Short Thomas Jefferson Poems

Old Thomas Jefferson
Thought inventing was fun
But scared of the night
He bottled the light...

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President Thomas Jefferson
Penned our Declaration:
   To end unjust Oppression
   The Means are Insurrection...

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Part of: Enlightenment
Gave us: Entitlement
Authored: Independence
Eradicated: Ascendance

Here's to you - founding father Thomas Jefferson...

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Intended Freedoms

Thomas Jefferson
Prepared The Constitution.
Freedom: black and white.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 2, 2010

Poetic form:  Haiku...

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Gun ownership is a means of protection against government tyranny.
Lose our 2nd Amendment and kiss goodbye all of our civil liberties.
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"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bare arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
- Thomas Jefferson...

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In Spirit Haiku

all Americans
story tellers dream catchers~
drum circle homage

Other

First in war—First in peace                  -George Washington        
A divine inspired Declaration               -Thomas Jefferson
National Parks—Bold Conservation       -Theodore Roosevelt
Emancipation—fight doesn't sease       -Abraham Lincoln


For Presidents Day
Written 2/21/22...

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In change wherever you go,
on a nickel, you will find Monticello.
It was not that way years ago.
The reverse depicted a buffalo.
Thomas Jefferson also is shown to date.
He has been there since 1938.
A Native American chief was once there.
He could be found on nickels everywhere.
He made his debut in 1913.
Today, these coins are hardly ever seen.
A woman once said something to me that was funny.
“Don’t give it to me.  I only want American money.”...

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General, then President George Washington
                  Plantation owner and Virginia Squire
                     He never got a chance to retire

                Mr. John Adams, President the Second
                 The first to reside in the White House
                   His closest advisor was his spouse  

            Thomas Jefferson was President Number Three
            Linguist, mathematician -- man of many talents
               He wrote the Declaration of Independence...

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