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Independence Day Poems | Examples of Independence Day Poetry

After Clouds Depart
She thinned to vapour, blue as longing's edge, while we searched skywards, calling her lost name. Wind replied in whispers no one could catch– just hollow notes strung on a frayed thread. Now dusk repeats her gesture: palms upturned, spilling light where her shadow once poured. We drink the rain, still tasting her farewell. ...

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Categories: imagination, independence day, inspiration,
Form: Verse
PHANTOM LIMB
(Verse 1) This empty room still hums your favorite song, Sunlight cuts the dust where your laugh belonged. I trace the cracks in every worn-out tile, Searching for your shadow one more mile. (Chorus) **I can still feel you like a phantom limb—** A ghost in every room,...

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Categories: heartbroken, independence day, inspiration,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Fourth of July Thief
Independence Day fountains of heavenly hues firefly steals the show ...

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Categories: independence day,
Form: Senryu
MY INDEPENDENCE DAY
I wake to choices, mine to make, No predetermined path to walk, No scripted lines I have to talk. This Fourth of July I celebrate Not just a nation's founding date, But my own revolution won The day I chose to be someone The neighbors whisper, "Strange," they say, "Why live so differently this way?" But their approval never fed The hunger growing in my...

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Categories: independence day, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
How should a man bow?
Do insects kneel at the mire of a stronger foe? Do pages turn themselves in fear of the readers will? Do the stars flicker in panic from the watcher? Does time relieve itself at thought of the forgotten? Why then should a man created with the same flesh, blood & strength of the savior bow to such...

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Categories: independence day, analogy, bereavement, christian, devotion,
Form: Free verse



On the 4th of July
Today, they’ll fire up the grill For burgers, hot dogs, ribs And hungry guests will gather ‘round To point and claim first dibs. I will not be among them, Though I’ll not be too forlorn; My husband mashed potatoes And made chicken and some corn. At night there will be fireworks But we will not attend. We’ll watch a Netflix series Where we’re...

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Categories: independence day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Farewell To Fair Play
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain in his 1873 novel /The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized the era's materialism and political corruption is just what this King has ordered in his Megabill —Poetess There was economic prosperity, tho unconscionable social inequality as a few “robber barons” tycoons amassed great fortunes, whereas degradation inflicted dire poverty, mass...

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Categories: farewell, freedom, independence day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 4th OF JULY
Independence Day in America, for all except those oppressed:- ...

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Categories: independence day, allegory, anxiety, celebration, conflict,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Toward Independence July 2nd 1776
On this day the… thirteen colonies broke away from British Crown~ forming USA ...

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Categories: independence day, america,
Form: Senryu
Oh Liza, dear Liza
Oh Liza, dear Liza. My plane’s going down. I’m somewhere over the Pacific, but there's nobody around. Nobody to watch as this hunk of metal falls No one to weep as these blaring alarms stall. Dear Liza, my Liza. Now I’m going down. It’s not valiant or brave like you hear of in town. There was no gunfire, I’m just...

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Categories: flying, freedom, independence day,
Form: Narrative
Fireworks
Fuse Ignite Cannon booms Magick ascends Light Contest Name: Light Up The Lanterne Sponsor's Name: Nette Onclaud Date of Poem: 06/17/2025...

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Categories: firework, independence day,
Form: Lanterne
Premium Member Postcard, to a Friend from Twenty-Four Years Ago
They treated me for bipolar disorder. I wanted you to know. Although the doctors later said it was the Adipex-p and weed mimicking an up-and-down disease— it hasn’t happened since. I still think it was more than that. Hard to believe it’s been more than twenty years— that fourth of July, when I read your mind at the Washington Mall, and ran off...

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Categories: independence day, desire, forgiveness, heartbreak, independence
Form: Free verse
Premium Member June Bug
June Bug, do you remember me? Understand, I'm older now, you see. No longer do I visit Grandpa with my brothers. Every fourth of July, you too, came with many others. Both of us came to play - beneath the fireworks display. United again, I recall you never flew so well. Give us another fourth, and we will give 'em hell....

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Categories: independence day, insect, memory,
Form: Acrostic
When Trump Money Talks
When Trump Money Talks, life-forms cringe, crinkle & close- Civility folds. _____ Notes: DEFINING AND DEFENDING CIVILIZATION 1. Unfit for public office / psychological 2. Abuse of power / Statements of revenge on opponents 3. Unconstitutional / Use of military in domestic police powers / posse comitatus / stated claim 4. Unconstitutional ~ Executive invasion of Judicial Branch Perogatives / Supreme Court ~...

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Categories: independence day, america, freedom, holocaust, independence
Form: Haiku
indictment of President Donald Trump
We the people of the United States along with much of the world WITNESSED WITH OUR OWN EYES / and is therefore / THE SELF-EVIDENT TRUTH that: Donald j. Trump / on January 6th / undertook the means and methods along with co-conspirators to deny The Legitimate Will Of The People of The United...

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Categories: freedom, independence day, political,
Form: Political Verse

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