Short Spangled Poems

Francis Scott Key
     Wrote Star Spangled Banner...

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Citizens All, 1

Awaking's The Call. 2

Of  Privacy, Property, 3

Records In Fall! 4...

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joy of frozen fun
spray fine mister in the sun
star spangled ice show!...

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Oh, say, can you see
Here our treasure lies buried:
America’s brave
Died for star spangled banner
And the homeland of the free....

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A
simple
stone block in
an acre of
soil,
star
spangled
symbol of
freedom under
law.


Inspired by a visit to Runnymede...

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Stars staged their night show
Soon as stepped in from window,
My sleep watched in awe.
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Haiku |39.06.2021|...

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To sing out the Star Spangled Banner
In the most appropriate manner
You must have four
To sound out more
And highlight that new fangled scanner...

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~*~
~~**~~
star spangled banner
standing tall for all to see
the flag of freedom
~~**~~
~*~


U.S.A.
Warner Baxter...

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abstract masterpiece 
star-spangled strokes of color
waltz around heaven




				
Written Feb. 21st . 2016 for “Instant Telegram - Poetry Contest.”...

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There once was a lad named Cy Milgram
A regular cool and hip pilgrim --
   He saw Plymouth 'Rock'
   Said, "Fast forward the clock!" --
Played Jimi Hendrix ~ nearly killed 'em...

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Cap'n Rogers, a star-spangled gent,
Whose shield off a baddie was sent.
With a "Heavens to Betsy!"
He'd flatten your jetski,
Then apologize, "Sorry, I meant..."

©bfa031925

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Star
Singing
Purple haze
Put spell on you
Electric guitar
The star spangled banner
Another overdose done
Poetic lyrics mesmerize
Waves of tunes that do misplace the mind
Music of his replayed, this very day...

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Trump supporter Roseann Barr

at a baseball game acted so bizarre.

She sang Star Spangled Banner in a screeching sound,

grabbed her crotch and then spit on the ground.


Aug. 1, 2018 for The Clerihew contest of The Name Forsakes Me...

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Remember when, 'way back then'
Our flag we flew -- to cheers, not boos

Old Glory, all saluted
No one taunted, no one hooted

'Star-Spangled Banner' folks sang
Off-key, tear-stained twang
     
We believed every word
Deep yearnings stirred...

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Can You See the Star Spangled Banner Fly,
     
     O'er the Memorial High,
 
     Salute to Their Honor




    
   Dedicated to Our Service Men and Women, Wherever they May Be, God Bless

                                                      RdP...

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Beads fly by
Kids grab for candy
Bands play Jazz
Spangled girls
Sweat and sugar sticks to me
Laughter fills the air 

Catch the beads
The floats go by us
Look at that
Wonderful
What a way to welcome Lent
First one last Beginet




For the Share a Shadorma contest...

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Star spangled banner rooster crowing away, arrogance does not yield.
What? He is singing the star-spangled banner at Chicago, Wrigley Field?
That will do nothing but give him a much higher puffed up head.
There is no living with the guy now, his unassuming wife said....

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a spangled stand stood at a summer fair
the sugar shack sells at nine dollars a treat
pastel skeins of silk spun lighter than air
melt-in-mouth-goodness, so delectable and sweet

each tender bite is a firework of ecstasy
but this transient delight sure costs a pretty penny!

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STARS

Star light, star bright,
first flare I see tonight,
star spangled lights
on the Eastern horizon.

Out there somewhere,
is a normal PX world;
out beyond the horizon
and further yet beyond 
multicoloured skyward flares.

I wish I may, I wish I might,
not find Charlie this night....

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Falling riffs like spangled gold,
And sounding drums seem to explode
A surge of tapping, dancing feet,
The piano’s notes, mon coeur entreat.
Cherie amour the air is ''sweet'', so silver laced,
Each face reflects another’s shine
As endeavours fruit is taken in
Like fragrant mellow wine.


© Joe Maverick 03-08-2010...

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Now new Wizards come on scene in spangled coats 

PR Experts, Press, Politicians paint new scenes

That set us all at odds, each other’s throats

With smears, distorting mirrors, cunning memes


16 September 2019
Contest: Arbitrium Divisa 4
Sponsor: Gregory Barden
Verse taken from poem: The New Wizards...

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As the star-spangled glory,
Flies proud and grand,
With the home of the brave,
Though hill scattered lands,

With the star-spangled banner,
Gleaming o’er the shore
As the noble eagle
Stretches and soars

And the flag flies brilliant,
By mountains high,
As the crop fields spread,
Beneath won’drous blue skies....

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Girded loins sway
in restive need of sterile quarry,
lithe star spangled limbs
span the velvet heavens,
silver huntress Diana
unbends slender crescent arms,
looses the gleaming arrow,
unknowing, unerring, the missile
flies to the mark,
unflinching, the prey falters
in fatal ecstasy,
finite pleasure 
alloyed with infinite pain....

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Lazing in spring's warm bliss
               lure butterflies with scents
     Lustrous pearly dewdrops
                  leave velvety footprints
     Landscape spangled with stars
             Lissome leaves in white hues
     Lie on me when I die...


Contest Pleiades -L
Seven lines with six syllables each
Date April 14, 2017...

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limitless  
endless rounds repeating
banquet of unmeasured sustenance  

liquid light  
released into coolness  
assuaging my soul's brown thirstiness 

eyes open  
unguarded, unafraid  
sinking in spangled star reflections 

color arc
rushing joyful cascade  
letting go, untethered forever 


October 26, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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