Just Words Declared Our Freedom Long Ago

July 6, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Independence Day, in honor of Independence Day (USA), which falls on July 4.

Today’s poem is an Independence Day poem about the hypocrisy of our pretensions.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Just words declared our freedom long ago,

Untouched by time, sincerity, or will,

Little meant, much mouthed, a well-wrought show

Yearning to be put in practice still.

There was no truth in them, not even then,

Harbingers of hope long since betrayed,

Ever the disguise of gentlemen,

Fashion for a yearly masquerade.

O judge them harshly, for they are but lies,

Unworthy of the dream that gave them birth!

Regard not their pretensions, but their ties

To those who would be lords upon the earth,

Hard souls who hide their greed in freedom's cries.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/justwo.html. For more poems for Independence Day, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/july4thpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Independence Day.

July 4: Just Remember: Freedom’s Not a Given

July 5: Your Light Still Lingers in Our Distant Morning

July 6: Just Words Declared Our Freedom Long Ago