Best Banner Poems

A drapery flutters of sunlit glory
With lustrous stars gleaming near;
Hovering  around  the ‘ Pearl of Orient ‘
Where seven thousand islands adorn
Tints of liberty, peace, and independence;
Radiant in hues… crimson, blue, white
Flaming the hearts of a race blessed
By lush rice terrains and summer winds.

O,...

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When lives are broken and worlds fall apart,
there is a healer and restorer of the wounded heart.

When you carry your burdens well into the night,
 his yoke is easy and his burden is light.

If you call on his name, he will be there,
 he will...

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Francis Scott Key: 
“O say, does that Star - Spangled Banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”

The Answer:

Yes, Mr. Key, the Star - Spangled Banner still waves
Over that magical land expansive oceans away.
True, its residents are as free...

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“A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half-remembered glory.”

“A strong man makes a weak people. A strong people don’t need a strong man.”
John Steinbeck (Nobel Prize 1962)

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We clad ourselves in colors as we march,
saluting independence through a foggy dream;
gazing at the night alight with flashes,
sparkles,
and firefly screams.

Rockets made in China, cascade/
to the backdrop of the Star Spangled Banner;
a flutter to the wind blown flags made in Brazil
and "I Love America Pins"...

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~*~
~~**~~
star spangled banner
standing tall for all to see
the flag of freedom
~~**~~
~*~


U.S.A.
Warner Baxter...

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History of the Star Spangle Banner
 Maybe idea of Major George Armistead
  The glory of Americans who scan her
   Of Mary Pickersgill she was begat

   The creation of the original flag
  Be still a subject highly debated
 Mary Pickersgill...

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III

What shame if might measures not with muscle?
  What disgrace awaits those who fail?
Should wanting life be held lèse-majesté to a tussle?
  Should a nation thrive as in a sundered jail?

To the high nor low slams the door
  To him who seeks...

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Art in its truest form is
in the eye of the beholder
No two see a like
Each one has their own passion
what touches them is
different from what the 
rest of the world beholds
For me beauty it is in 
singing the Star Spangled
Banner and watching 
people of all...

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Since I was a small child and would try to sing,
when we rise and sing the praises of "Old Glory,"
it brings tears to my eyes. Maybe it's because we
have endured much to keep our flag flying--too
many wars, too many injured, too many dead.
Or, perhaps, in...

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Oh, say can you see by the Lord's holy light
Who so proudly we nailed to Golgotha's cursed tree?
Whose back stripes and white scars from betrayal's delight
Oh the pain he endured was for our hope and healing
Then the angels declared he was no longer there
The grave...

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Blessed Banner You Carry Forth

I was lost in field of dreams,
An echo in howling night winds:
I found my way again despite,
dark and gnarly twisting bends,
of shrill lost cries giving deep fright.

You alone, lit my long path,-
from whence you came I do not know:
In darkness, your...

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I used to be a bully who had really bad manners.
I learned that it's a bad idea to beat up David Banner.
He turned into the Hulk who was green.
It was the scariest thing I've ever seen.
He picked me up and threw me through a door.
I...

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Along the pavement,
on a lonely night,
I could see,
not a soul in sight.

Dark and empty,
not a sound to hear,
Just a solitary
atmosphere.

Suddenly behind myself,
a tapping I hear !
I froze in my tracks,
and trembled in fear !

I dared not turn,
I dared not see,
I was terrified 
of what it...

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I don't excel at life because of modesty and honesty,
there are other reasons, aspects, and perceptions I decry;
my true self is that banner of moral victory I expose to anybody,
although I've been laughed at and shunned by an unsensible society.

It surprises me that the poorest
have...

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