Mount Rushmore Poems - Poems about Mount Rushmore

Abraham Lincoln: “With malice toward none, with charity for all.” George Wallace: “Callous toward all, with charity to none.” Alexandra Cortez: “Braless toward all, nothing for no one.” ...

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“Fear Mongers” Newspapers yelling, TVs screaming, Radios blaring. Is this what we want? Is this what we need? Politicians lying, Preachers ranting, Black men dying, Mothers crying. Is this what we want? Is this what we need? Breaking news, More breaking news. Shootings here, Robberies there, More mothers crying. Is this what we want? Is this what we need? Fear mongers Marching, Marching, Marching They’re coming to take you away Hey! Hey! They’re coming to take you...

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Off to Mount Rushmore To see the presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, Men of enormous stature In the land of The Lakota, Keystone, South Dakota Fourteen years undertaking Borglum’s work breathtaking, With sixty-foot-high faces Carved into granite outcrop, One of our country’s Most celebrated places. written August 15, 2021 Featured on All Poetry's Front Page September 28, 2021...

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My image will be added to Mount Rushmore Could be animated of me chuckling forevermore In the history books, I'd be One who wrote about pee Not very dignified but a poet top drawer...

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Mount Rushmore; Carved in Stone From deep within the earth’s crust, An orogeny pushes The batholith upwards To become ‘The Shrine of Democracy,’ Of weathered presidential faces Chiseled in rock in South Dakota; Representing 150 years of history (From birth of a nation To entry into the 20th. century) In carved images: Of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln. An army of men labored, fourteen years in the...

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My image to be added to Mount Rushmore Could be animated of me chuckling forevermore In the history books, I'd be One who wrote about pee Not very dignified but a famous poet top drawer...

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Sure like my image to be added to Mount Rushmore It could be animated by me chuckling evermore In the history books, I'd be One who wrote about pee Not very dignified but a poet top drawer...

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Sure like my image to be added to Mount Rushmore It could be animated with me chuckling evermore In the history books I'd be One who wrote about pee Not very dignified but a poet top drawer...

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Editing Poetry... which face comes off the mountain? (Keystone South Dakota: August, 2013)...

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Sure like my image to be added to Mount Rushmore It could be animated with me chuckling forevermore In the history books I'd be One who wrote about pee Not very dignified but a poet top drawer © Jack Ellison 2015...

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I looked up at the mountain, the result - I was in awe! George, Teddy, Tom, and Abe, were the faces, that I saw! Faces carved in granite. Fourteen years, to get it done! Over 400 people did the stonework, completed - October 1941! Why these four were chosen, may have been a mystery? It's because they represent, the first 130 years, of Americas history! George, was...

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Gutzon Borglum and four hundred other talented people carved Mount Rushmore. They began in 1927 and finished fourteen years later during the second World War. This Presidential Memorial is truly a great work of art. It has touched millions of people's hearts. They carved the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln too. Carving these sculptures was a brilliant thing...

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