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96 | PaulMoosberg | TogetherWeReAlone | There is no place or grace, for all the human race
The race of will, to race and kill
As anger fills and kills the thrill
That we hold near and dear, we cherished children fear
The wraith of God, the wraith of man
The wraith of future shines the plan
That we can maul it all, from front to back we saw
The answer ... | alone |
97 | RaviSathasivam | WhenIAmAlone | When I am alone, I think about you
I think how much we are close to each other
even we are far distance
I think our love is in our hearts
I think the good time we've shared together
I think how important you are
I think to share my ideas with you
I think my last dance with you
I think of my last kiss to you
I ... | alone |
98 | RaviSathasivam | WhenIWalkAlone | When I walk alone, I think of you my love
When I walk alone, I walk with broken heart
When I walk alone, I walk with sadness
When I walk alone, I walk with my silent tears
When I walk alone, I walk with my sorrow
When I walk alone, I walk with my sad memories
When I walk alone, I walk with my shattered dream
Whe... | alone |
99 | HABEEBURAHMANThaliyil | YouAloneILoveYoAloneIWorship | You alone I love, you alone I worship. [Poem]
Until I die my breath will guard you,
And my memories after.
In my death none I like to weep for me,
If you shed a dropp of tear, I will sprout again from the mud.
To love you to guard you to serve you.
I am born to love you alone
And I will die for your love too.
I... | alone |
100 | Pdishere | ZzzzzAlone | Will a friend fly here
Among the gulls that glide and cry,
And erase all the mortification
Just to end this life's taxation?
Will a friend float here
Among the waves that rise and fall,
And break upon the rocks
To shatter lies that stand tall?
Will a friend walk here
Among the numerous passerbys
And fight for... | alone |
101 | premjipremji | 056America | Waxing Bodies,
Waning Minds,
Dried up Souls,
Ha...America! | america |
102 | cheungshunsang | 111ChinaSectionEightAsAmericaByCauchy3 | China- section- eight as America!
China section eight is army home.
All committed are ill at houses to whom.
Views on ways are all as congress conga.
Leaders’ cons are all to make the crones.
Female sheep the herbs are sexes to eat.
Lucks at guesses are all for going at.
Sheep in males will drink the shower gold... | america |
103 | RajaramRamachandran | 44VivekanandaReligionInAmerica | Freedom, equality and justice
Had been the most valuable treasures
Cherished in the American hearts
And were the basis of their politics.
Religion also played its vital role,
Well among the American people,
But more than the spiritual progress,
Material value occupied the first place.
The reason was, the tremen... | america |
123 | SandraOsborne | AmericaLivesWrittenAtAge14 | America lives,
For you and for me,
With all she can give,
On land and on sea.
She has a grand flag of red white and blue,
She has her storms her droughts and her showers
She isn’t very old, in fact she’s quite new,
She’s even one of the world great powers.
We have been in many wars, yes so many,
Yet all throug... | america |
224 | RaulLuna | AngelOfLove | Who cut your wings my angel?
Who destroyed your dreams today?
Who kneeled you down to humiliate you?
And who put your soul in a cage?
Let me cure you love
Let me give you my love
Angel of love don't fall down
Don't abandon yourself
Who tied your arms, tied your wish?
Who killed your smile, killed your life?
W... | angel |
104 | PhillisWheatley | AFarewellToAmericaToMrsSW | I.
ADIEU, New-England's smiling meads,
Adieu, the flow'ry plain:
I leave thine op'ning charms, O spring,
And tempt the roaring main.
II.
In vain for me the flow'rets rise,
And boast their gaudy pride,
While here beneath the northern skies
I mourn for health deny'd.
III.
Celestial maid of rosy hue,
O let me ... | america |
105 | AlanSeeger | AMessageToAmerica | You have the grit and the guts, I know;
You are ready to answer blow for blow
You are virile, combative, stubborn, hard,
But your honor ends with your own back-yard;
Each man intent on his private goal,
You have no feeling for the whole;
What singly none would tolerate
You let unpunished hit the state,
Unmindfu... | america |
106 | HughHenryBrackenridge | APoemOnTheRisingGloryOfAmerica | LEANDER.
