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America is Beautiful
5/12/01
America is beautiful.
Yet beauty is only skin deep
and found in the eye of the beholder.
America’s skin is many things
and is decidedly thick.
While the human creature
has a dermis of seven layers,
the creature, America,
has many more.
First, and outermost,
comes the Constitution.
Then, a separate a distinct dermis
for each of the Bill of Rights
and supporting amendments.
The beauty of America runs
as deep as its parchment.
The tree of America
has a sparse crown
and full body.
Three branches support
all other systems:
Executive, Legislative
and Judicial.
One common ancestor
of all challenges us to
“be all we can be.”
Uncle Sam dons his red,
white and blue top hat and tails
and rudely points at the people
of this country
in the armed force’s entreaty.
Historical landmarks
rock at Plymouth
and Liberty cracks her Bell.
Symbols abound in the banner,
star-spangled,
and each state’s flower and bird.
The Republic battle hymns
for the National Anthem.
The land of the free
and the home of the brave
refers to more than the natives
and their reservations.
It is the home to the melting
and the pot to all.
© 2001 Vickie Knight
America is Beautiful
5/12/01
America is beautiful.
Yet beauty is only skin deep
and found in the eye of the beholder.
America’s skin is many things
and is decidedly thick.
While the human creature
has a dermis of seven layers,
the creature, America,
has many more.
First, and outermost,
comes the Constitution.
Then, a separate a distinct dermis
for each of the Bill of Rights
and supporting amendments.
The beauty of America runs
as deep as its parchment.
The tree of America
has a sparse crown
and full body.
Three branches support
all other systems:
Executive, Legislative
and Judicial.
One common ancestor
of all challenges us to
“be all we can be.”
Uncle Sam dons his red,
white and blue top hat and tails
and rudely points at the people
of this country
in the armed force’s entreaty.
Historical landmarks
rock at Plymouth
and Liberty cracks her Bell.
Symbols abound in the banner,
star-spangled,
and each state’s flower and bird.
The Republic battle hymns
for the National Anthem.
The land of the free
and the home of the brave
refers to more than the natives
and their reservations.
It is the home to the melting
and the pot to all.
© 2001 Vickie Knight
posted by Vickie at 1:26 PM
2 Comments:
I started to say something about cliches there at the beginning, but for a piece 4 years old, I think it's pretty damned good. Few of my pieces from 4 years ago are allowed to see the light of day lol.
Four years ago, I would have appreciated those comments. I did get a t-shirt out of this poem though. I just thought it was appropriate for the 4th.
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