okay. well, this is a poem I wrote sometime last year in class. I then got a friend to read it in front of the class when a teacher asked. I had to beg the friend to give me a copy for this blog, so be happy to read it! I just thought it was appropriate, with the election and all coming up.
United, Divided
the sun rises over
a blue and red land
from coast to coast
the beautiful
united we stand
the slogan of
our perseverance
divided we fall.
so why do we divide
things into blue and red
donkey elephant
black white we are same.
united we stand
the slogan of
so many wars
divided we fall.
so why do we divide
a state from another?
so close in reality, and
not so different really.
united we stand
the slogan of
what we hold dear
divided we fall.
so why do we divide
the blessings of liberty
into immigrants and those
who are merely older immigrants?
united we stand
the slogan of
a Mexican wall
divided we fall.
so why do we divide
what should not
be divided
or black and white?
united we stand
the slogan of
a rising sun, but no
and yes, divided we fall.
so united we stand
on this oh so grand
red white blue land
stand hand in hand
as the sun rises.
3 comments:
Beautiful. I like the way the end switches from the established pattern of the rest of the poem with the line "as the sun rises". The whole thing is like a pledge. In a sense, it reminds me of the pledge of allegiance. You ask simple, but very poignant questions.
thank you. i just thought it was appropriate.
So often this seems to be the way, we often focus on our differences instead of what unites us, thank for your insights.
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