Best Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You Poems
America 101When 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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ask not what your country can do for you, celebration, patriotic,
Form:
Prose Poetry
John F Kennedyshe 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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ask not what your country can do for you, grief, murder,
Form:
Tanka
Poesy In Service of Strength -- January 20, 1961Eight 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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ask not what your country can do for you, dream, inspiration, leadership, spoken
Form:
Rhyme
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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ask not what your country can do for you, humorous, motivation, political, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
Whats Great About BritainGreat 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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ask not what your country can do for you, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
The PrivellegeThe 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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ask not what your country can do for you, political
Form:
Prose Poetry
Stepping Through TimeA 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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ask not what your country can do for you, history, memory, time,
Form:
Verse
Ask Notwe 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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ask not what your country can do for you, community, inspiration, patriotic, political,
Form:
Free verse
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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ask not what your country can do for you, truth, voice, words,
Form:
Quatrain