Liberty

by Cecilia A Heiskary

America she is the best

Better than all the rest

She has been through tough times

It's been a big upward climb

We beat the British for our liberty

Now we are a country of possibilities

In our country, all men are created equal

We don't want another sequel

Here you can be anything you want

This country is nonchalant

She was born for all men to be free

So come across the big sea

Life and liberty is what we stand for

We will stay that way for ever more

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One Line from the Declaration writing prompt entry

Writing Prompt
Happy Fourth of July! This contest invites you to draw inspiration from one of the lines below from the Declaration of Independence. Use that line as the seed for your poem.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident"

"All men are created equal"

"Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness"

"He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good"

"Governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

"A long train of abuses and usurpations"

"It is their right it is their duty to throw off such government"

"For imposing taxes on us without our consent"

"To secure these rights governments are instituted among men"

"Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions"

"With a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence we mutually pledge to each other our Lives our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"

"The separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them"

Please include the chosen line in your author's notes when you submit your poem. Have fun!

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