Best Landmark Poems
THE ANCIENT LANDMARK - "Remove not the ancient landmark which Your Father has set" Proverbs 22:28
The cornerstone is set,
In place for all to see.
One nation Under god,
Forever it will be.
Founding Fathers showed the way,
Free people need to be.
Boundaries within morality,
Only God can set you free.
Navigation points for life,
Set down for one and all.
Move them and you lose,
The beginning of your fall.
Life is a dangerous terrain,
Our culture demands the best.
Stray at your peril,
For then you fail the test.
Confusion and darkness,
Will then guide your way.
When you move the boundary stone,
You leave our Lord and stray.
We have traded liberty,
For government's open hand.
We depend on them to live,
Alone we cannot stand.
Moral, ethical and spiritual,
Our navigation hopelessly lost.
The devastation now begins,
Patriotism has been tossed.
We are duped, with miss-leading news,
Political correctness from birth.
Seek you now the Landmark,
Ours is the greatest land on earth.
RAYMOND V. MORGAN
That timetables rapt familiarized discern
resolves transmitting rumors, my befriend
dysfunctions with misgivings, halting's bend
and circumvents a standstill toward no end!
While oppositions furthering's belief
beginning's placate, anchoring's achieve
and dormancy becomes a truth's bereave,
life's reconciling justice to perceive!
All told, involuntary atmospheric sieve,
the matters decimating planning's blind
are flushed away, as truth's fulfilled contend
perniciously is focused to amend!
The timeless trust, no telltale virtue's send
can irritate or spill the hope's distend
hurt's mortifying gospels' spoken trends
are turned to Love, by faith's conspired extend!
This standstill wavers not with jury's press
the voice of legal cost must so address
some epilogue of change, not chance's duress
must gravitate consideration's bless!
Trial of Standing Bear, Ponca Indian Chief. On May 12, 1879
Chief Standing Bear held out his hand to Judge Elmer Dundy
and pleaded for recognition of his humanity ~
"My hand is not the color of yours, but if I pierce it, I shall feel pain.
If you pierce your hand, you will feel pain. The blood that will flow
from mine will be of the same color as yours. I AM A MAN.
The same God made us both."
Go to www.poncatribeofnebraska.com and read legacy manuscripts
written by Thomas Henry Tibbles ~ and most definitely visit upper
Northeast Nebraska on the Niobrara and Missouri Rivers.
An escape from the congested world
Of routine or great expectations
The waterfall becomes
An outstanding landmark
To our eyes and our souls
The waterfall rushes down
From the heaven
A symbol of
Vigour and life
Confidence
Determination
Perseverance
And truths
It splashes to form
Pearly sprays and circling ripples
It gives hopes
To the hearts and the souls
Of nature lovers and philosophers
when the stars first formed in an unlit sky,
i opened my eyes and wondered why.
when the weather turned and scooped me up,
i flew and swam and never looked back.
when the sun beat fast and lightning flashed,
i laughed at the madness as my dreams were smashed.
but when the first flowers opened and i saw the colour blue,
i cried with joy at the thought of you.
There is that tree I ate from as a child
But cannot recognize again
Who planted it? What season will the leaves,
Foolish like a cotton candy clown,
Seduce my tongue to chase
Deprived succulence of fruit or flower?
I could wither things in a foreign place
But this home,
Why am I sensed as such an alien here?
The tree and I
Have a common bond,
An aniquity of inadequacy; a man's native home
Should be as simple as his native land -
O that I could be born again there,
The first place of my ancestors' first tear!
We do not cry
Until we lose ourselves in the emptinesss of our being,
I know, I know, I know!
That pain has an echo,
A ghost that haunts the tree with fictive green:
See, only superficially we can belong.
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A landmark is not
For things we lost, but the self
That we cannot find
Those things that we mark
Are always there, but we stray
In new memory
The ones they create
For people displaced like sand dunes
In the void of faith.
Our landmarks written on the platter of gold
Were freedoms and rights our father fought for
Through as interesting tales we were told
But not clinging to them will amount to fall.
Our landmarks a collection of virtues born out of vices:
Traditions sealed with humility out of humiliation
Though many fall ou5t of it by taking chances
They latter find their lot in the pit of destruction.
Our landmarks painted with pure blood shed and disgraced:
Cultures delivered to us to trade and profit with
The truth and tower entrenched therein cannot be replaced
By it will our eyes will salvation see
Our ancient landmarks molded by the gifted hands of old
Many of it I seem not to understand
Line upon line I learn to love what it holds
And by it I learned in storm to always stand
Our landmark: the footprint of our heroes past
The foundations of our great fatherland
Our portion while our souls last
And for our children it will be a royal standard.
gold leaf Renaissance clock
a rare but unique landmark beauty,
giving us the time in Roman numerals
who can read such a clock?
such intricate details
her clockmaker was brilliant
In Landmark College's hallowed city,
Knowledge flourishes with simplicity,
Learners absorb with eager facility,
Blended curriculum, a harmonious unity.
Teachers sympathetic, empathetic in duality,
Guide learners with compassion's clarity,
Vast in trends, educational advancement's reality,
Conducive environment, a learner's serenity.
Modern facilities, equipment in totality,
Sporting complex, a wonder in locality,
Emotional, physiological, spiritual, cognitive, physicality,
Wellbeing's holistic approach, a noble integrity.
Day and boarding options, flexibility's liberty,
Pastoral parents, a nurturing community,
Full boarding facilities, a home away from home's security,
Landmark College's care, a promise of tenacity.
Academic excellence, integrity, honesty's sincerity,
Mutual respect, hardworking, a moral clarity,
Little wonders thrive, lunch provided with generosity,
Landmark College's slogan, a promise of fidelity.
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