Tuesday, July 8

The State Motto Poetry Challenge

O.K...here are the guidelines I followed for this challenge. I used state mottos from all 50 states. The motto kept its integrity. I also did not add any other words other than what is in the motto itself. Here it is...
Wutsamotto U?
If you seek a pleasant peninsula,
look about you, I have found it!
While I breathe, I hope the life
of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.
Forward it grows as it goes,
ever upward, by and by,
let it be perpetual.
Mountaineers are always free!
Strength from the soil God enriches.
He who transplanted sustains nothing without
providence...
state sovereignty, national union,
wisdom, justice and moderation.
Liberty and independence.
Agriculture and commerce,
gold and silver...
I direct the crossroads of America!
Our liberties we prize
and our rights we will maintain
to be rather than to seem.
The welfare of the people is the highest law.
Labor conquers all things...
virtue, liberty and independence.
Friendship, union, justice and confidence.
Industry, freedom and unity.
Hope.
Under God, the people rule by valor and arms.
We dare defend our rights, equal rights, by the
sword.
We seek peace only under liberty,
liberty and prosperity,
equality before the law.
She flys with her own wings
to the stars through adversity-
manly deeds, womanly words-
north to the future.
The star of the North.
United we stand, divided we fall,
all for our country.
In God we trust all things are possible
Live free or die with God,
Thus always to tyrants!

1 comment:

Mark said...

There is truly no reason for me to compose a poem when this triumph of literature--and of the human spirit--is floating out there in cyberspace. Well done!