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.

[Traci]

A beautiful tribute Sami, very appropriate for this week, nicely done!

[icelandicblue]

This is a really beautiful tribute. I love those last lines:

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

I love the contrast of those lines.

[SyberRose]

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.

What a beautiful write this is Sami...and thank you for writing this lovely piece and honoring our country.
Very touching words from you...Rose:)

[Rita L. Sev]

This reads like a celebration, Sami! Very nice! A good write for this week :)

[Rogue]

This is a nice tribute for a country that is even now still young and struggling through it's growing pains.

I have noticed recently a change up of your usual style. More a free form list type prose, whereas you spent quite some time before on long and graceful lines of prose. I enjoy both from you as you uniquely capture both styles well. :)

Now... What's that? Did you say request lines are open?
-dials quickly-
Um, yes... I'd like to request you play a good old fashioned Sami Khalil romance.
-listens to voice on the other end of the line-
You will? Wonderful! I have so missed them!
-happy sigh-

:D

[Sami Khalil]

A celebration of America's day and the natural wonders...
Happy Birthday America.
Enjoy.
Note : Gnarled hands is a metaphor that you have to build something and sustain it and not just talk about it. You have to contribute to it...:)