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.

[brandon]

like a big creative cooking pot, filled to the top with passion, made me want to come back for more!

[Emily B]

so stirring and patriotic and beautiful

thank you

[Dhaye]

This is it! Another excellent piece from the one and only Sami.

Everything is perfect- the image, the concept, the choice of words, the literary device (alliteration), and though this is a free verse, it has a an amazing rhythm (I told you before I really like free verse).

I love the 4th stanza where you mentioned how your homeland fire the mind of a poet, how you learn art and how you lament in it's sorrow.

So inspiring and commendable. Everyone should love his homeland...
Excellent piece!

[tuvi]

wow.... I really liked the image you used along with it ... if thats also your work then I must say you are freaking good at art :P
on the contrary if its not your's then I must thank you for using such a beautiful image to compliment your write up ..

Now the real part of write up .... its material of some substantially good vocab.
I could feel some disconsolateness within a budding newness...

Like always you leave me impressed with your work :)
Thanks for the share :)

Tuvi

[Gypsy Dreamer]

Wonderfully written Sami. You took me in; I felt your words. I love when someone can make words into a substance for others to feel. I felt a sadness within a blooming of newness. I love it.

[emmajoy]

Your words are as colourful as the painting (which is glorious), you use your thoughts to display the negatives as well as positives, finding truth and awareness of how your vast country is. Great writing and proud.

[Brandon S. Whitten]

Always a timeless write and splendid read.

[quinfinn]

this entire piece is golden, but the last two lines are pure platinum. you get better and more intricate every time i read you, dear Sami, well done!

[Travis Gibson (poetic h..]

Expertly crafted piece! You seem to make gold of words, my friend. Excellent write.

[annie lee]

This is an impressive poem written by a very erudite person. The sentiments leap out at the reader and ring true. These words gently acknowledge too the frailties of this homeland and its peoples. I admire the writer's ability to embrace the high spirit of the homeland and temper that spirit with the knowledge of its baser urges and failings. But I gotta ask: what does this phrase mean? "that loamed your cinch" -- it threw me for a loop and I had to research the words, thinking that were usages I was unaware of -- and though I could not find that usage in old Merriam-Webster, there obviously is an alternate usage. Please let me know. This is a poem whose cadence is almost like an anthem. Bravo.