THE SPIDER CRAWLS

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Who I am

THE SPIDER CRAWLS

Are you scared

Or do you not fear

The other man

With all the gear

Do the weapons

He carries with him

Make you feel nothing

Or can you see a light dim

Do the miles a way

Keep you light at heart

Do you believe it can

Draw closer, not so far apart

The TV shows make it seem surreal

The fighting the killing are most real

The bullet that entered that young man’s heart

Most certainly touched me, made me fall apart

Do you believe it can happen to you

Or do you think it is only there

As we watch those beheaded and die

What about the guns going off everywhere

Do you have a place to run and hide

Or do you believe in standing strong

Our nation once so strong now

Parting, fighting all day long.

I pray for our souls every night

I pray for peace and humanity

I fear if we don’t stand strong for all

We could be the ones pleading oh please.

Written by,

Terry Shepherd

08.23.2014

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Soldier Boy

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Who I am

SOLDIER BOY

I know they called

You have a job to do

I have to step aside

Remember my love for you

I look through the glass

With rain and tear drops mixed

I watch for the man to walk

I keep my face so fixed

You see I received a letter

Telling me there was news

I couldn’t help feel the flutter

In my heart as it turned blue

No more smiles on my face

As he read the letter out loud

The news of you missing

From deep within the crowd

I will forever cling to hope

Watching out the door

Although others try to remind me

That you are for never more.

Written by,

Terry Shepherd

Terry’s Thoughts in Poetry (Facebook Page)

08.23.2014

Out of My League

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Who I am

Now this was by far the most outlandish night I have had in months. I had a dream, as a famous quote was stated; but mine was relevant to, well I don’t even know the answer.

I dreamed I was in my right mind, and the current year; although there were two people from the past in my dream. No one I had ever met, yet surely was familiar with the names.

I spoke to, dined with, and led a life intertwined with these two famous people. Now, for the drum roll please.

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was born in a poor farming family near the poorly marked border between North and South Carolina. Jackson was briefly captured by the British during the American Revolutionary War. He became a lawyer and in 1796 he was in Nashville and helped found the state of Tennessee. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and then to the U. S. Senate, Jackson was in 1801 appointed colonel in the Tennessee Militia. Throughout his lifetime Jackson owned hundreds of slaves who worked on his Hermitage plantation he acquired in 1804.

Also another name familiar to I believe everyone. Abe Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln ⁱ/ˈeɪbrəhæm ˈlɪŋkən/ (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis.^[1]^[2] In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was a self-educated lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the Congress during the 1840s. He promoted rapid modernization of the economy through banks, canals, railroads and tariffs to encourage the building of factories; he opposed the war with Mexico in 1846. After a series of highly publicized debates in 1858, during which Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, he lost the U.S. Senate race to his archrival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party presidential nomination in 1860. With very little support in the slave states, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860. His election prompted seven southern slave states to form the Confederacy before he took the office. No compromise or reconciliation was found regarding slavery.