He came bearing
a polished memoir,
wrapped in the grammar of duty,
stitched carefully
with the threads of allegiance.
The pages marched proudly—
disciplined, measured,
dressed in the language
of statecraft and survival.
Yet beneath the polished sentences,
ghosts wandered barefoot.
The ashes still remembered
the names of children
history buried too quickly.
Mothers still carried
silence like broken calabashes
upon their heads.
And the rivers of the East—
they have not forgotten.
For memory is stubborn.
It sleeps lightly.
It wakes
at the sound of old justifications.
He spoke of unity,
of difficult choices,
of burdens carried
for the preservation of a nation.
But nations are not preserved
by eloquence alone.
Sometimes history kneels,
not for defense,
but for repentance.
And so the book arrived
like rain that touched the earth
without entering it.
For many sons and daughters
of the red soil,
it sounded less
like a full reckoning
and more
like a door left half-open—
an incomplete confession
standing quietly
before a wounded generation
still waiting
for language heavy enough
to carry sorrow.
‘I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,’
Where elephants and donkeys in the media prompt hysteria,
‘And to the Republic for which it stands,’
Devotion lies in political assassinations if one doesn’t comply or withstand,
‘One Nation under God,’
Whilst following religious law and trading faith for facade,
‘Indivisible,’
Indefensible,
‘With liberty and justice for all,’
With negligence for protocol.
Between two. Liberties I stand
The resolute desk
Ladies and Gentlemen
Of the jury
Pledge allegiance to a new flag,
of these United States being run by
the MAG..
Once a nation under God,
now being led by a demagogue..
Pledge allegiance to the man,
with his ever growing Trump brand.
As autocracy reigns from sea to sea,
let the rich and the powerful
rewrite our history.
Caitlin Clark this, Caitlin Clark that
your name is magic, you're the Cat in the Hat
You’ve got folks so mesmerized
they don’t see you’re undersized
In a tizzy, fans shell out their dough
Don’t they know you’re skinny and slow
Over you the media's ablaze
all they print's effusive praise
Yet not a word about this corker
~ your new pro team is mediocre
A union in ourselves flags wave
Unite in freedom, die in vain
House divided, republican it saids stand
One nation, under God; only good rules
A stand for liberty as we ourselves
A pledge allegiance, even it had meaning
Allies of ancestry roll in their graves
Destroy the world, people want say
Greed corrupts while people hunger in streets
North, South, across the world calls for truths
Centuries of wars fault, devotion same cause
Live life, be free, walk the lands barefoot
Now people wants us kneel, say things ok
Just turn a head while terrorist hearts rain
Even in war soldiers die just so freedom rings
Even for the right cause we fail to unite
We bury another as if we ourselves pull trigger
Pledge Allegiance, a vow; an oath worth living
Many cross boarders fleeing to be free
From mankind's killings and sinful ways
Pledge Allegiance, only knee I take God I pray
For peace and liberty, justice people cry
But close an eye to moderate centrism
To stand a nation, you first got rid what's wrong
Even the innocent die while people take control
Now, why a meeting of adults
Should open with the pledge
Is something that feels wrong to me
And sets my teeth on edge.
As children, we recited it
Assembly days in school
And when I taught, each morning
In the classroom was the rule.
Just like the anthem, kids should learn
The words that we recite
On those occasions when it is
Appropriate and right.
To me, a meeting of the board
Where I retain a home
Is not one of those times and that’s
The reason for this poem.
I pledge allegiance to a dream
embodied in the fabric of a flag.
A flag imbued with hope
tarnished by fear
bloodied of necessity.
This flag, this weary tattered symbol
of what we strive to be.
Countless men and women
have bled, grieved, died
not to glorify a symbol
but to defend an idea, an ideal
keep our fragile hopes alive
make our dreaming possible.
This flag does not speak
It needs our voices
It does not weep
It needs our tears
It does not forget
it must mourn
those who swore allegiance
to its dreams.
John G. Lawless
©7/2/2022
I pledge allegiance
To my job
And to the 40 hour work week
And to the taxes
I must pay
Until one day
I retire
Feeling miserable
With a bad back
And most my good years gone
grand says, “come and see!”
hummingbirds attracted to
stars stripes red white blue
9/5/2020
Declare your allegiance in this separated world
Led by deliberate ignorance chomping on gold
Lining up for your turn based on your make believe sin
Punishments justified and blamed on your skin
Safe at their table where everything is pale
One hand grasps a gavel, the other the holy grail
Your existence an annoyance, a flea or a gnat
Demanding you retreat and scat like a rat
Freedom is preached in Red White and Blue
Only if your flesh holds no tinge of color or hue
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
And to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God
With liberty and justice for all."
Some of our later founding fathers.
Love in Christ Jesus!
Submitted by Roxanne Lea Dubarry
Roxy Lea 1954
Roxy 1954/ October Country
June 25, 2020
The Lord Jesus Christ spoke to me and gave me specific instructions. Number one I was to post The Pledge of Allegiance on all of my websites. Number two was to post the Lord's prayer also. My latest instruction was to post the 23rd Psalm.
The Lord's prayer
Our father who art in heaven
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on
Earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts as
We forgive our debtors. And
Lead us not unto temptation.
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
And the power and the
glory forever.
by Jesus Christ!
Love in Christ Jesus!
Submitted by Roxanne Lea Dubarry
Roxy Lea 1954
Roxy 1954/ October Country
June 25, 2020
M-ight is not in height,
V-ictory is completely
G-ained through strong firm faith.
Topic: Birthday of Mirasol V. Gracilla (March 7)
Form: Haikustic
I pledge allegiance to the earth,
and every single inhabitant that occupies it,
and in harmony with nature intelligently manage its resources,
the common rightful global heritage of all of us.
We must all declare the earth and all of its resources,
all of the earth's inhabitant's rightful heritage.
If we don't we will continue to have and create more problems,
that will ultimately end with our own self destruction.
We must all radically change our present way of thinking,
and develop a value system that is not at all profit driven,
but rather a system that motivates and promotes to all sincere compassion,
which in turn would promote and provide everyone a higher standard of living.
I have no allegiance to any president, any country or anybody.
I pledge allegiance to the earth, the common rightful heritage of everybody.
D-edicate
Y-our
L-ife
A-nd
N-ever
R-elinquish
E-arnest
N-ifty
C-ommitment
H-aving
E-mployed
V-ery
A-mazing
N-oble
C-onstancy
U-nder
L-egitimate
L-oyal
A-llegiance
Topic: Birthday of Dylan Rench E. Evanculla (July 03)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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