I am the war of
1812.
I am Standard Oil
Dripping with wealth.
I am Edgar Allen Poe
And Beethoven.
I am the first time the
Kentucky Derby opens.
I am the battle at
Wounded knee.
I am giving of the Statue
Of Liberty.
I am the sewing machine
Gets a Patent.
I am Darwin and Uncle
Tom's cabin.
I am Abe Lincoln and the
Gettysburg Address.
I am they place Geronimo
Under arrest.
I am Jack the ripper and
Sherlock Holmes.
I am Alexander Graham Bell
Inventing the telephone.
I am the book Alice in
Wonderland.
I am the inventor
Thomas Edison.
I am the Lewis and Clark
Expedition.
I am the first Olympic game
Competition.
I am the opium war and the
Louisiana Purchase.
I am Florence Nightingale
At your service.
I am the Kodak camera
Box.
I am Moby Dick and
Karl Marx.
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Categories:
gettysburg address, history,
Form: Rhyme
Mere prose can be quite beautiful! Its writers get my praise,
With rhythm, grace, and clarity, leave readers in a daze,
It too, can make a reader think, bring joy or tear the eye,
But when is prose so musical its chords match butterfly?
To memorize prose words is work, you doubt it? Ask a child!
While music cuts an instant groove, domesticates the wild,
The ancient world hears Bible sung; it's an exacting art,
While Bibles we translate in prose miss some part of the heart.
While Gettysburg address is great, it never will be sung,
And revolutions come and go, they never will be rung!
A poem uses lover's ways (and flirts with love's disguise,)
A poem's truth tests bounds of heart, the wisdom in our eyes!
Brian Johnston
3rd of June, 2018
Poet's Notes:
The writing of a poem is such an exciting process. I was on a neighborhood hike without any recording device when the last two lines of this poem popped into my head. I usually work from a title. What fun!
Categories:
gettysburg address, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Abraham Lincoln was America's Unexpected Jesus
Booth spilled this stream of blood along the Mason-Dixon line
Calls for forgiveness and reunion since the Gettysburg Address
Did bring out the better angels of our natures in 1865
Eventually celebrated in Memorial Day since 1866
Few nations in civil wars or uncivil, have a Lincoln or Jesus
Categories:
gettysburg address, america, angel, history, leadership,
Form: ABC
4. The Articles of Confederation 1778
Three references: "The year of our Lord", first paragraph; "The year of our Lord", last paragraph; "Great Governor of the world", Article X111, 2nd. paragraph
5. The Constitution of The United States 1787
Two references: "Year of our Lord", Article V11, 2nd. paragraph; "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof", Amendment 1, Section 1
6. The Gettysburg Address 1865
Two references: "Created equal", 1st. Paragraph; "This nation under God", 3rd. Paragraph
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Categories:
gettysburg address, america, bible, christian, england,
Form: Prose
Five decades have made his preaching prophetic, didactic
Fresh from College, he was invited to go on teaching, O Professor King!
Chiseled his own Gettysburg address, to heal divided church and State:
We honor your family that overcame threats, bombs, the Bureau's wiretapping!
Yes, you were snatched away from us in your prime
Like a few other great Americans, and one who descended from Heaven
Like Jesus Himself, disciples disappointed, turned away ... with time
Now, it is safe to celebrate you (birth and death): How you inspire the children!
(c) A. Deo, 04042017
Categories:
gettysburg address, anniversary, black african american,
Form: Quatrain
Lincoln and Gettysburg Haiku
Lincoln Memorial
Now in Washington D C
For us all to see
Gettysburg Address
That was told at Gettysburg
By our President
Four score and seven
Years ago our President
Brought to new nation
You complete the rest
As you thing that it should be
Many years ago
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Categories:
gettysburg address, history, , memorial,
Form: Haiku
A New Life
(Especially for Tom and Marg Smicklas)
Those poor kids who were at Columbine;
What if one had been my very mine;
Felt it in music Symphony just played
Thoughts and emotions they displayed.
The more of the music that I had heard
It reminded me of each and every word
Lincoln read at the Gettysburg Address
About sadness to God we did confess.
Soldiers charging bravely into battlefield
Full of strength and not wanting to yield
Against a brother action may have been,
Who he shall no longer ever see again.
Those students and soldiers who did die
Over and over for them continually cry
As they all soon heaven will enter in
A far better life they will all begin.
Shrouded sadness slowly passes away;
Still pray for them each night and day
We here on earth much pain must bare
Thinking of those high in heaven up there
James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran
Categories:
gettysburg address, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Patriotism is in the air,
And sentiments high,
Cataclysm is over,
Liberation heaves a sigh!
Insufferable inequality,
Now is ineffable ecstasy,
Undeterred determination,
And honourable judiciary !
Providential independence,
Undisputed Unification,
Living to credence,
Spirit of nationalism!
All men created equal, by creator endowed with certain,
Unalienable rights- life, liberty and pursuit of happiness!
** last two lines have been taken from Abraham Lincoln's centrepiece of rhetoric ( in Gettysburg address of 1863) and is a well known statement on human rights
Written on 12/7/14
Contest- patriotism
Sponsor- Isaiah Zerbst
Awarded 3rd place
Categories:
gettysburg address, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
>> Life and Love of Lincoln
>> Saw many waves of worthy slaves;
>> One day will end up in their graves;
>> Before to each baby had given birth,
>> To those living life on this earth.
>> All grow up to be women and men;
>> Life's cycle started all over again;
>> Brought into world by their wives,
>> Who would welcome all new lives.
>> Out in cotton fields had been picking,
>> As hands of time did continue ticking;
>> Later off to church, they liked to go;
>> Sang so sweetly and faces did glow.
>> Anything, they surely would do,
>> Which made many dreams come true;
>> Some may seem small to you and me,
>> By slaves who wanted to be free.
>> Lincoln's legacy had been passed,
>> Created by him forever to last;
>> While watching a play on some stage,
>> Was killed by person with much rage.
>> Life and love of Lincoln lingers on;
>> Up into heaven, he now has gone;
>> When Gettysburg Address, we do say;
>> Voice of him can be heard everyday.
Categories:
gettysburg address, patriotic,
Form: Couplet
The Boring Teacher
By Elton Camp
Coach Lindsey is an ignorant creep
Who puts all of his students to sleep
Sports is the only thing that he knows
Yet, into the history classroom he goes
He doesn’t know how people did live
And a coherent lecture he can’t give
He can’t tell one Adams from another
Thinks LBJ is Andy Johnson’s brother
That Teddy Roosevelt was after FDR
And that Jefferson drove an Edsel car
That the War of 1812 was against Spain
And that WW II saw sinking of the Maine
Believes Adolf Hitler was the head of Japan
And that Ben Franklin for president ran
The Constitution of the newly-formed nation
Confuses with the Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address is where the president lives
The Bill of Rights a listing of expenses gives
And yet, tenure good Coach Lindsey has got
So it doesn’t matter if he is ignorant or not
Categories:
gettysburg address, education,
Form: Rhyme
It seems I may not need to be
A fly upon the wall,
For so many folks are ready to
Reveal their all in all.
Innumerable tell all books
And gossip magazines
Are ready to print the stuff that once
Was kept behind the scenes.
You can go on line and whisper
All the secrets that you know,
Or show your private moments
On TV reality show.
For a trifle of notoriety,
There is nothing they won’t say.
If you want to peek in other’s lives
It’s not too hard to do today.
When I was young, the party line,
Was the local gossip’s toy.
If you mentioned something secret,
It would fill her heart with joy.
It would come back to you the next day
And would have been enlarged a bit.
Your sad secret is much juicier
When someone else is telling it.
I would like to have been listening
To The Sermon on the Mount,
To be sure that Matthew had it right
In his remarkable account.
Or to have heard with my own ears
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
That’s something that an humble fly
Could not appreciate, I guess.
I am glad some human stood there
Who could write it down for me.
We have the written word to thank
For preserving history.
Categories:
gettysburg address, history
Form: Rhyme
Bipolar people do not fear;
Those without our disease
Don't understand our brilliance;
Only see our pain and depression;
Shame, shame on them, I say,
For they should remember our contributions to society;
Before they judge our lapses
Where would we be without the Gettysburg Address for example!
I dare say without us along for the ride the world would
be a dull place to be!
Categories:
gettysburg address, depression, life, people, social,
Form: Free verse
I'm a shopping cart,
a free form squeaker of the
truth.
I'm a black top parking lot
on the surface of a dream.
I'm a thin veneer cross the
chest of drawers that hides
your dirty magazines.
I'm the crust on summer's dusk.
The ring around the collar grit.
The decay of cowboy comics;
A 10 cent glider's path.
The harbinger of new math.
A washing machine's tumble.
The gray skies ominous rumble.
A bad haircut on spring break.
The Vietnam war,
the Superbowl,
The lounge singer in the
businessman's maw.
I'm stupid,
a friggin mess,
farting and tap dancing the
Gettysburg address.
Categories:
gettysburg address,
Form: Ballad