America is Frozen
America is frozen—held fast in winter’s maw,
her government held prisoner under a greedy claw.
For any children but her own, her arms grown arch and cold.
No room for diversity. No room for her to hold
any but the richest, the whitest and the chosen.
No room left in liberty for any but the frozen.
“Give me your tired and your poor” relegated to the past
by the chilling Nordic air that holds us in its blast.
The thaw that brings the blush of spring—the budding of the flower
is held for ransom by the few who have usurped our power.
Our ship of state held fast by ice, its sails still bravely strain
to crack the ice and open up to justice once again.
If they only had the power to billow they might start
to bring us back to sanity and thaw each frozen heart.
The poor would share the power that only the rich can buy
and have their proper portion of the great American pie.
Prompt words today were thaw, power, sail and justice. Here are the links:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/03/14/rdp-thursday-thaw/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/03/14/fowc-with-fandango-power/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/03/14/your-daily-word-prompt-sail-march-14-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/03/14/justice/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I really hope to live long enough to see us set right.
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I hope you live far longer than that..and I hope I do, too. This new college entrance scandal… just more evidence that America has been bought!!!
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I am amazed at how you can write these brilliant poems so quickly, Judy. Fantastic but not fantastic.
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Another good one. 💖
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Love the poem, too true for comfort. I love the use of the prompts and you worked in pi too! Happy Pi day! 😉
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This is excellent. It just shows how greedy and one track minded that America really is. Our society is all about the almighty dollar.
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Luckily, not all. Just seems to be many of the ones in power right now.
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True
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