Today we celebrate and give thanks for those who made our freedoms attainable. Any kind of short burst of patriotic poetic explosion will be appreciated today. Here, we do it in Fourteen lines or less!
Dusk has fallen and the call of Taps rings true. Day is done and our Independence remains secure for one more year. The skies darken and the first volley is placed. Evening laced with bursts of color and light, brightly; explosions in barrage preceding every sparkle, freedom’s torch ignited - twilight's last gleaming shines bright; nightly!
Seven stripes of red bars on Old Glory signify the blood shed by those brave soldiers who gave their lives so we could be free and not enslaved as many nations in the world today. It remains the greatest sacrifice one can make to keep America free. It is an act of love: no tyrant can lay claim to the heart and soul of us.
Six stripes of white bars represents the purity of America’s intentions when engaged in acts of war to not allow the white to be sullied with selfish motives but rather with a noble conviction that all should be free, that all citizens take pride in the nation that they love. The memory of all Americans is woven in this flag.
FANFARE
ReplyDeleteDusk has fallen
and the call of Taps rings true.
Day is done and our
Independence remains secure
for one more year.
The skies darken and the first
volley is placed.
Evening laced with bursts of
color and light, brightly;
explosions in barrage
preceding every sparkle,
freedom’s torch ignited -
twilight's last gleaming
shines bright; nightly!
(C) Walter J Wojtanik, 2014
STARS AND STRIPES
ReplyDeleteSeven stripes of red bars on Old Glory signify the blood
shed by those brave soldiers who gave their lives so we
could be free and not enslaved as many nations in
the world today. It remains the greatest sacrifice
one can make to keep America free. It is an act of love:
no tyrant can lay claim to the heart and soul of us.
Six stripes of white bars represents the purity
of America’s intentions when engaged in acts of war
to not allow the white to be sullied with selfish motives
but rather with a noble conviction that all should be free,
that all citizens take pride in the nation that they love.
The memory of all Americans is woven in this flag.
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