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Mount Rushmore
I looked up at the mountain,
the result - I was in awe!
George, Teddy, Tom, and Abe,
were the faces, that I saw!

Faces carved in granite.
Fourteen years,...

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Categories: mount rushmore, history, tribute, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mount Rushmore, Carved In Stone
Mount Rushmore; Carved In Stone

From deep within the earth’s crust,
An orogeny pushes
The batholith upwards
To become ‘The Shrine of Democracy,’
Of weathered presidential faces
Chiseled in rock in...

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Categories: mount rushmore, america, education, history, inspiration,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Added To Mount Rushmore
Sure like my image to be added to Mount Rushmore
It could be animated with me chuckling forevermore
In the history books I'd be
One who wrote about...

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Categories: mount rushmore, silly,
Form: Limerick
Mount Rushmore Afternoon
Editing Poetry...
  which face comes off the mountain?

(Keystone South Dakota: August, 2013)...

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Categories: mount rushmore, poetry,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Mount Rushmore
Off to Mount Rushmore
To see the presidents:
Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln, and Roosevelt,
Men of enormous stature
In the land of The Lakota,
Keystone, South Dakota
Fourteen years undertaking
Borglum’s work breathtaking,
With sixty-foot-high...

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Categories: mount rushmore, memorial, mountains, presidents day,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What To Do If a Dog Bites
I was running from the man

Or the cops if you please

 I hopped over a fence

Landed funny, scraped my knee

 

Looked around and saw a...

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Categories: mount rushmore, animals, funny, health,
Form: Rhyme
Human Rights
Human Rights June 27,2015

Human rights for you and me
 Palestinian children living free
 People free without a tear
 Children playing without fear
 Irish children white,...

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Categories: mount rushmore, international,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Theodore Rooselvet
In the historical archives, many trails have led to
The making of a legend, those born with the pioneer spirit
Of individuality, bred deeply within their soul.
Such...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mount rushmore, character, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Magnificence of the Mountains
For there is freedom on 
top of the mount,
as I quench my thirst
from the Niagara Falls fount.
I have seen the Rockies 
and the Appalachians,
on journeys...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mount rushmore, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tribute To a Leader
~Tribute to A Leader~


        High above Mount Rushmore,
        a man with...

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Categories: mount rushmore, america, appreciation, goodbye, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Six Grandfathers
This statue of four done the American way
For the Black Hills of Dakota, with the Lakota should stay
Carved to commemorate, the first one hundred and...

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Categories: mount rushmore, history, native american, places
Form: Ekphrasis
American Beauty
We often hear America the 
Beautiful being played 
somewhere…

The Bald Eagle is the national 
symbol of the United States…

There are many monuments 
and memorials that...

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Categories: mount rushmore, war, , memorial,
Form: Verse
Maria
Holding back wasn't a option anymore
My lust for her was as big as Mount Rushmore
I was going to make her mine
It was only a matter...

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Categories: mount rushmore, addiction, betrayal, emotions, husband,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Wouldn'T You
I want a sassafras root beer soda
my head on Mount Rushmore South Dakota
I want a brand new pair of brown shoes
get my name on a...

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Categories: mount rushmore, fun, humorous, i love
Form: Rhyme
Careful Thought and Laughter
The sun rose, the moon set
Life's wheels went into reverse
And Mount Rushmore does not have a new face

The groundhog went back into his hole
Santa did...

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Categories: mount rushmore, death, introspection, life, light,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things