No more of Memphis and her mighty kings,
Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies.
Taught golden commerce to unfurl her falls,
And bid fair science smile: No more of Greece
Where learning next her early visit paid,
And spread her glories to illume the world,
No more of Athens, where she flourished,
And saw h... | america |
107 | JohnKeats | AProphecyToGeorgeKeatsInAmerica | 'Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen --
For what listen they?
For a song and for a charm,
See they glisten in alarm,
And the moon is waxing warm
To hear what I shall say.
Moon! keep wide thy golden ears --
Hearke... | america |
108 | JOSEMURGUIA | ASoldierToAmerica | I HEAR CRY'S FOR HELP
AND BOMBS EXPLODE,
BUT IM SO FAR AWAY FROM HOME,
AMERICA I STAND HERE ALONE,
FIGHTING FOR PEACE
BUT SO FAR AWAY FROM HOME,
AMERICA I STAND WITH A GUN IN MY HAND,
FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM
WITH OUT A PLAN,
AMERICA DO YOU REALLY NEED ANOTHER WAR,
IM JUST A SOLDIER THAT COULDNT TAKE NO MORE...
... | america |
109 | JohnLyday | America2009 | America has traded in his Mercedes
For a beat up, General Motors car.
It has a fender and door of different colors.
It leaks water, burns oil and won’t go far.
America is standing at unemployment,
all morning, just to see the clerk.
Diligently, he pursues positions,
along with millions looking for work.
America... | america |
110 | WilliamBlake | AmericaAProphecy | The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc,
When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode:
His food she brought in iron baskets, his drink in cups of iron:
Crown'd with a helmet and dark hair the nameless female stood;
A quiver with its burning stores, a bow like that of night,
When pestil... | america |
111 | DelmoreSchwartz | AmericaAmerica | I am a poet of the Hudson River and the heights above it,
the lights, the stars, and the bridges
I am also by self-appointment the laureate of the Atlantic
-of the peoples' hearts, crossing it
to new America.
I am burdened with the truck and chimera, hope,
acquired in the sweating sick-excited passage
in steerag... | america |
112 | JosephAnderson | AmericaAmerica | Sing out! sing out! America,
''Sweet land of liberty;
Tell how we chased the red man
''From sea to shining sea''.
Be proud, stand tall America,
''Home of the free and brave'';
Ignore that angry black man,
Ancestored from a slave.
Sing out! ''This land is your land,
It was made for you and me'',
While toiling ... | america |
113 | JoyceHemsley | AmericaEllisIsland | In days of long ago,
how did Europeans enter America?
I read the history and now I know.
They arrived at Ellis Island
at the mouth of the Hudson River
often on a sunny day, but sometimes
they would shiver.
The Island was given a second name...
'Isle of Tears' as when immigrants
failed the acceptance test, they... | america |
114 | VaranasiRamabrahmam | AmericaEuropeAndAsia | America, Europe and Asia are continents;
The first two interfere devastatingly in the third one's affairs;
Historical accidents helped
Traders turning to colonizers by interfering with Machiavellian tactics
In the local political matters of Asian nations
And settling as ‘rulers'
Being helped by egoistic and ineff... | america |
144 | HerbertNehrlich | AmericaTheGoodNeighbour | It is time that I speak up for what they call America
for a people not appreciated much,
they are generous to all and help the needy near and far
millions gladly felt the good old Yankee touch.
There is Germany and Britain, and Japan and Italy
they were showered with those dollars and forgiven
many debts were can... | america |
115 | HenryVanDyke | AmericaForMe | 'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down
Among the famous palaces and cities of renown,
To admire the crumblyh castles and the statues and kings
But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things.
So it's home again, and home again, America for me!
My heart is turning home again and there I long to ... | america |
116 | EdgarLeeMasters | AmericaIn1804 | (America Conquers Europe.)
Foul shapes that hate the day, again grown bold,
Late driven hence, infested fane and court.
The laurels of our victory were amort.
