It’s Monday in America

It’s Monday in America:

a new day dawing

an evil era waning

as we unite

– both, left and right:

agree to disagree

most respectfully

and bridge the divide

with determined stride

though battle scared

as esteemed leaders spared

together, we’ll seam

the American dream…O’Prunty

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AN AMERICAN HORROR

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Only
Stephen King

D-DAY WARRIORS

By Charles Robert Lindholm

D-Day
Is About
All Who Fought,
Not About Politics Or
Presidents

Copyright © 2019 Charles Robert Lindholm, The Reluctant Poet
All Rights Reserved – 06.06.2019 – 11:40 A.M.
75th Anniversary Of D-Day Invasion Of Normandy On June 6th 1944

D-DAY HEROES

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Our
Heroes Fought
And Died So
The World Could Have
Freedom

Copyright © 2019 Charles Robert Lindholm, The Reluctant Poet
All Rights Reserved – 06.06.2019 – 11:30 a.m. – D-Day – The Invasion Of Normandy

VIOLATING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION CLAUSE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Imposing
Religious Ideology
Using Governmental Legislation

AN AMERICAN HORROR

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Only
Stephen King

Liberty’s Lament

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

I stand alone agape in horror, my heart beat racing as voices o’er the sea and land decry in throes, “Liar! Temptress!” sustained echoes that bend their eyes upon my stead, recounting words I’ve loved and said, “Give me your tired, your poor, your tost”, meant in truth but somehow lost.

HAIKU: FREEDOM IS FOR ALL!!

By Charles Robert Lindholm

FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS

HAIKU: FLYING IN THE SKY

By Charles Robert Lindholm

If  I Could Choose, I

A MESSAGE TO AMERICA ON MARTIN LUTHER KING’S BIRTHDAY

THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE

BY CHARLES ROBERT LINDHOLM 

How free are the free
How brave are the brave
In America today? 

Have we learned our lessons
From the past
Or are we doomed
To repeat our errors, again? 

HAIKU: WE DON’T HAVE A KING

By Charles Robert Lindholm

We Don’t Have A King

HAIKU: BREAKING RULES

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I love breaking rules

THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE —————————————————————————————————————————————-A MESSAGE FOR AMERICA

BY CHARLES ROBERT LINDHOLM 

How free are the free
How brave are the brave
In America today? 

Have we learned our lessons
From the past
Or are we doomed
To repeat our errors, again? 

HAIKU: JUNGLE DRUMS

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Jungle drums beating

Lady Liberty

Turn off the torch;
douse the light to the storm and,
those adrift.
Tear down her raised arm,
a beacon no more,
just a statue off-shore,
no more “world-wide welcome,”
no more “golden door.”

What Is Freedom

Another Friday prompt from Kellie Elmore using a photo as inspiration:

Use the image at the following link as your inspiration. I can’t wait to read the responses to this one! http://1x.com/photo/45546/

I hope everyone will visit her blog and check out all the talented writers.

Today we have so much talk of freedoms
Having the right to do whatever we dream
But is that truly what freedom should be
Are those rights as free as they seem.

Anatomy

 

Your crooked smile foxed me

into believing I was in.

That I had solved the riddle without a clue,

enchanted the lock that knew no key.

Your eyes, half shut, whispered unknowable truths

of freedom, liberty.

A freedom with the potential to become ingrained

in the heart I used to call my own

but gave to you, recklessly loaned indefinitely.