A MATHEMATICAL PERSPECTIVE OF JUNETEENTH
...A MATHEMATICAL PERSPECTIVE OF JUNETEENTH
(Apropos of 1619 To 2025)
In the proud history of Virginia,
1619 was a significant year
In relating to the beginning
Of slavery in the Unite...
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Categories:
president lincoln, allegory, america, high school,
Form: Prose
A civil war ferociously raged
...A civil war ferociously raged...
within complex edifice...
derelict hulking corpse delineated courtesy
seared, singed, smoldered smithereens
formerly robust warrior
slain during prime of his l...
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Categories:
president lincoln, age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
My Commanders In Chief
...Many think this holiday honors all United States presidents we elect
But let me reflect
It is Washington’s birthday that we celebrate
It honors President Washington and President Lincoln as of la...
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Categories:
president lincoln, america, february, presidents day,
Form: Rhyme
Juneteenth
...Juneteenth
Juneteenth let's go down history
For years it was a mystery
Slavery had parted
Let's find out where it started
June 19,1865
Slavery had no longer been deprived
We had been fre...
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Categories:
president lincoln, america, art,
Form: Political Verse
SS Sultana
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Boiler, or bomb, the Sultana sank on April 27, eighteen sixty five
Taking down with her, a good rounded off number of 1,800 lives
Carrying Union soldiers, who were ex-prisoners of war, up nort...
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Categories:
president lincoln, betrayal, boat, history, lost,
Form: Couplet
Paper Walls
...Take shelter this might be a big one
Paper walls won't hold it back
I don't think this will be it
But 'aint too sure about that
Been thinkin' about President Lincoln
Nowadays he seems Heaven-s...
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Categories:
president lincoln, america, dark,
Form: Verse
We Are Not Afraid
...We Are Not Afraid
Why should we be afraid?
If this were the case,
There would be no United States.
The founding fathers were not afraid
To face imprisonment or death;
General Washing...
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Categories:
president lincoln, america, education, history, political,
Form: Verse
The Reality
...The Reality
As I look around, all I see is that
A storm has struck the ground;
And it's causing havoc all around.
Major issues within our country,
Like the officers that were meant to prot...
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Categories:
president lincoln, black african american, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter To Dear Mr President Abraham Lincoln
...When you proclaimed all slaves in the U.S.A. to be freed, it meant the total abolishment of the slavery system, I suppose. When you issued the Emancipation Proclamation, I think what you had in mind...
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Categories:
president lincoln, america, black african american,
Form: Narrative
Pentagon Word Poem
...Pentagon Word Poem of Seven Stanzas
I want my own way;
May have much to say;
From heaven was sent,
To be President.
God gave me a hint;
When I will repent,
A great day can be;
You just wa...
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Categories:
president lincoln, patriotic, peace, people, poetry,
Form: Couplet
A Covenant Fulfilled : a Witness To Christ
...now when i look back in history i have come to discover
that true African-american history is basically undercover
most cultures know their history and from whence they came to be
but somehow that...
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Categories:
president lincoln, black african american, christian,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Young American Days
...To be in a young America ~
visions of a ship upcoming statue of Liberty
the young lad holding tightly to his Mothers leg
in all excitement of a new Land to call...
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Categories:
president lincoln, absence, america, art, books,
Form: Epic
A Is For
...A is for Adams, second and sixth presidents.
B is for two Bushes who were Whitehouse residents.
C is for Clinton, forty-second president of nation.
D is for Davis, President of Southern Federati...
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Categories:
president lincoln, people,
Form: Couplet
Worthless Copper
...Pennies are made of worthless copper that even a hungry beggar
refuses to pick up; either I threw them away or kept them in a piggy jar,
but the day came when need and desperation made me rethink
of ...
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Categories:
president lincoln, history, introspection, people, sorry,
Form: Rhyme
President Lincoln
...Great leader
Defender
Death to enemy
Can see victory
Young country
Still in its dire infancy
Fighting brother and brother
Commander
Chief looks for exit
Finds none, war will start
War is hell...
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Categories:
president lincoln, history, war,
Form: Verse
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