Best Rushmore Poems

Picture this: Mt. Rushmore
With its most imposing heads
Discussing certain rumors
Which the White House likely spreads.

“He can’t be really serious!”
Groused Teddy, steaming mad.
“I think he is,” calm George replied.
“He’s nuts, though, I should add.”

“There isn’t room up here at all,”
As Thomas pointed out.
“He’ll just buy the...

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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, to get it done!
Over 400 people did the stonework,
completed - October 1941!

Why these four were chosen,
may have been a mystery?
It's...

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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 South Dakota;
Representing 150 years of history
(From birth of a nation
To entry into the 20th. century)
In carved images:
Of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt,...

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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 pee
Not very dignified but a poet top drawer


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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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 faces
Carved into granite outcrop,
One of our country’s
Most celebrated places.

written August 15, 2021

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September 28, 2021...

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Editing Poetry...
  which face comes off the mountain?

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

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What proud Americans see,
has been done before
Graven image glory ...
Mount Rushmore
Four faces carved into 
a mountainside
South Dakota idols looks like 
the one in southern Sudan
Mount Abu Simbel,
circa 1200 B.C.
Four Pharaoh figures
standing tall 100 feet
Graven images carved into
a mountainside
To bear witness
of things to come
That in the...

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Gutzon Borglum and four hundred other talented people carved Mount Rushmore.
They began in 1927 and finished fourteen years later during the second World 
War.
This Presidential Memorial is truly a great work of art.
It has touched millions of people's hearts.
They carved the heads of Washington, Jefferson,...

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Sure like my image to be added to Mount Rushmore
It could be animated with me chuckling evermore
In the history books I'd be
One who wrote about pee
Not very dignified but a poet top drawer...

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Sure like my image to be added to Mount Rushmore
It could be animated by me chuckling evermore
In the history books, I'd be
One who wrote about pee
Not very dignified but a poet top drawer...

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My image to be added to Mount Rushmore
Could be animated of me chuckling forevermore
In the history books, I'd be
One who wrote about pee
Not very dignified but a famous poet top drawer...

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My image will be added to Mount Rushmore
Could be animated of me chuckling forevermore
In the history books, I'd be
One who wrote about pee
Not very dignified but a poet top drawer...

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     Abraham Lincoln:  “With malice toward none, with charity for all.” 
       
     George Wallace:    “Callous toward all, with charity to none.”

     Alexandra...

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From the front the old stodgy men look almost okay
How do they look down by Canadian way?
I am talking about the Mount Rushmore four.
Washington, Jefferson, Abe and Theodore.

Can you imagine if they had been carved in three-D?
Which one would your eyes want to look over...

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“Fear Mongers”

Newspapers yelling, 
TVs screaming,
Radios blaring.
Is this what we want?
Is this what we need?

Politicians lying,
Preachers ranting,
Black men dying,
Mothers crying.
Is this what we want?
Is this what we need?

Breaking news,
More breaking news.
Shootings here,
Robberies there,
More mothers crying.
Is this what we want?
Is this what we need?

Fear mongers
Marching, Marching, Marching
They’re...

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