Poems about America and being American
#America
Poems about America and American culture, history, politics and lifestyle. Also poems about places, states and cities within America, and poetry about American poets and famous American people.
I am afraid of what my Husband has become
He has drained all of my resources
And makes me work day to night
I can’t escape because the money
He takes funds a genocide
He has control over my body
And what I may not do
He poisons my food and water
And feeds me prescriptions until I’m blue
He sent our child to school
Knowing the teacher is armed and loaded
There is no place to go where
His morality hasn’t folded
He’ll silence me completely
If I do not stand up now
America is our abuser
And our time to rise...
And makes me work day to night
I can’t escape because the money
He takes funds a genocide
He has control over my body
And what I may not do
He poisons my food and water
And feeds me prescriptions until I’m blue
He sent our child to school
Knowing the teacher is armed and loaded
There is no place to go where
His morality hasn’t folded
He’ll silence me completely
If I do not stand up now
America is our abuser
And our time to rise...
#America
#NaPoWriMo2024
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Be My Getaway Driver
Wound up, lucid, in my American daydreams
News, sounding like high density magazines
With red, paintings, draining from the curbs
Hiring getaway drivers to just escape the burbs
Rich rain, white shirts, flying from Yacht Towers
How, we're all neighbors? Thick hedge flowers
Eyes shut, popping blue pills just to make money
Political kerosene, smelling sweeter than honey
Please, pinch me by the throat, I won't scream
Be my getaway driver, take me from this dream
News, sounding like high density magazines
With red, paintings, draining from the curbs
Hiring getaway drivers to just escape the burbs
Rich rain, white shirts, flying from Yacht Towers
How, we're all neighbors? Thick hedge flowers
Eyes shut, popping blue pills just to make money
Political kerosene, smelling sweeter than honey
Please, pinch me by the throat, I won't scream
Be my getaway driver, take me from this dream
#America
#corruption
#dreams
#NaPoWriMo2024
#politics
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Town of Dust and Bones
The street light buzzes day into night
yesterdays stench lingers in the summer air
wrinkles on my face from many days gone by
I say goodnight to Kelly Jo as she flips her sign to closed
Gailan holding onto the hope tomorrow may bring
no good answer for what comes next
still got fight left in us so we battle on
Theron gives me a wave and a smile
walk into Benny's he pours me a malbec
Rob at the end of the bar calls me a snob
raises his glass rings out an old Irish toast
the pet store closed so did the grain elevator
got a grant for...
yesterdays stench lingers in the summer air
wrinkles on my face from many days gone by
I say goodnight to Kelly Jo as she flips her sign to closed
Gailan holding onto the hope tomorrow may bring
no good answer for what comes next
still got fight left in us so we battle on
Theron gives me a wave and a smile
walk into Benny's he pours me a malbec
Rob at the end of the bar calls me a snob
raises his glass rings out an old Irish toast
the pet store closed so did the grain elevator
got a grant for...
#identity
#America
#tradition
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8 Comments
Rhe francisi
Rhe cushy
Blake and the bland
Old cottage .
Creamy white and Drucker
Plainman.
Raising vids and birds
At a sep.
Nusty orange in a cookie
And drafts the plain plans.
Kye flying 32.47
Blake and the bland
Old cottage .
Creamy white and Drucker
Plainman.
Raising vids and birds
At a sep.
Nusty orange in a cookie
And drafts the plain plans.
Kye flying 32.47
#America
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Secrets Buried in their Assholes!
#lies
#corruption
#politics
#America
#rhyming
36 reads
8 Comments
Perverted PA
#erotic
#America
#funny
#dirty
#passion
146 reads
11 Comments
Atalin.
Lamp
Of West and Esst.
Of West and Esst.
