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.
Breedlove
Poem Published
4th Jun 2021 11:47pm
4th Jun 2021 11:47pm
Welcome Home to Ireland Boy
Walking through Tacumshane
Early Easter Monday morning
I saw the spirit of a man
Like dust through amber light
He pointed to his left at
What appeared to be
A billion so flashing lives
All Irish proud and free
They may have left the Island
But their names remain the same
I've been dead awhile my friend
But our blood runs through your veins
Then he introduced him self to me
Informally as John Barry
And having been a sailor once
I knew exactly who he was
Welcome home to Ireland boy
you've been gone...
Early Easter Monday morning
I saw the spirit of a man
Like dust through amber light
He pointed to his left at
What appeared to be
A billion so flashing lives
All Irish proud and free
They may have left the Island
But their names remain the same
I've been dead awhile my friend
But our blood runs through your veins
Then he introduced him self to me
Informally as John Barry
And having been a sailor once
I knew exactly who he was
Welcome home to Ireland boy
you've been gone...
#home
#America
#utopia #beach
#utopia #beach
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Breedlove
Poem Published
31st May 2021 6:44pm
31st May 2021 6:44pm
Rivervalley
Cancer Valley
Spaghetti Bowl
Playground of my youth
Riding bikes
Forbidden lawn
Never stopped me
Just made me vigilant
Smoke stacks high
Turn falling snow
Brown in the night
Like the junk today
Turning my memories
Into direlect apartments
Pine cones and syringes
Swept to the curb
Death of everything
Jobs, lives, the future
Bleak
Spaghetti Bowl
Playground of my youth
Riding bikes
Forbidden lawn
Never stopped me
Just made me vigilant
Smoke stacks high
Turn falling snow
Brown in the night
Like the junk today
Turning my memories
Into direlect apartments
Pine cones and syringes
Swept to the curb
Death of everything
Jobs, lives, the future
Bleak
#dark
#America
#poverty
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prometheus5290
Poem Published
31st May 2021 4:42am
31st May 2021 4:42am
levy
I am done
boxing
the tidal wave
boxing
the tidal wave
#America
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da_poetic-edifier
Damon
Damon
Poem Published
28th May 2021 8:40pm
28th May 2021 8:40pm
Stand, Brethren
Would you ask the Jewish community to humbly stand?
For an anthem whose origins relished in deaths of their man
Would you demand that they capitulate then berate nonconformers?
If a stanza about the Holocaust was lost, would that be the answer?
An erasure of a few words don't deserve to be praised
But when it comes to the chattel slave, no one is phased
That's depraved and has raised these questions
Oh say can you see the hypocrisy in the equations
Is there a subtraction of empathy for he that looks like me?
Making it hard for you...
For an anthem whose origins relished in deaths of their man
Would you demand that they capitulate then berate nonconformers?
If a stanza about the Holocaust was lost, would that be the answer?
An erasure of a few words don't deserve to be praised
But when it comes to the chattel slave, no one is phased
That's depraved and has raised these questions
Oh say can you see the hypocrisy in the equations
Is there a subtraction of empathy for he that looks like me?
Making it hard for you...
#America
#hypocrisy
#apathy
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Cipher_O
Poem Published
19th May 2021 4:37am
19th May 2021 4:37am
The Tear or The Fear
What exists in the composition of a tear in the light?
As the sun spirals in the spaces of death in wire mesh
Metallic chakras
Bursting in pin holes like the souls of childhood innocence
Lost in a complex of levers and pulleys and misappropriation
The only lesson to be learned is absence in a multitude of forms
Redefined as the thought process transforms in institutional whites
The given softwares girt the leviathan in courageous demigod postures
Shattered and scattered
Rowboats in smithereens of artificial manufactured mundane matrixes ...
As the sun spirals in the spaces of death in wire mesh
Metallic chakras
Bursting in pin holes like the souls of childhood innocence
Lost in a complex of levers and pulleys and misappropriation
The only lesson to be learned is absence in a multitude of forms
Redefined as the thought process transforms in institutional whites
The given softwares girt the leviathan in courageous demigod postures
Shattered and scattered
Rowboats in smithereens of artificial manufactured mundane matrixes ...
#America
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oskar
Poem Published
17th May 2021 9:09am
17th May 2021 9:09am
occupation
The occupation
Black is yellow
Amber is green
War is peace
And everything is the truth
When spoken from an autocue.
By a man who never got
An Oscar.
More wars in Afghanistan
And it will go on till someone loses
In this case, the invaders.
A dead sea of suffering
May the west be forgiven
Trespassing
In the Middle East.
In the end, Israel
The western transplant
Will not set root.
Two thousand years is a long time.
Black is yellow
Amber is green
War is peace
And everything is the truth
When spoken from an autocue.
By a man who never got
An Oscar.
More wars in Afghanistan
And it will go on till someone loses
In this case, the invaders.
A dead sea of suffering
May the west be forgiven
Trespassing
In the Middle East.
In the end, Israel
The western transplant
Will not set root.
Two thousand years is a long time.
