Our National Anthem – haiku by Dennis Allen Lange

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Some are offended by this line from the third stanza:
No refuge can save the hireling and slave.

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Slaves mentioned
And you’re offended?
YOU’RE in chains.

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You’re enslaved
To a past that was
Never yours.

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Your burden
Is the past you drag
With each thought.

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It’s past time.
No one can free you
But yourself.

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* The haiku I write are lines of 3-5-3 syllables instead of 5-7-5.

See Haiku article here for explanation, if needed: https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/haiku/
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© Dennis Allen Lange, 2019.

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Political Correctness by Dennis Lange

Those who’re politically correct
Are just a strict religious sect –
Their dictates quite tyrannical,
Their noses Puritanical.
And in their tightened grip and zeal,
They pinch so hard they make one squeal.
They think, in their immoral way,
“We’re better, far, than pagan they.”

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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2016.

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About Those Terrorists by Dennis Lange

The one who says Muslim is one leaders muzzle.
Just why is a riddle, a mystery, puzzle.
Transparently obvious for wise man and fool:
A part of the Quran makes some that are cruel.
And equally sure is Osama Bin Laden,
That treacherous fellow on whom we have trodden,
Was Muslim, not Christian, not Buddhist or Hindu,
Whose motive was jihad, who said that I’ll end you.
Now ISIS, the heartless, beheads those who cross it.
Islamic’s the first word. Those letters emboss it.
So why the reluctance that spade is a spade?
Just stop all denying and don’t be afraid;
Just stop all the lying and end the charade.

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President Obama: “no religion is responsible for terrorists”
http://nypost.com/2015/02/18/obama-refuses-to-acknowledge-muslim-terrorists-at-summit/

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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2015.

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The Ace Of Shovels, The Queen Of Fools by Dennis Lange

It seems that as all fools rise up
…From penthouse or from hovel,
We’ll call a spade a spade no more,
…But call a spade a shovel.

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I just want to slap a hundred million
people or so and say, “Grow up!”

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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2015.

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