Vile King-craft with his breed of blood and gold
Took heart to see the ancient wrongs infold
Our life, and childish figments which disport
I' that pale li... | america |
117 | EdgarLeeMasters | AmericaIn1904 | (Europe Conquers America.)
Strong for the strong and in his own conceit;
Half-boy, half-madman, playing with the fire;
Usurper, hoodlum, wed to his desire;
Loud in the hunt--afraid albeit to beat
The wolves which reared him--always with swift feet,
Booted and spurred to huddle in the mire
The malcontents, though... | america |
118 | AntonioLiao | AmericaIsAmerica | America is America the land of the free, born in
the hope of a new world created, amongst men
who believed the vision of liberty and a freedom
to live in this glorious world
as inspired by valued people, created by its natural
landscaping, bounded by principles that to live in
harmony with nature has come to witn... | america |
119 | LonnieHicks | AmericaIsAnIdea | In the Rotations
of the Universe
periodically,
the Destiny Dial clicks
to that space
called Community.
Then all the world
celebrates
and weeps-
tears
which sparkle
and reflect
each hope,
each dream;
when we all plant
our Heart Flower Seeds
in the garden
hoping for the Future
which heals.
Not Miracles... | america |
120 | TradeMartin | AmericaIsInIntensiveCare | America Is In Intensive Care…….,
It’s just clinging to life……,
And its chances are slim and rare……,
Of coming out of the evil in there…..,
Looks like it might wind down……,
To that ‘two thousand twelve year’…….,
The year so many psychics have predicted……..,
And we all gravely fear……,
Still I doubt they’ll be a c... | america |
121 | VelmarPeweeHaleJohnson | AmericaIs | America is red, white, and blue,
the colors that stand so brave, and true.
Men in battle facing death,
Men in the world provoking crime, and theft.
America stand up on your feet,
Hold proudly out the flag, tenderly, and sweet.
America is home of the true,
Of people at peace like me, and you.
Red is for the bloo... | america |
225 | MarieOrtiz | AngelOnYourShoulder | When you think you're all alone
and troubles come your way
There's an angel on your shoulder
To guide you everyday.
With a white light
Shining brightly
To protect you day and night
This angel on your shoulder.
Will never leave your sight. | angel |
124 | FlorenceDSchmalke | AmericaMyCountry | It's great to live in a country big and strong
It doesn't matter if you are young or old
Our thoughts are as good as gold
Where we go on land or sea
We can always be happy and free
Free to express our thoughts and then
Even express them over again
To different people no matter what color or race
In America for ... | america |
125 | AntonioLiao | America | wonderful land that makes
us one
fantastic place where
everyone chases
glorious as it is, a home
where everybody belongs
you have been the pot
of the potter hat
a dream that every race
has raised
alluring to the autumn spring,
where winter awaits the
crystal clear of summer
a beauty that my heart gives
th... | america |
126 | ClaudeMcKay | America | Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,
Giving me strength erect against her hate.
Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.
Yet as a ... | america |
127 | EdgarLeeMasters | America | Glorious daughter of time! Thou of the mild blue eye --
Thou of the virginal forehead --pallid, unfurrowed of tears--
Thou of the strong white hands with fingers dipped in the dye
Of the blood that quickened the fathers of thee, in the ancient years,
Leave thou the path of the beasts. Return thou again to the hills... | america |
128 | GertrudeStein | America | Once in English they said America. Was it English to them.
Once they said Belgian.
We like a fog.
Do you for weather.
Are we brave.
Are we true.
Have we the national colour.
Can we stand ditches.
Can we mean well.
Do we talk together.
Have we red cross.
A great many people speak of feet.
And socks. | america |
129 | GodspowerOshodin | America | America, oh sweet home of mine
Glories beaconing fine
My heart longs for you
Your path way i dream to pass thru.
America, this dwelling of bountiful opportunities
Other lands merging for your treaties.
Beauty of all sought lies in your calling terrain
Eyes for glory can never look in vain.
