Founders Poems - Poems about Founders

Defense of freedom takes a courage rare and dearly won Through wars endured with tyrants scourged and despots on the run The words in place by Founders Ink on parchment closely held As children roam the halls of light with precepts — deeply felt (The New Room: February, 2025) ...

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We’ve abused our great freedoms to reap the results with school and church shootings hate speech a new cult No respect for the flag or sacrifice made ignoring our veterans despoiling their graves Our streets wait in ambush where the enemy hides to prowl in a wasteland where evil decides The constitution a weapon to pervert and inflict traitorous courts with laws...

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We are inviting you to join our club of sixty- two. I was surprised, excited, and honored, by Miss Lou. You are our type, she assured me. We all want you. I believed her for sure; it gave me a big head too. You even look like the founders, the Ticket master said. I did not catch her name, something...

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It’s uncanny. . . How right has become wrong. How whites don’t belong. How living by rules is only for fools. It’s uncanny. . . How believing in God makes one rather odd. How our nation’s flag is a burnable rag. It’s uncanny. . . How telling the truth ...

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You return every year and the same month That is what I remember as I bid you farewell Six months ago; Riding on an old short-legged shoe In the parameter of being a White or Hispanic Or just a dead Indian instead I listen in full To the lengthy story of a Black President; The fumblingly sound of hope While the leeks...

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