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Across The Plains

September 8, 2009
By Banuelos BRONZE, Wolfforth, Texas
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Blue sky warm sunny day
Thousands screaming below earth trembles with might
Loud pop, falls another buffalo

Across the valley through earth
There stood more than one man again
Crying Alamo charging to death


Madam pours rivers out eyes
There he laid without one word
Blood poor from his wound

© Hilary L., Oakhurst, CA

The author's comments:
It gives the reader a taste of life in the west back in the old days.
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