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Music often speaks for us when we have no words.
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Anthem for the heart
By Michelle Morris
01/01/2023

This is not...

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Raise an anthem to them
The torrentuos folks in their prime
Take your pen in hands
Let it flow freely on a book
Write of the bliss and diss
Of...

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Beautiful black woman Angela Davis
Stood by herself
At the 50 yard line
A football crooked on a tee
At her feet

Waiting

And she sang the national anthem
To an empty...

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I hear the captain’s shouted battle cries
on the bellow and stalked battlefield
But nether faith or death I'll yield
While for the dead I sympathize.

I hear faint...

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How loud the anthem played
 with soldiers on parade
off to some foreign land
 helping a new nation take a stand.

Wars lag on 
 easily forgotten...

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Fifty States United
In an healthy Zone
Everyone is different
But proud to call it home
Children are singing
As they grow
So all the world
Will hear and know
There shall always...

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Note the clear strains from our school days,
Align with times of growing up;
Touch feels fine gains in words that stay,
Indulge sweet chimes that fill our...

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A Traveller's Anthem

So much in verse, so unlike prose
A marvelous gift to each of those
Who revel in it's glory

Yet here I am, mere mortal man
Inspired...

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“All poetry soup members stand for a moment of reverence and silence”

Au Soupe du jour our native site stands free
God bless our site in truth...

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There is nothing like one’s home – 
A haven which flows with milk and honey,
A home built by hands from holy heaven
Which we bought not...

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NATIONAL ANTHEM

“O‘er the land of the free and the home of the brave”
Written by Francis Scott Key, 1814 Maryland Lawyer.  Adopted by Congress as...

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Entice the essence of the word 
A lexicon of value heard 
A luxury of words astute 
With salutation and salute 

Inside this circle, only squares...

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Chilled from the midnight cold,
as I stroll wrapped in cavalier,
wondering if the world has something to spare,
But life once was...
a beautiful pasifier we all use,
can...

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CHORUS:
And we so long clothed in night
Will cross with angels the river bright
And pass beyond the gates of light
To eat of the tree of immortal...

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- Truth
Remember the truth,
Question those in government…
In full glory reflected.

- Mistake
To war is error,
To offer peace is sublime…
Bombs bursting in air.

- Belief
No matter how hard,
Stand...

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