It is the American Dream
What we all strive for and imagine
Indouble-wide trailers to double-wide mansions
In sprouting lakes of fake fish.
Nothing captures its essence
Unbound by time or dust or rot
The thingswe cherish still are lovingly patted
And brought through thecenturies.
It is more than a dream now
It's a reality that the millionshave made
Our heart and soul builds the heaven on earth.
A refuge for thesick,
And a shelter for the needy,
It is everything we desire.
Inthe cherry trucks and laughing children
To indolent teenagers with smokecircling
We see our dream and the actuality
It may not be perfect, but itis our heaven
And so disillusioned we conjure forth our hope.
In thepicket fences we see our childhood
In the sky we see our adulthood
And inthe middle we see our life.
Suspended, but not contained,
It is the dreamthat wakes within us all.
Miss Liberty by Thylias Moss
Miss Liberty is green, the horizon and sky
plus yellow skin.
She is a minority too, color
of ridiculous Martian fable
and not a man.
Handicapped, disabled.
Another immigrant.
I am waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
and I am waiting
for the American Eagle
to really spread its wings
and straighten up and fly right
and I am waiting
for the Age of Anxiety
to drop dead
and I am waiting
for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe
for anarchy
and I am waiting
for the final withering away
of all governments
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder
(fragment)
America America by Gary R. Hess
America America
The land of the brave
I love you so dearly
But they treat you so bad
The politicians and business men
Treat you like mad
What we once loved is suddenly fading
Our dreams won't come true
Our lives broken for you
We need to preserve the great nation
And turn it from bad
For you are our hope
And everything for we stand
Another poem by Gary R.Hess...
Hundreds of dollars spent on time
Money wasted for every being
Getting hurt every moment
Losing faith this very second
What is there to do in this life?
Knowing I won't have what I need
Not the house or secure job
Not the right life to live
America the great
Or injustice
That's the way it is
In this great nation
The poor can't succeed
The poor can't live
The poor can't live love
America is misery
The American Dreams by Genghis Lotus (Collection of 2 poems)
It is a land of dreams.
What is important, in America,
Is not
The transitional now,
The steam press laundry,
The cardboard box,
The call center avalanche,
But the glistening pearls of the future,
The future which the dream will deliver.
The dream, it is hypothesized,
Is always achievable.
Barriers are there to be surmounted.
The hippopotamus of improbability
Is there to be dismissed.
America
Dreams that the impossible is possible,
That the son of, say,
A Kenyan goatherd,
Can beanstalk in one stupendous bound
Right to the Oval Office.
It is the conceit of American analytics
That anyone can do this if they try,
As long as they try
Hard enough.
We imagine that a million
Do try.
And succeed.
A million eyeballs implode
To the single office.
Instant pate!
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Americans value, fiercely,
Their right to enjoy the wealth
They will one day achieve
(Though not necessarily in this lifetime).
In that yet-to-be-accessed world
Of unlimited splurges,
All giveable gifts will be given.
Meantime, in the quotidian mundane,
The average American is still affluent enough
To supersize everything.
The American dream is certainly achievable
At the level of the hamburger.
I confess to liking
American books,
American movies
And American music.
But the hamburger?
No, that doesn't do it for me.
However,
The universally available hot apple pie,
Found on sale right around the planet,
That part of the American dream I can live.
American Dream By Joseph MangravitiYou certainly have food on your kitchen table And a roof over a smart head – very capable! A great business, a family, friends and esteem! You, Champ, have realized the American dream. The time has come for you to reach beyond, Beyond the dream, so to stardom you can bond. Let your skills, talents and capabilities shine. Bring heaven down to earth by attentive design. You make a delicious sauce and also fine wine. Hunting, fishing and sports are daringly divine. Now cross the ocean, fly the air; just don’t quit! Listen to your call: embrace life opportunities! Be all you can be: to fine goals yourself commit. Spread your wings and fly high beyond the skies |