America, these victor... | america |
130 | GraysonGivens | America | * I am not racist at all**This is how i feel about america**No disrespect to no body*
They call me second class
put chains on me mentally
America has treated me
like a slave
can't even LOVE her cause
she is WHITE
they hate OUR president
because he is BLACK
my own race is like crab in a barrel
mentally
when o... | america |
131 | HenryVanDyke | America | I love thine inland seas,
Thy groves of giant trees,
Thy rolling plains;
Thy rivers' mighty sweep,
Thy mystic canyons deep,
Thy mountains wild and steep,
All thy domains;
Thy silver Eastern strands,
Thy Golden Gate that stands
Wide to the West;
Thy flowery Southland fair,
Thy sweet and crystal air, --
O lan... | america |
132 | HermanMelville | America | I
Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand
I saw a Banner in gladsome air-
Starry, like Berenice's Hair-
Afloat in broadened bravery there;
With undulating long-drawn flow,
As rolled Brazilian billows go
Voluminously o'er the Line.
The Land reposed in peace below;
The children in their glee
Were folded to the e... | america |
208 | JamesHenryLeighHunt | AnAngelInTheHouse | How sweet it were, if without feeble fright,
Or dying of the dreadful beauteous sight,
An angel came to us, and we could bear
To see him issue from the silent air
At evening in our room, and bend on ours
His divine eyes, and bring us from his bowers
News of dear friends, and children who have never
Been dead ind... | angel |
133 | JeanLomaxJackson | America | America! God gave you broadful landings
Designated mountains, valleys, tropics.
With measures of shady green pastures
To keep the Promised Land, Showing. America! God gave you beautiful children
Different races, ethnicities, cultures.
With mixtures of created colors
To keep the Melting Pot, pouring. America! God ... | america |
134 | OliviaTaylor | America | America the beautiful,
America the great,
America suits us all,
America I cannot hate
America we've come so far,
America the free,
If we wish upon a star,
Then that wish shall be | america |
135 | RobertCreeley | America | America, you ode for reality!
Give back the people you took.
Let the sun shine again
on the four corners of the world
you thought of first but do not
own, or keep like a convenience.
People are your own word, you
invented that locus and term.
Here, you said and say, is
where we are. Give back
what we are, the... | america |
136 | SydneyThompsonDobell | America | NOR force nor fraud shall sunder us! O ye
Who north or south, on east or western land,
Native to noble sounds, say truth for truth,
Freedom for freedom, love for love, and God
For God; O ye who in eternal youth
Speak with a living and creative flood
This universal English, and do stand
Its breathing book; live w... | america |
137 | WilliamCullenBryant | America | OH mother of a mighty race,
Yet lovely in thy youthful grace!
The elder dames, thy haughty peers,
Admire and hate thy blooming years.
With words of shame
And taunts of scorn they join thy name.
For on thy cheeks the glow is spread
That tints thy morning hills with red;
Thy step—the wild deer’s rustling feet
Wi... | america |
138 | GregoryCorso | AmericaPoliticaHistoriaInSpontaneity | O this political air so heavy with the bells
and motors of a slow night, and no place to rest
but rain to walk—How it rings the Washington streets!
The umbrella’d congressmen; the rapping tires
of big black cars, the shoulders of lobbyists
caught under canopies and in doorways,
and it rains, it will not let up,
... | america |
139 | JOEPOEWHIT | AmericaPolitico | DEALS, DEALS, DEALS.
Small room, with twelve bathrooms.
Envelopes fill the baskets.
Mirrors with lipstick kisses.
In the small room - elbows bump.
In the office.
OCCUPIED - next bathroom.
Outside neighbors look.
Cesspool trucks arrive.
Dirt cover-up off lid.
Man preys lid open.
Next years news escapes.
