If you look out of your car
you'll see them - waving hair and
burning wings - on caracara
there's flying by: a capybara

Dario Sanches © flickr.com

poem by Phil ccniceguy2

I have named you queen.
There are taller ones than you, taller.
There are purer ones than you, purer.
There are lovelier than you, lovelier.

But you are the queen.

When you go through the streets
no one recognizes you.
No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks
at the carpet of red gold
that you tread as you pass,
the nonexistent carpet.

And when you appear
all the rivers sound
in my body, bells
shake the sky,
and a hymn fills the world.

Only you and I,
only you and I, my love,
listen to it.

hargerstenguy © flickr.com

source - www.links2love.com/poetry_158.htm

I leave my home, and the dear
with sorrow at my heart
It is my Country`s Call dear
To aid her I depart
And on the blood red battle plain,
We'll conquer or we'll die,
Tis for our honor and our name,
We raise the battle cry

then weep not, dearest weep not
if in her cause I fall
Oh, weep not dearest, weep not
It is my Country's Call

And yet my heart is sore, love
To see the weeping tears
But mark me, there's no fear love
For in Heaven is our trust
And if the heavy drooping tear
Swell's in my mournful eye,
It is that Northmen of our land
Should cause the battle cry

then weep not, dearest weep not
if in her cause I fall
Oh, weep not dearest, weep not
It is my Country's Call


johnnybaker (c) flickr.com
Our rights have been usurped dear,
By North man of our land
Fanaticks raised the cry, dear
Politicians fired the brand,
The Southerns spurn the galling yoke
The Tyrants threats defy,
They find we're sons like sturdy oak.
To raise the battle cry

then weep not, dearest weep not
if in her cause I fall
Oh, weep not dearest, weep not
It is my Country's Call

I know you'll let me go pet
I saw it in the tear
To join the gallant men pet
Who never yet knew fear
With Beauregard and David
We'll gain our cause or die
With battles like Manasses
And raise the battle cry

then weep not, dearest weep not
if in her cause I fall
Oh, weep not dearest, weep not
It is my Country's Call