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Best Rushmore Poems

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Overheard On Mt Rushmore
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,”...

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Categories: rushmore, america,
Form: Rhyme



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: 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: 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: rushmore, silly,
Form: Limerick
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: 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: rushmore, international,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Pitch
THE PITCH

why
I ask
did she do that
i console myself
sun got in her eyes


trying to remember
is it mary lou
or carrie
never mind
whichever just gave me the finger


this english...

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Categories: rushmore, humorous,
Form: Tanka
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: 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: rushmore, mountains,
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: rushmore, history, native american, places
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Tribute To a Leader
~Tribute to A Leader~


        High above Mount Rushmore,
        a man with...

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Categories: rushmore, america, appreciation, goodbye, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
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: 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: rushmore, addiction, betrayal, emotions, husband,
Form: Bio
Rapid City (Poems From 7th Grade #3)
Rapid City, South Dakota 
I always like Fall best 
You can eat buttery pancakes 
From huge Ihop 
And Omelets 
And Toast 
And skillets 
And lots...

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Categories: rushmore, childhood
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Canadian's Letter To Americans: a Thousand Points of Light
A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! !

Once a beacon of democracy
A shining light on the hill
The ‘American Dream’
	Anyone can ‘make it’  
Never...

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© Mel Gill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rushmore, conflict, corruption, leadership, power,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs