Patriotic Immigration Poems

To those
who gave up everything
they knew, they lived, they loved,
To give me
my Today
my American day:

Were that small
leaking stinking wooden ship
sailing today
bound for America,

And they be
crowded...

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"Oh beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain."

          ...

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He says he saw "(this nation's)
Identity sold and robbed by immigration..."
And I remembered
My first day teaching at the border school
First teacher there that August morning
Cows...

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Carrying worn suitcases packed tightly
with meager possessions, lofty dreams,
bringing hearts filled
with longings
for the familiarity of homelands
and family left behind,
they came to America.

Schowengerdt, Rabun, Mazzei,
Erickson, Keeton...

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A wagon full of them 
happened to pass by mine 
at dawn
Their voices raised as one
attuned to match the demands 
of the current social trends...

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The American Dream

Gettin up each mornin' shoulder to the wheel.
Bangin' on the walls til they are gone.
Eyes on the horison makin' each new deal.
One step...

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Mother of Cowards
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"

So unlike the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land,
Spread-eagled, showering...

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The Crowned Dead

The growing of green things, 
should concern all of us. 
The fires burning in far lands, 
can still reach US(a). 
There are all...

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Oh say, did you notice
a national predative anthem?
Moving immediately
urgently,
without reflection of starlight 
sent or received,

From waving flags predicting elite weapons
fueled by complexly masculine 
emasculating
militarized corporate...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXVII

IF ever I had a country proud of its wall-less porous boundary

And if ever by no mistake of...

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This sacred land is an oasis on Earth 
It’s accepting of all despite background or birth 

All our citizens are equal and this is our...

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I don't want Aliens
buying U.S. business,
but please stand back
while I buy up all your cheapest busyness
for International Made In America Trumpism.

Colonialism,
like Trumpism,
should work only one...

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With the grandeur of prairies and canyon
With Georgian welcomes from Springer Mountain
With cooler welcomes of Katahdin
America rises with five million feet 

To exult among more...

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11-9-2016

On Election night, twentysixteen
I saw a strange and surreal scene
I looked cross the great harbor at Lady Liberty that night
And I knew right away, something...

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Why do you think my land is yours
Because you want to live like me
What makes you think you can exploit my dreams
Just because I live...

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