Monday, January 09, 2012

crimson bars – v2

hearing the words
echoes of our past
humble bits of guidance
that is meant to last

reminiscent of the banner waving
the tattered sentinel
over the battlements
attesting to our freedom

crimson bars
between the rows of white
under the stars
our freedom burns bright

the blood of our heroes
given for us, for this nation
standing watch in the darkness
that we would be free

the cost of freedom
our banner flying o’er them
the blood of our youth
on guard, on station
in places beyond our shores



January 9, 2012
I began writing the title for this poem
at the Poet’s Corner,
our monthly poetry group,
Suncook Senior Center
after hearing again a reading of the poem,
“Barbara Freitchie”,
by John Greenleaf Whittier
&
Star Spangled Banner,
based on the poem, “Defence of Fort McHenry”,
written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer
and amateur poet Francis Scott Key
&
New Hampshire Primary, January 10, 2012



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