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.

[The dark story]

brilliantly penned.
"This is my homeland!
A lucid diamond in scented bowers."...there were so many beautiful lines there, but these were the most beautiful of them all for me. in an anime, it's said:
"where ever someone thinks about you, that's where home is."

[DCT ponderings]

Sami home is where the heart lives and yours flows in every line of this exquisite write. You never cease to move me in your inner divine essence. By the end I was undone, fire in my mind you have captivated this wanderer. Sounds to me like the promised land.

[TL Boehm]

This is the New World!
These are my gnarled hands...

this is anthemic - a march - a song - well penned

[twain]

Nice I enjoyed the read, its so full of truth, I look forward to reading more.

[Shweta Singh]

some well done thoughts along these lines...summing up the contingency, solidarity & irony...keep writing my dear poet..

[Myenigma]

great tribute to our heros and soildiers.
"You fire the mind of a poet and captivate
the heart of a wanderer, and in your love
I shall find life's fulfillment"
my favorite verse

[David Scott]

So often the artistic world laments this fair, fair land.
I find this poem so refreshing in the appreciation of a country that modern sophistication feels in vogue to humiliate.
Sami, I loved this poem.

[L.Edward]

Whoa, man you are a one man poetic powerhouse. Absolutely no place like home. I feel that way about the whole planet. Of course there are always those extra special places. I was born in Australia but from time to time I get that longing for ancestral turf in Scotland or Scandanavia, through my celtic roots. The lands which shaped the conciousness of my ancestors and which lives on in me still. That bond is timeless.

[NA]

Excellent read....enjoyed :) x

[Kristin Lee]

What a tribute. These words hold a lot of passion for a great country.