CESS... | america |
140 | steveray | AmericaSings | Well I tried to make it sunday, but I got so damn depressed
That I set my sights on monday and I got myself undressed
I ain’t ready for the altar but I do agree there’s times
When a woman sure can be a friend of mine
Well, I keep on thinkin’ ’bout you, sister golden hair surprise
And I just can’t live without you;... | america |
141 | TedSheridan | AmericaTheBeautifulAsASecondLanguage | Who are these immigrants who mow all of this grass
in the medium strips and along the roadsides;
areas that pedestrians don’t use. Whose job is it to fertilize
and maintain this acreage; to kill the clover and dandelion
that constantly flowers. Why is it necessary to beautify
the tedious routes we take to and fro;... | america |
142 | KatharineLeeBates | AmericaTheBeautiful | O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom be... | america |
143 | RayHansell | AmericaTheBeautiful | America The Beautiful
That what the song says
Those words ring loud and true
Every day that I’m alive
I see those words before my eyes
Anywhere I chance to look
In my heart this land will stay
America The Beautiful
Open meadows clear blue skies
Hills all covered green
I have been so many places
There’s much ... | america |
145 | BintaBundu | AmericaTheMeltingPotLand | Their fruits proud and confident with their knowledge of modern technology but,
historically sleeping. For some call America "The Heaven on Earth." This simply means, "As there are many
different ways of dying to go to heaven and so there are many different ways of entering
the United States of America. Since there... | america |
146 | KatharineLeeBates | AmericaToEngland | 1899
Who would trust England, let him lift his eyes
To Nelson, columned o'er Trafalgar Square,
Her hieroglyph of duty, written where
The roar of traffic hushes to the skies;
Or mark, while Paul's vast shadow softly lies
On Gordon's statued sleep, how praise and prayer
Flush through the frank young faces clusteri... | america |
147 | OliverWendellHolmes | AmericaToRussia | AUGUST 5, 1866
THOUGH watery deserts hold apart
The worlds of East and West,
Still beats the selfsame human heart
In each proud Nation's breast.
Our floating turret tempts the main
And dares the howling blast
To clasp more close the golden chain
That long has bound them fast.
In vain the gales of ocean sweep,
... | america |
148 | AldoKraas | AmericaWonT | America won't
Be the same anymore
Because they are fighting
In the Afghanistan
War | america |
149 | JimNorausky | AprilFromCalendarScenicAmericaHaikuVerses | Sunflower legions
lifted on green leafed shoulders
stare dark horizons. | america |
150 | HELENJWILLIAMS | AttackOnAmerica | Another beautiful day i thought as i arose from bed that day,
Not ever knowing things could turn out this distructive way.
As i entered the building with a smile on my face,
And i greeted the friends I, ve made in this place,
A glance at my watch made me quicken my pace.
Up in the elevator to floor 101,
My though... | america |
151 | GeorgeSterling | BeforeDawnInAmerica | Slowly the hours beyond the midnight crawl.
Far on the frozen night a train goes by.
I know there is no starlight in the sky,
But that concealing fog is over all,
Alike for stars and men a somber pall.
Remoter now, a cold, mechanic cry
Is signal, and the poplars stir and sigh,
As ranks that wait in vain the trum... | america |
152 | GraysonGivens | BeingBlackInAmerica | Life is cold
Life is shady
Ima Black in america
still getting treated like a second habd citizen
Life is so unfair
My flow is never heard
Never felt
Cause i am black in america
I study keeping flowing
creating styles
cause I cant stick with one style
But LIFE IS COLD
America still wont let me be happy
unti... | america |
250 | AmandaLukas | GuardianAngel | I owe my every effort to
Her love, everlasting and true.
In her silence, I am able to speak
and see all things beautiful.
She never left me.
She isn't gone.
I walk in solitude,
but never alone.
The angel watches me.
And in my dreams
she visits me
with a smile that's comforting
And in the morning, when I wak... | angel |
4,644 | AldoKraas | TheFutureIsNotOursToSee | The future is not ours to see
Whatever the future
Bring to us
We should be garateful
For that | future |
153 | AnthonyEvanHecht | BirdwatchersOfAmerica | It’s all very well to dream of a dove that saves,
Picasso’s or the Pope’s,
The one that annually coos in Our Lady’s ear
Half the world’s hopes,
And the other one that shall cunningly engineer
The retirement of all businessmen to their graves,
And when this is brought about
Make us the loving brothers of every lo... | america |
154 | juliusthomas | BlackManInAmerica | Black Man In America for to long our chains held us so tight
beaten down as far as the dust chained to the night
Black Man In America can't you see
we free now at least physically
but freedom isn't free if we still enslaved mentally
Black Man In America stand up and let your voices be heard your families are calli... | america |
155 | MarilynLott | BloodOfAmerica | A senseless act of hatred can change
Everything in a horrifying minute
It is impossible to understand
And so many lives are destroyed with it
Lives of wonderful cherished folks
Who tried to do what was right
And then it was suddenly over
There was never even a fight
We ask God to help us understand
What could ... | america |
156 | JimNorausky | CalendarScenicAmericaHaikuVersesEachMonth | My wish for today:
that poet friends were viewing
this, coffee in hand.
