Always a citizens greet
Pleasure to always meet
Towns and Cities
Southern dialect witty
Freight trains through the state
Visits no hesitate
Mountains and Trees surround
Voices echoes heard from mile away towns
Virginia known for Victories
Battlegrounds and Entertainment
That’s a Virginian commitment
Virginian’s will always share their storytelling
But to listen you must be willing
The vast land
Numerous farm land at a Virginian demand
Virginian’s do their best
They are not like other states who could careless
Virginians with hearts true
The motto, “Pure Follow Through”
Categories:
virginians, america, appreciation, beauty, character,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing rivaled the lemonade in Georgia.
Now, you could also find some damn good lemonade in the neighboring state of South Carolina. Virginians liked to think they too made fine lemonade, and it was better than anything north of the Potomac.
But the best was in Georgia.
And people in the good old days really did drink their lemonade on a lazy, late summer afternoon on the front porch of their wooden house as their kindly old dog, usually a Labrador or a golden retriever, lay down by their feet.
It happened exactly like that.
Just the way you’ve always pictured it.
Categories:
virginians, america, history, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Oh! Virginia
Come travel back with me to Old Virginia
The namesake of Elizabeth: the Queen
No other state possesses such charisma...
Oh! Mother, of this nation... evergreen.
The Old Dominion, (fifth realm of the Crown),
Birthed many 'Declaration' signers here
As well as Presidents...heroes abound,
From battles fought for Freedom we endear.
The Commonwealth is full of history:
From Jamestown...Williamsburg...and even Poe;
Virginians' Honour and Integrity...
Are still the code for living--not just show.
The Blue Ridge, Country Ham, and Brunswick Stew...
Virginia! Oh! Virginia! I love you...
deborah burch©1.3.2017
Form: Sonnet
Categories:
virginians, home, symbolism,
Form: Sonnet
"Millions of minions, pinioned by their sickened dominions,
asking for the opinions of popular Virginians who reside
in the capitals and Capitol of our nation's vacant soul!--
Millions of minions in search of a perch, it can be white
birch, black birch, or even a church, all looking for ways
to pad their padded pockets, it's all a rigged game in the
game of loaded dockets!"
"Excuse me sir...
But will you sit down and please shut up--
Now's not the time for civilian positions on race, religion,
or social conditions; it's best you put a lid on it because
in here there's absolutely only one opinion to which you
better da'mn well listen--
There's no talking in the theater! Now be a good Minion
and enjoy the show."
February 17, 2016
Categories:
virginians, satire,
Form: Free verse