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The Beautiful
When necessary
Dissolve the political bands
Assume the powers of the Earth
The laws of Nature
That they are endowed with unalienable rights
Deriving their powers from consent
Destructive of these ends
Abolish it's foundation
To affect their Safety and Happiness
Prudence, established accordingly
Experience mankind disposed
While evils are sufferable
Abuses and usurpations
Reduce them absolute
Their duty to throw off such Guards
security
patient
necessity
History of absolute Tyranny
Facts be candid
Refused
Wholesome public good
Forbidden
suspended operation
Be obtained; and utterly neglected
Refused
The accommodation
Relinquish the right
Formidable to tyrants only
At places unusual
uncomfortable
distant
For the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance
Dissolved in manly firmness
Dissolutions incapable of Annihilation,
Returned at large
Exposed to all the dangers
Invasion from without. Convulsions within.
Endeavored
For that purpose
To encourage their migrations hither,
Raising the Lands
Dissolve the political bands
Assume the powers of the Earth
The laws of Nature
That they are endowed with unalienable rights
Deriving their powers from consent
Destructive of these ends
Abolish it's foundation
To affect their Safety and Happiness
Prudence, established accordingly
Experience mankind disposed
While evils are sufferable
Abuses and usurpations
Reduce them absolute
Their duty to throw off such Guards
security
patient
necessity
History of absolute Tyranny
Facts be candid
Refused
Wholesome public good
Forbidden
suspended operation
Be obtained; and utterly neglected
Refused
The accommodation
Relinquish the right
Formidable to tyrants only
At places unusual
uncomfortable
distant
For the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance
Dissolved in manly firmness
Dissolutions incapable of Annihilation,
Returned at large
Exposed to all the dangers
Invasion from without. Convulsions within.
Endeavored
For that purpose
To encourage their migrations hither,
Raising the Lands
Published 13th Apr 2020
Author's Note
My humble first attempt at Docupoetry.
Declaration of independence (1776)
Declaration of independence (1776)
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13th Apr 2020 11:38pm
I really like the way you write. This is really interesting... actually have not seen anything quite like it. Almost sounds like a constitution of sorts the way you put it.
13th Apr 2020 11:43pm
I appreciate that! & you are 100% correct. It is called Documentary Poetry. An established document essentially chopped. In this instance, the Declaration of Independence. I did this one blind, line by line, by highlighting what I thought was important in each. This is the end result. Trying to stay sane by trying new things.
13th Apr 2020 11:50pm
Well, I think you did a great job. Very cool - appealed to my love for nature :)
20th Apr 2020 2:03am
Perhaps you'd like my most popular poem... :)
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/369916-united-we-stand/
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/369916-united-we-stand/
13th Apr 2020 11:57pm
14th Apr 2020 00:00am
14th Apr 2020 7:11am
Nice documentry poem. You keep on fighting the cause of the virus, and give us hope. Keep on writing.
14th Apr 2020 8:06am
