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Best Fourth Of July Poems

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Premium Member Fourth of July
Fourth of July, Independence Day for the United States, and
On the news political speeches praising the nations heritage, then
Reading of the declaration in deep proud...

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Categories: fourth of july, celebration, firework, history, patriotic,
Form: Acrostic



This Fourth of July
This 4th Of July

To my fellow Americans, 
during this 4th of July.
I have a thought.. . Here's why…

When we salute our flag
 ever so grand.
Our...

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Categories: fourth of july, america, freedom, holiday, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Think of You - After the Fall - 5
I could have cried like a bride at a funeral
Bled out, dry. I could have but I was already
dehydrated...I

i think of you

I wish someone could...

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Categories: fourth of july, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ice Cube Pie
I always wanted two slices of ice cube pie
“You only get one”, was the standard reply.
I don’t know why I did
But since I was a...

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Categories: fourth of july, business, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Memories
Life was harsh for me
very harsh from the beginning, in the little village in Greece.
We hardly had anything to eat because everything was
destroyed by WW2...

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Categories: fourth of july, courage, god, life, memory,
Form: Bio



Premium Member Summer
For children, summer is swing sets and slides,
ice cream or snow cones, carnival rides,
the school bell’s last ring as kids flee the school,
hot dogs at...

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Categories: fourth of july, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Missing Mom
(Just my 3rd submission. Don't worry, I won't number everyone of them! Just so that readers are aware that I am new to writing, and...

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© James Lutz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fourth of july, death, mom, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Adult Content : Then I Do It
This recently happened to me.
I didn’t recover very well from it. 
I just sat there
naked, 
embarrassed, 
while 
while my partner got dressed 
and walked out...

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Categories: fourth of july, candy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Here's a Toast To You America
Here's a toast to you America on this glorious Fourth of July!
May the grand old flag, the emblem of our nation, ever wave on high!
As...

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Categories: fourth of july, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Malkavian the Second
The constant assault of the silence on his senses is intense 
Hands clenched in fist he wished for noise and bliss
Buddy stopped talking and drinking...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fourth of july, dark, drug,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Independence
In many ways Canadians are very different
Not in the ways that matter the most
Disappointments won't keep us down
Easy is not a part of our vocabulary...

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Categories: fourth of july, blessing, friendship,
Form: Acrostic
The Perils of the Ghetto
Soft silhouettes sashay by my window
Grievingly gazing out unto a world of which you may never know
Linen curtains briefly ruffled in the breeze
Old drunken Julius...

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Categories: fourth of july, life, people, sorry, world,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Paprika
bursting hot bubbling like lava
oh most sacred shade of sacral chakra’s bloom
chrysanthemum petals burst
like fireworks on the fourth of July
and so none can deny the...

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Categories: fourth of july, allegory, imaginationpower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fireworks
We gape at the sky
this Fourth of July,
as rockets ignite
to deal us delight,
while strangers unite.

I’m such a dope,
it gives me hope
that Nations torn
can be reborn.

Let...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fourth of july, freedom, july,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Premium Member Me and My Pal the Mushroom King
Walking in the woods on a summers day
I ran across the savvy mushroom king
The old tight-wad geezer wanted to play
I played him checkers and a...

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Categories: fourth of july, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme Royal

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