January
Vibrant cherries shine
ice covered branches glimmer
muted background same.
February
Sun swept red mountains
guard crowded boat marina
masts and poles worship.
March
Angry beach and sky
huge wave crashing red lighthouse
birds, ... | america |
157 | GeorgeBarker | CircularFromAmerica | Against the eagled
Hemisphere
I lean my eager
Editorial ear
And what the devil
You think I hear?
I hear the Beat
No not of the heart
But the dull palpitation
Of the New Art
As, on the dead tread,
Mill of no mind,
It follows its leaders
Unbeaten behind.
O Kerouac Kerouac
What on earth shall we do
If a si... | america |
158 | UdiahwitnesstoYah | ConceptOfAmericaAmericaAmericaAmericaAmericaAmerica | People united
To secure their liberty
Out of many, one
I've written a letter for anyone who cares where this great country of ours is heading. It has bothered some on this poetry sight so much they have had it removed from the search engine, despite my many attempts at restoring it. Why do they allow certain autho... | america |
159 | FrederickKesner | CrossroadsOfAmerica | Crossroads of this brave New World:
tiring - perhaps no longer young
Big city, rural city? central point -
refreshing - this nation's innovative belly
city of indigenous America, cosmopolitan
reflective - luminescent in waning light
hopeful in the new day dawning bright
still movement, raucous plains of crop
Gr... | america |
251 | JosephTRenaldi | GuardianAngel | You never stand alone
When your guardian angel is always near,
During the moments of trials and tribulation,
You will never be overcome with fear.
His presence may not be seen,
Regardless of where you are,
Rest assured that his halo is always shining
Like the brightest, heavenly star.
You never stand alone,
Wh... | angel |
6,748 | AldoKraas | TheMonthOfJune | The month of June
Doesn't wait for me anymore
Because it comes and goes
And everyday is a different day on the June calendar
But I don't mind it at all | june |
160 | JamesKennethStephen | EnglandAndAmerica | 1. ON A RHINE STEAMER.
Republic of the West,
Enlightened, free, sublime,
Unquestionably best
Production of our time.
The telephone is thine,
And thine the Pullman Car,
The caucus, the divine
Intense electric star.
To thee we likewise owe
The venerable names
Of Edgar Allan Poe,
And Mr. Henry James.
In short... | america |
161 | KatharineLeeBates | EnglandToAmerica | And what of thee, O Lincoln's Land? What gloom
Is darkening above the Sunset Sea?
Vowed Champion of Liberty, deplume
Thy war-crest, bow thy knee,
Before God answer thee.
What talk is thine of rebels? Didst thou turn,
My very child, thy vaunted sword on me,
To scoff to-day at patriot fires that burn
In hearts un... | america |
162 | UdiahwitnesstoYah | GodBlessUsAmericaAmericaAmericaAmericaAmerica | O Lord, our refuge and strength
When it's 'in God we trust'
The foe has struck your firstborn
With a great infamous thrust
Like history repeated
A Trojan Horse await
To massacre the blameless
A 'Nine-eleven' fate
They've dared defy an army
That does proclaim you Lord
Deliver US from their hand
Whet your glit... | america |
163 | winterlees | GodBlessedAmerica | god blessed america when he made the earth
god blessed america when he sent his son to sacrifise
god blessed america when he made us and
god blessed america when he made you | america |
164 | TradeMartin | IBelieveInAmerica | I Believe In America…., we’re a nation of hopes and dreams…..,
Sweet freedom will fill our needs…., I Believe In America.
I Believe In America…., I believe we must fight for peace….,
My faith in us will never cease…., I Believe In America.