#America
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Great American Jackalope
mythical animal
of
north american folklore
sometimes referred to as
'horned' hares or
'warty' rabbits
jackalope
a portmanteau of jackrabbit
and antelope.
most often described
as a jackrabbit
with antelope horns
tales of horned hares have long existed
likely inspired by sightings
of rabbits infected with shope-papilloma virus,
causing horn-and antler-like
tumors
on a rabbit's head and body.
in central america,
ancient huichol
oral tradition
passed...
of
north american folklore
sometimes referred to as
'horned' hares or
'warty' rabbits
jackalope
a portmanteau of jackrabbit
and antelope.
most often described
as a jackrabbit
with antelope horns
tales of horned hares have long existed
likely inspired by sightings
of rabbits infected with shope-papilloma virus,
causing horn-and antler-like
tumors
on a rabbit's head and body.
in central america,
ancient huichol
oral tradition
passed...
#America
#funny
#unicorns #mythology
#unicorns #mythology
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1 Comment
Lupe Vélez
It’s your beautiful ending.
It’s your careless sigh.
It’s the way that you ended,
Without a real goodbye.
Aa Harvey © All Rights Reserved 2023 [/font]
It’s your careless sigh.
It’s the way that you ended,
Without a real goodbye.
Aa Harvey © All Rights Reserved 2023 [/font]
#identity
#death
#America
#ShortStory
#PopCulture
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Machine Guns in the Park
I love my new park
It has two half basketball courts.
A lake.
A wide u-shaped fountain,
where one can sit on benches
comforted by the sound
of rivulets of water cascading down stone.
That is as long as one isn't interrupted by the staccato of machine gun fire
Fake is better than the real thing.
Far, far better.
But a plastic machine gun
complete with real sound effects! (sans the tortured, terrorized screams of innocent people- maybe that costs extra)
in the hands of a four year old
is disconcerting. ...
It has two half basketball courts.
A lake.
A wide u-shaped fountain,
where one can sit on benches
comforted by the sound
of rivulets of water cascading down stone.
That is as long as one isn't interrupted by the staccato of machine gun fire
Fake is better than the real thing.
Far, far better.
But a plastic machine gun
complete with real sound effects! (sans the tortured, terrorized screams of innocent people- maybe that costs extra)
in the hands of a four year old
is disconcerting. ...
#anger
#GunControl
#America
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9 Comments
by the slice
I feel it!
in my stomach
that low vibration
of want...
need
I crave pizza
not a whole pie
mind you
just a slice or
two
but there is a
problem
around here most
of the pizza shops
that sell by the slice
are already closed
leaving me with the
damnable choice of
a dozen cookie cutter
big outfit cooperate
America pizza chains
with their crust that
taste like paste
their cheese as flat
as a glass bottom
boat...
in my stomach
that low vibration
of want...
need
I crave pizza
not a whole pie
mind you
just a slice or
two
but there is a
problem
around here most
of the pizza shops
that sell by the slice
are already closed
leaving me with the
damnable choice of
a dozen cookie cutter
big outfit cooperate
America pizza chains
with their crust that
taste like paste
their cheese as flat
as a glass bottom
boat...
#America
#city
#prison
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4 Comments
US Election 2024
Sorry world,
I no longer believe a word anyone says about anything,
and I do not have the energy to argue with nitwits anymore.
For the third election in a row the claims will be evil versus evil, liar versus liar, corrupt versus corrupt, and they aren't necessarily wrong on either side about the other.
If it isn't obvious by now that this system is designed to provide terrible choices for voters, which became transparent when the Democrats shafted Sanders, the person whom really most Americans supported, America will never get there, and the only way it will change now...
I no longer believe a word anyone says about anything,
and I do not have the energy to argue with nitwits anymore.
For the third election in a row the claims will be evil versus evil, liar versus liar, corrupt versus corrupt, and they aren't necessarily wrong on either side about the other.
If it isn't obvious by now that this system is designed to provide terrible choices for voters, which became transparent when the Democrats shafted Sanders, the person whom really most Americans supported, America will never get there, and the only way it will change now...
#violence
#politics
#war #America
#war #America
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