Short Star Spangled Banner Poems

Francis Scott Key
     Wrote Star Spangled Banner...

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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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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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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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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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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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The youth of today may not know
our phones used to be plugged into walls
and never went in cars, pockets or purses.

The youth of today may not know
the nightly news was never given to us
unless the facts and the sources were verified.

The youth of today may not know
we heard the star-spangled banner at midnight
on our grayscale TV sets and knew it was time to go to bed....

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Fender strung upside down
 big hands pressing strings to frets.
 Woodstocks’ last scheduled act, Jimi 
 exercized his “Right to Free Speech.”
The world heard an eclectic electric version
of  “Star Spangled Banner.” Those notes still
reverberate “All Along the Watchtower.”

“Hey Joe,” “Are You Experienced?”

 “WELL, I AM !”



*To honor Jimi Hendrix in Raul Moreno's contest....

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THE HOME OF THE BRAVE

O the flag still waves
in Paradise
red, white, blue and singed

as serpentine colors licked
with razor-sharp tongues —
black and white
egg yolk yellow
and rip-roaring red
snapping, crackling, tearing
in armageddon style

O an angel stood guard
taking mercy
upon a lone symbol

Patriotism withstanding

11/13/2018

*Title from last line of The Star Spangled Banner...

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Droplets bled stained a star-spangled banner
Eagles clutch arrows guarding a nation’s manner
Marble marks the crypts of heroes 
Orchards of Polycor Georgia marble honor their grassy graveyard
Citizens soldiers bled for the freedom and justice they guard
Rainbows span a nation’s expanse 
Anchors of steel fuse resolve to et al 
Cementing an Augustan wall
Yankee Doodle marching precedes liberty’s parade...

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Home of The Free and the Brave

The 4th of July is a
special time to 
remember with parades
picnics, family and friends, 
but what touches me
most is to hear the
Star Spangled Banner.
To sing of the Star 
Spangled Banner
yet Waving and,
To know that I 
live in the Home, 
of The Free
and the Brave
brings me to tears,
every time I 
hear it sung. 

         Jerri Ward
                   7/10...

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