With His strength from up above…,
We’ll prevail on our massive quest…,
Our... | america |
165 | WaltWhitman | IHearAmericaSinging | I Hear America singing, the varied carols I hear;
Those of mechanics--each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong;
The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work;
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat--the... | america |
166 | TheresaMLeicht | IKnowADreamCalledAmerica | I know a dream called America -
That led to freedom - our precious -
freedom. That was won - That was won -
through - loneliness - hunger - blood-
Sweat - and tears. By your christian forefathers - who
Fought on with determination - through
The night - and through the day - till
The war was won. In the cold - co... | america |
167 | VaidaMarea | ITooSingAmericaInspiredByLangstonHughes | I, too, sing America
The melody is quiet but still passes my lips
I am the elusive ingenue
The restless whisper of a wood nymph
You can hardly tell I'm there
Waiting quietly in my shell
For the right moment to emerge. | america |
168 | D├│nallDempsey | IWantToBeInAmerica | First
one
foot
then gingerly
the other
steps
from
the swivel
chair
to the table top
where blindly you
fiddle with the slats
caught - now - un-caught -
still sleepy
I turn to see you
naked against
skyscrapers
& mewing like a kitty
stuck up a tree.
'Help ne... help me
down! '
as the swivel chair
spi... | america |
169 | NikunjSharma | ItsAmericaYouFool | Baby boomers were cool;
Now Ninjas rule.
It’s America you fool.
Junk food;
Was cool dude.
Only joys no sorrow;
They consumed as if; no tomorrow.
Sub standard education;
In their social school.
Still; Its America you fool.
Dubya's wars;
Permanent scars.
Russia's gone;
Iraq stumped.
Against tough times;
Th... | america |
170 | LangstonHughes | LetAmericaBeAmericaAgain | Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
Th... | america |
171 | GeorgeMeredith | LinesToAFriendVisitingAmerica | I
Now farewell to you! you are
One of my dearest, whom I trust:
Now follow you the Western star,
And cast the old world off as dust.
II
From many friends adieu! adieu!
The quick heart of the word therein.
Much that we hope for hangs with you:
We lose you, but we lose to win.
III
The beggar-king, November, fr... | america |
172 | WaltWhitman | LongTooLongAmerica | Long, too long America,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
(For who except myself... | america |
173 | PhillisWheatley | OnBeingBroughtFromAfricaToAmerica | 'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
"Their colour is a diabolic die."
Remember, Christians, Negro's, black as Cain,
May be refin'd, ... | america |
174 | WaltWhitman | OneSongAmericaBeforeIGo | ONE song, America, before I go,
I'd sing, o'er all the rest, with trumpet sound,
For thee--the Future.
I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality;
I'd fashion thy Ensemble, including Body and Soul;
I'd show, away ahead, thy real Union, and how it may be accomplish'd.
(The paths to the House I seek to make,
B... | america |
175 | RichardBrautigan | Part10OfTroutFishingInAmerica | WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING
IN AMERICA PEACE
In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a
trout fishing in America peace parade. They had thousands
of red stickers printed and they pasted them on their small
foreign cars, and on means of national communication like
telephone poles.
The stickers had WI... | america |
176 | RichardBrautigan | Part1OfTroutFishingInAmerica | THE COVER FOR
TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA
The cover for Trout Fishing in America is a photograph taken
late in the afternoon, a photograph of the Benjamin Franklin
statue in San Francisco's Washington Square.
Born 1706--Died 1790, Benjamin Franklin stands on a
pedestal that looks like a house containing stone furnit... | america |
177 | RichardBrautigan | Part2OfTroutFishingInAmerica | ANOTHER METHOD
OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP
And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in America
as if Trout Fishing in America were a rich gourmet and
Trout Fishing in America had Maria Callas for a girlfriend
and they ate together on a marble table with beautiful candles.
Compote of Apples
Take a dozen of... | america |
178 | RichardBrautigan | Part3OfTroutFishingInAmerica | SEA, SEA RIDER
The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a
three-legged crow on the dandelion side of the mountain.
