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Best Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You Poems


Premium Member America 101
When I was born in 1949, Harry Truman was the President of The United States.  Of course I do not personally remember him.  Mr. Truman was followed by Mr. Dwight Eisenhower, but I just vaguely remember him.  However, the first President that...

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Categories: ask not what your country can do for you, celebration, patriotic,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member John F Kennedy
she was dressed in pink 

   excited people lined  streets 

      red roses she held

         a senseless act took a life  

his demise a nation mourned


2/24/2016

A fragment of...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ask not what your country can do for you, grief, murder,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Poesy In Service of Strength -- January 20, 1961
Eight inches of snow saw no hat on his head
an act of derring-do, my father said,
   He ascended the steps
   the eyes of the world upon him
   An orator attacking the lectern
   ~ Camelot, out to shatter...

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Categories: ask not what your country can do for you, dream, inspiration, leadership, spoken
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Good Knife Me

Ask not what your country can do for you,
don’t question whether your nation will bleed 
red, white and blue true
Tax bleed thru and thru for you
Ask instead what good sacrifice will you offer to do
Will you take a kitchen knife
and split your chubby checkbook in...

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Categories: ask not what your country can do for you, humorous, motivation, political, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Whats Great About Britain
Great Britain !

What is actually Great about Britain ?

Is it our overriding sense of Virtue ?

How we feel it is our God given right to criticize ?

Or present our way of life and values to aspire to ?

Who made us the Referee's of the World...

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Categories: ask not what your country can do for you, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Privellege
The Privilege

I hold this truth to be self-evident
that freedom is not a right
it is a privilege
given to us not only by the courageous people
who sacrifice there own freedom
to battle the forces that would strip us
of what we seemingly take for granted
but also to those who...

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Categories: ask not what your country can do for you, political
Form: Prose Poetry



Stepping Through Time
A sojourner,  I cross the years to look
   sliding pass the history books
and read while listening.

Stepping through time, moments of tenacity finds
   while I follow the spoken words
and seek the speaker today still heard.

The parade flows endless through the streets
...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ask not what your country can do for you, history, memory, time,
Form: Verse
Ask Not
we must have forgotten...
the pyramid's foundation, rotten.
Physiological begets Safety.
shadowing the State of coercion, states thee.
opt-in by creation, opt-out, your expiration.
tread on me and my countrymen.
volition ours, to sunder friends?
participated.  
regulated.  
complied.
the time, overdue.
ask not what your country can do for you....

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Categories: ask not what your country can do for you, community, inspiration, patriotic, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lesser Of Two Evils
The Lesser Of Two Evils
(Always Gets My Vote)
Miracle Man
10/7/2024

What once were blatant lies, 
are now merely, “I misspoke.“
Are us non degree folks stupid,
or is it another political joke?

Politicians tour the country smiling,
shaking hands and grooving.
But a clue to their “misspeaking”,
they’re lips are always moving.

While they...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ask not what your country can do for you, truth, voice, words,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry