America's history is filled with drama.
Beautiful sights leaves us numb.
Constitution laid ground for thoughts idyllic,
Developed dreams now abound.
Elemental free rights under which we live,
Freedom flies from every staff.

Generated the lifestyle we are living.
Healthy democratic worth,
Institutions libretti,
Juxtapositioned order against hadj padj,
Kingdom removed from our back,

Loosing new unbridled liberty for all.
Macro-evolution dream
Negated suggestion of hope's suppression.
Oppressive actions echo
Policy off the doorstep.

Quantified invention, like Twitter on BLAQ,
Revolution behavior,
Sensitized precedence of world governments
Through new ideas set aloft.
Union joined without adieu!

Viewed afar, our democratic POV,
With expectations anew,
Xenic thoughts create American tableaux.
Yankee found alacrity!
Zealouscy lit the passion, setting world abuzz.

I wrote this poem on 1/21/2013, inauguration day for President Obama. I thought it fitting. Although he was not my candidate, he was my President. His very election represented the diversity of our nation. I am reposting it now in 2024, because we have a different president who is doing everything to undermine these foundations. That event represented the peaceful transition of power. The Martin Luther King holiday represented Civil rights and concept that people be judged by their character, not by the color ofd their skin, as well as the final abolition of slavery in the USA. I hope this poem carries some of that throughout it.

This is an Alphabet Poem within an Abcedarian Poem. The highlighted first words reading down the page are a poem within the poem. So, you can read this poem two ways. First read the blue words down. Then read each line down.
In addition, I added an additional level of difficulty by making the last letter in every line of the Abcedarian the same letter of the alphabet as the starting word, usually in lower case where possible.
The syllable count for this poem is as follows: 11-7-11-7-11-7, 11-7-7, 11-7-11-7-11-7-7, 11-7-11-7-7. 11-7-11-7-11.
Color scheme: red, white, and blue

An Abecdarian Poem, is a poem using the 26 letters of the alphabet chronologically. An abecedarian poem is a special form of an acrostic poem, in which the initial letters of the words beginning each line or stanza spell out the alphabet in order.
An Alphabet Poem is the same, only the lines consist of a single word starting with each letter of the Alphabet in chronological sequence.

Alacrity: enjoyment
BLAQ: an APP that carries Twitter on Blackberries
Hadj Padj: I found this in scrabble - older english for Hodge Podge, disorderly.
Libretti: operatic, with musical drama
Juxtapositioned: laid side by side, to examine
Macro-evolution: evolving from within
Precedence:what has been established or gone before
POV: Point of View
Sensitized: made aware of
Tableaux: striking, dramatic scene
Xenic: foreign
Zealouscy: Having much zeal or energy.

The photograph is the Author's

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