Short Johnny Appleseed Poems

You must be someone new
Another Johnny Appleseed
Leaving flowers wherever you walk
So, please travel the world
Bring life and beauty wherever you go
And we will remember your name
Johnny Flowerseed

© Poem – VI/XI/MMXXIV
LRET
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Our old friend Johnny Appleseed
Was a bit of a kook all agreed
Always wore a tin pot on his head
Kept himself dry and also well fed

Johnny Appleseed was really John Chapman...he became the stuff of legends after his death. 
He wandered the northeast planting appleseeds. The apples were used for apple cider or "spirits",
not for eating....

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A  is for the apple trees of Johnny Appleseed, 
    planting economic freedom 
    from sea to shining sea.
M is for mother, Madam Liberty,
    honors regrowth, the melting pot of the free.
E  is for emergence, of new thoughts, new lives, new mysteries.
R  is for the richness of cultural diversity.
I   is for a fresh idealism not false idolatry.
A   is for admiration of America¢s bold beauty.

And all that spelled America 
from sea to shining sea....

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