#America
#school
#utopia
#beach
#prison
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goldenmyst
Poem Published
15th May 2021 4:54am
15th May 2021 4:54am
Kokopelli on America
Kokopelli on America
Kokopelli’s flute dawns on sundial scarabs
Who cling to blue corn husks
Deep in beetled discography
Of petaled birth rites
In grottos where frogs are citizens
Where hopscotch is made of butter
That melts into candy crucifixes
Kokopelli’s flute dawns on sundial scarabs
Who cling to blue corn husks
Deep in beetled discography
Of petaled birth rites
In grottos where frogs are citizens
Where hopscotch is made of butter
That melts into candy crucifixes
#dreams
#America
#mythology #surreal
#mythology #surreal
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da_poetic-edifier
Damon
Damon
Poem Published
12th May 2021 1:46am
12th May 2021 1:46am
Tethered To Nether
Your mind's been assimilated and that's assassinated your will to be free
Cerebrally castrated and emasculated by what you constantly see on T.V.
Murder in the first degree without ubiety; deteriorating your inner strength
Causing your energy to quickly crossover into a different wavelength
Sending your consciousness into the abyss of the nether regions
No longer wanting to see reality through sobriety's visions
Making the decision that dissonance is as bliss as ignorance
Frustration's got you contemplating copulation as a defense
...
Cerebrally castrated and emasculated by what you constantly see on T.V.
Murder in the first degree without ubiety; deteriorating your inner strength
Causing your energy to quickly crossover into a different wavelength
Sending your consciousness into the abyss of the nether regions
No longer wanting to see reality through sobriety's visions
Making the decision that dissonance is as bliss as ignorance
Frustration's got you contemplating copulation as a defense
...
#LifeStruggles
#America
#Africa
#freedom
#StreamOfConsciousness
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javalini
Poem Published
7th May 2021 12:46pm
7th May 2021 12:46pm
PARADISE DAYS
america,
you and i
were happier
than we knew
of course
i was young
and my darkest secrets
pale as ghosts
in the sweet
warm mayhem
of adolescent
summers
i was washing my old plymouth
in the parents' drive
while they watched TV
in the den --
tornadoes ripping
across the country,
China rising
as though from a long sleep
and our thirty seventh president
disgraced,
driven out of office,
boarding a fast plane
out of town,
his hands oddly raised
in peace...
you and i
were happier
than we knew
of course
i was young
and my darkest secrets
pale as ghosts
in the sweet
warm mayhem
of adolescent
summers
i was washing my old plymouth
in the parents' drive
while they watched TV
in the den --
tornadoes ripping
across the country,
China rising
as though from a long sleep
and our thirty seventh president
disgraced,
driven out of office,
boarding a fast plane
out of town,
his hands oddly raised
in peace...
#America
#SelfReflection
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Oslynray
Rosalyn
Rosalyn
Poem Published
21st Apr 2021 10:34am
21st Apr 2021 10:34am
Divided
Just when we get a victory,
The very first win...
Here comes the reminder:
This is a state we’ll always be in.
A country built from the labor of slaves,
I suppose I shouldn’t expect much more,
After all, this has always been their way,
To live our lives without fear is too much to ask for...
Instead we just have to say a prayer after we’ve opened the door.
Pray for a save return,
Because you never really know,
Never know when a homicidal manic may decide it’s time to feed his Ego.
They claim to fear for their lives, ...
The very first win...
Here comes the reminder:
This is a state we’ll always be in.
A country built from the labor of slaves,
I suppose I shouldn’t expect much more,
After all, this has always been their way,
To live our lives without fear is too much to ask for...
Instead we just have to say a prayer after we’ve opened the door.
Pray for a save return,
Because you never really know,
Never know when a homicidal manic may decide it’s time to feed his Ego.
They claim to fear for their lives, ...
#anger
#anxiety
#America
#racism
#despair
659 reads
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msmissingu
allisonw
allisonw
Poem Published
26th Feb 2021 9:42pm
26th Feb 2021 9:42pm
lonely star state
calling it quits
taking the road
Fuck the lonely star state
We all have to go cause
No one sticks around
I still wear the same shoes
The soles aren’t even worn yet but i'm losing you
my friends moving in with her boyfriend
They worked at the movies
First love. foreign to rejection
She’ll hold the same guy the rest of her life
I hold my heartbreak like it’s a trophy
I won
thought I was finally done
with the lone star state
taking the road
Fuck the lonely star state
We all have to go cause
No one sticks around
I still wear the same shoes
The soles aren’t even worn yet but i'm losing you
my friends moving in with her boyfriend
They worked at the movies
First love. foreign to rejection
She’ll hold the same guy the rest of her life
I hold my heartbreak like it’s a trophy
I won
thought I was finally done
with the lone star state
#sadness
#love
#heartbroken #America
#heartbroken #America
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mingomingus
SamTheSlam
SamTheSlam
Poem Published
7th Feb 2021 10:41pm
7th Feb 2021 10:41pm
California Blues (Fat Chance Slim Chance)
Movin’ to the city gonna to make it big
Fat Chance Slim Chance
You betta pull your rig
Cold Turkey
You put em all to sleep
You got to glaze your ham & smoke it down to New Orleans
Feelin’ kinda restless, tired of the South
Fat Chance Slim Chance
You better shut your mouth
Damn Yankees
They don’t know what from what
Take a trip out west to the land that’s full of fruits & nuts
Sinking California nothing gold can stay
Fat Chance Slim Chance
For Arizona Bay
These people
They surely make the news ...
Fat Chance Slim Chance
You betta pull your rig
Cold Turkey
You put em all to sleep
You got to glaze your ham & smoke it down to New Orleans
Feelin’ kinda restless, tired of the South
Fat Chance Slim Chance
You better shut your mouth
Damn Yankees
They don’t know what from what
Take a trip out west to the land that’s full of fruits & nuts
Sinking California nothing gold can stay
Fat Chance Slim Chance
For Arizona Bay
These people
They surely make the news ...
#America
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