Short Gettysburg Address Poems

Lincoln and Gettysburg Haiku

Lincoln Memorial
Now in Washington D C
For us all to see

Gettysburg Address
That was told at Gettysburg
By our President

Four score and seven
Years ago our President
Brought to new nation

You complete the rest
As you thing that it should be
Many years ago

James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet...

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Abraham Lincoln was America's Unexpected Jesus
Booth spilled this stream of blood along the Mason-Dixon line
Calls for forgiveness and reunion since the Gettysburg Address
Did bring out the better angels of our natures in 1865
Eventually celebrated in Memorial Day since 1866
Few nations in civil wars or uncivil, have a Lincoln or Jesus...

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Bipolar people do not fear;
Those without our disease 
Don't understand our brilliance;
Only see our pain and depression;

Shame, shame on them, I say,
For they should remember our contributions to society;
Before they judge our lapses
Where would we be without the Gettysburg Address for example!

I dare say without us along for the ride the world would
be a dull place to be!...

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