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America Embraces Diversity

3/26/2016

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America blends her many faces into one beautiful mural – diversity is what makes her
      smart, interesting, a great place to call home!
America builds ships, bridges like the Golden Gate, skyscrapers like Willis
      Tower, synagogues like Beth Sholom.
America sings of purple mountains majesty and blue suede shoes and dancing
       in the streets and good-bye Miss American pie.
America writes about Chicago and disappearing buffalo and Salem witches and a
       trail of tears and Los Angeles smog.
America celebrates Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve in
       in Times Square, Presidents’ Day, Martin Luther King, and Fourth of July.
America eats hot dogs, apple pie, corn-on-the-cob, peach cobbler, McDonald’s Big Mac,
       okra and grits, Southern fried chicken, and lots of salads.
America wears red, white, and blue enthusiastically, her favorite color combination.
America sprawls from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Canadian border to Mexico.
America entertains ideas from Democrats and Republicans, Tea Party members,
       the Constitution party, Libertarians, and Socialists.
America discovers that it is not always easy to keep everyone happy (as Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can please some of the people some of the time….”)
America explores possibilities and pushes the envelope to create scholars and pioneers.
America moves rockets to the moon and back, tractor trailers from New York to
       California, school children to school and home again.
America invents the truths she needs to keep afloat – not always willing to look at herself
       in the mirror and admit that some things need to change.
America laughs with comedians like Seinfeld, Fallon, Chris Rock, Letterman, Murphy,
      Fey, Kimmel, and Louis C. K.
America cries when she loses a soldier, a president, a firefighter, a police officer, a child.
America vacations at her seashores and in the mountains, in Europe, Canada, and South
      of the Border.
America says, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your
      country!”
America teaches us democratic principles, to love our neighbors, to question, to share, to
      serve.
America flows in great rivers like the Mississippi and Missouri and Colorado.
America tells tall tales of Paul Bunyan, Stormalong, Johnny Appleseed, and Pecos Bill.
America has comic book heroes: Superman, Spiderman, Wonderwoman, the Iron Giant, Deadpool.
America comes from a bloody, fierce revolution to claim her independence.
America protects rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
America speaks out against injustices and injuries to our planet – even through its movie
     stars (Thank you, Leo!).
America shares its food, its knowledge, and its national treasures.
America dances the square dance, the jitterbug, the stomp, the electric slide, the monkey.
America paints like Andrew Wyeth, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Georgia O’Keeffe.
America plays baseball, soccer, football, hockey, lacrosse, and ice hockey.
America worships in synagogues, churches, mosques, meeting houses, and woodlands.
America blends her many faces into one beautiful mural – diversity is what makes her
      smart, interesting, a great place to call home!


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Kevin Hodgson link
3/26/2016 04:38:27 am

Squint hard
and you can see us,
dancing in the threads of
this beautiful mural of America;
the nearly invisible bonds,
frayed at times by language and politics,
but strong, too; a tapestry
of moments, drawing
forth from the past, sharing
stories from the present, seeking
understanding, straight ahead:
The meshed colors merely symbols
of the songs we sing
in our hearts, together.

--Kevin, lifting a line to leave a poem as comment

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lynne Dorfman link
3/26/2016 05:04:09 am

Kevin - Your poem is truly beautiful! I hope you post it on slice of life or your own blog as well. I read it three times. I want you to know that I wrote my poem over a week ago, and I have debated posting it on SOL for an entire week. Now that I see your poem here as a response, I am glad that I did! You took my poem and created something so unique and wonderful! Thank you!

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Shelly
3/26/2016 05:36:19 am

Love your poem, Lynne! You caught all America embraces beautifully! My K writers would notice your bookends! 🙂

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Shelly
3/26/2016 05:38:14 am

Love your poem, Lynne! You caught all America embraces beautifully! My K writers would notice your bookends! 🙂

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Diane Dougherty link
3/26/2016 06:29:27 am

Wow! Your poem says it all--the breadth of the American experience. Perfect for this spring day.

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Tars link
3/26/2016 07:05:37 am

Yes, this is what we are truly all about - time to shut off the election news and focus, instead, on this!

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Rose Cappelli
3/26/2016 08:57:56 am

Wonderful personification that you carried throughout the whole poem - a wonderful reminder of what is good in America.

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Clare link
3/26/2016 07:25:45 pm

Seems like a timely poem given what is happening politically right now in our country. Important to reflect on what America is and what it should remain.
Clare

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    Lynne loves to write in the early morning hours, especially in warm weather when she can sit outside on the patio.  After a walk with her three Welsh Corgis, her mind is cleared and her spirit is inspired by the choir of birds in nearby bushes and trrees. 

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