Best Potomac Poems

With apologies to Robby Burns and Sweet Afton - in celebration of Spring, and the return of our Bald Eagle family to their Great Falls home on the bonnie banks O’Burn Potomac:

Oh to be in Great Falls,
Now that Spring is on us,
Hearing baby eaglet calls,
A...

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Across the Potomac a single figure sits 
          Looking out over the land his loved in the morning mist 
          A gentle man and tired his best...

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We were accustomed to being in the military living in the
barracks, having inspections and following the rules.
Yet, at summer's zenith, my sweetheart and I and our two
friends left behind the Ft. Myer base in Arlington, Virginia,
to spend a Saturday night at Lady Bird Johnson Park....

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Topple the monuments of the founders
for all of their shortcomings and sins
rip their portraits of museum walls
toss them into the Potomac River, 
Splatter paint over their granite heads
erect monuments to your perfect selves
for you're the self- anointed god for all ages.

Kick old lady liberty in...

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