of our fallen in the battles persuant to our civil war.
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i enjoyed the rhymes, but i was only able to get through the first two stanzas. this was really hard to read, i think you should change the backround or the text color
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Background changed now. Thank you for that heads up PoeticMadness.
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