Uplifting Independence Day Poems

Annie Oakely: The Poem by Shane Nielsen
Deep in the Ohio woods, to brown eyes aspy,
The wondrous echoes of nature give their humble reply,
to the spirit...

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The price we pay for our freedom is not contained in a man’s wallet,
Nor is liberty a currency found in a female fancy Gucci pocketbook.


It’s...

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The omniscient sun arises on these fields of freedom
And casts its bright hope above the faltering shadows of doubt
Awakening the heartland voices of a nation...

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people standing in a crowd
people very loud
people standing alone
watching brother and sister pigeons
defile the earth
ting on them

moving away cooing
quietly
and quickly
backwards 
being 
pigeons

mucking around
in the 
until...

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In the military 
Some you remember 
Some you forget 
But none more loyal 
Than a fellow vet 
To all the soldiers 
Of future, present, and...

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(form 5-7-5 kawanagi)


waking up alone
liberating morning sun
careless and carefree



Submitted on April 23, 2018 for contest HAIKU: HUMAN NATURE sponsored by Mick Talbot  - ...

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In Commemoration Of Nigeria's Independence Day 

Things are awry
Nothing is working
Prices are goin’ up

Top guns aren’t sorry  
More mess they’re creating
Corruption is eating us...

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~ Independence Day ~

Born into freedom
I can’t imagine any other life
Free to make up my own mind
Free to choose my own path
For this I am...

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On Independence Day
I declare  independence 
from American imperialism.
I declare U.S. out of Iraq.
And while I am at it
the C.I.A. out of the business
of supplying...

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