He was, of course, a Jew, a retired merchant seaman
who had been torpedoed in the North Atlantic and floated
there day after day until death did not want him. He had a
young wife, a ... | america |
209 | GuardedHeart | AnAngelOfADifferentKind | Maybe I have wings
That only need to stretch
For you to see them
The wings that you may see
Are not of the brightest white
But of black with hints of red
I’m not the fairy light of innocence
I don’t shine with unnatural brightness
My thoughts are not the purest
I’m an angel of a different kind
Not the one tha... | angel |
179 | RichardBrautigan | Part4OfTroutFishingInAmerica | THE AUTOPSY OF
TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA
This is the autopsy of Trout Fishing in America as if Trout
Fishing in America had been Lord Byron and had died in
Missolonghi, Greece, and afterward never saw the shores
of Idaho again, never saw Carrie Creek, Worsewick Hot
Springs, Paradise Creek, Salt Creek and Duck Lake... | america |
180 | RichardBrautigan | Part5OfTroutFishingInAmerica | WORSEWICK
Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some
boards across the creek. That was it.
The boards dammed up the creek enough to form a huge
bathtub there, and the creek flowed over the top of the boards,
invited like a postcard to the ocean a thousand miles away.
As I said Worsewick was nothin... | america |
181 | RichardBrautigan | Part6OfTroutFishingInAmerica | THE HUNCHBACK TROUT
The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew
too close together. The creek was like 12, 845 telephone
booths in a row with high Victorian ceilings and all the doors
taken off and all the backs of the booths knocked out.
Sometimes when I went fishing in there, I felt just like a
te... | america |
182 | RichardBrautigan | Part7OfTroutFishingInAmerica | THE PUDDING MASTER OF
STANLEY BASIN
Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the
lake promised us eternity, but the lake itself was filled with
thousands of silly minnows, swimming close to the shore
and busy putting in hours of Mack Sennett time.
The minnows were an Idaho tourist attraction. They
... | america |
183 | RichardBrautigan | Part8OfTroutFishingInAmerica | A RETURN TO THE COVER OF
THIS BOOK
Dear Trout Fishing in America:
I met your friend Fritz in Washington Square. He told me
to tell you that his case went to a jury and that he was acquit-
ted by the jury.
He said that it was important for me to say that his case
went to a jury and that he was acquitted by the ju... | america |
184 | RichardBrautigan | Part9OfTroutFishingInAmerica | SANDBOX MINUS JOHN
DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT?
Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America. I
took the baby and went down there this morning. They were
watering the cover with big revolving sprinklers. I saw some
bread lying on the grass. It had been put there to feed the
pigeons.
The old Italians are alw... | america |
185 | EllaWheelerWilcox | SongOfAmerica | And now, when poets are singing
Their songs of olden days,
And now, when the land is ringing
With sweet Centennial lays,
My muse goes wandering backward,
To the groundwork of all these,
To the time when our Pilgrim Fathers
Came over the winter seas.
The sons of a mighty kingdom,
Of a cultured folk were they;
... | america |
186 | UdiahwitnesstoYah | TheDeclarationOfIndependenceAmericaAmericaAmericaAmericaAmerica | Once a shiny nation was established ‘cross the sea
Smelted out of blood and sweat, to guarantee all men be free
Escaping religious tyranny, they traveled to a new land so
That their future generations could worship God you know
As the promises of freedom did themselves unwind
The colonies together, forged a new do... | america |
187 | RosannaEleanorLeprohon | TheEmigrantsAddressToAmerica | All hail to thee, noble and generous Land!
With thy prairies boundless and wide,
Thy mountains that tower like sentinels grand,
Thy lakes and thy rivers of pride!
Thy forests that hide in their dim haunted shades
New flowers of loveliness rare—
Thy fairy like dells and thy bright golden glades,
Thy warm skies as... | america |
188 | HerbertNehrlich | TheFallOfAmerica | McCain, McCain, you are running in vain!
And you are in this national drama,
how hillariously (!) funny and a little insane,
cheer the pigmented warrior Obama.
In the background old Bill, who is over the hill
lusts to get a new student like 'winsky,
with a Cuban cigar and a muffin to fill
like a film by directo... | america |
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