HOMELAND

A celebration of America's day and the natural wonders...

HOMELAND/By Sami Khalil

( A celebration of America's day, its ideals and the natural wonders ) 

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This is the land!

Your pledge of allegiance

Your exile... forsaken 

Your fertile imagination

Your stripes and colors

You blood flows through

Hopes and dreams proffered 

This is the land!

that loamed your cinch

with golden moments

with outre' dreams

with madrigal realities

with brave's therondies

where its timeless freedoms

breathe the air of knowing

that all men are created equal

even the festooned distaffs too

with merited causes of liberty

that knows neither sopors nor slumber

and justice is blessed with blindness.

This is the day!

For the miens of unsung heroes

For the visages of mantic moons.

For the outward manifestation

For the inner divine essence.

This is my homeland!

A lucid diamond in scented bowers.

You fire the mind of a poet and captivate 

the heart of a wanderer, and in your love 

I shall find life's fulfillment, and in your 

school of nature, I shall learn the art of

living truth but in your sorrow, I shall 

lament with the widowed for in our gilded 

peaks we lost the summit to the wrath

of man reaping his fruits which courses

now in our bodies, minds and souls.

This is the New World!

These are my gnarled hands...

Reviews

[Jimmy Yetts]

(This review, of course, applies to those words I actually understood. The poet's flowery vocabulary often exceeds my level of expertise--even when I use a dictionary attempting to decode phrases. Obviously, my failing.)
Soaring ode to a wounded giant; extolling the inspired principles upon which the United States was founded.
Raises up its basically good, hard-working people.
Truly heartwarming, Sami!
Thank you.

[Sam]

Sorry Sami but i found a typo at least i think:
You blood flows through... should it say Your blood flows through?

I love it the flow the style, it is all great. Love the images you share woven in every line.
A wonderful read and wonderful write. Thank you for sharing

[Rafia ~ Yellow Girl]

So many things in a single poem, found it difficult to keep track of all. Thanks for putting such a marvelous piece. :)

[Sam A]

Well spoken words of the idea that is this Country at her best. If only we could keep her so!

[SHEEMA HUQ]

Oh the complexities of liberty and nationalism (on the negative side, in some ways the bane of many civil unrests and wars of course, the cause of human sacrifices, prejudices and the loss of life)......though what is inspiring about this particular poem, is how you uniquely express your allegiance to the US flag, with such cross cultural dignity, great writing here!

[Mina]

You are one amazing poet ;)
Love all your work
You have a classic style of poetry

[The Verse: A Poetry Jou..]

I like the metaphors and lucid images, Patriotic, but real. Amazing piece.

[Angi]

I am so happy to see someone writing a praise to this great country, Sami. So many 'America' poems have slammed this land. There are so many beautiful things here. Angi~

[Rahul]

Awesome write once again :) i loved the theme you used here.

[Patrick O'Neil]

I think you only touched on it lightly with this line " I shall lament with the widowed for in our gilded
peaks we lost the summit to the wrath"...But we all know that the land of the fee was paid for by blood.

[Shaun Payton]

We have many ideals, and many hopes for freedom. We fight each other too much, we insult each other too much...this is a hopeful inspiring piece Sami..But all it is is land...its the people who inhabit the land that define interactions and freedom through words and actions.