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America's colors
Red, Blue and White by Ogden
Short and Colorful writing prompt entry


Nowadays, red stands for right-leaning,
And blue for the opposite meaning.
Let's add
 white for the many minorities,
Welcoming white, important priorities.

It's vital to our traditional mission
to uphold Lady Liberty's vision -
Escape tyranny, immigrants flee:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."


Let us not permit political pressure to close our "golden door."
"Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

We must strive to resist intolerance with all of our might.

And thrive, united in harmony, our colors Red, Blue, and  White.



Writing Prompt
Write a poem which incorporates at least two colors. The idea is to use colors to infer meaning. Poem may be rhyming or not.

Author Notes
NOTE
The quoted verse is excerpted from "The New Colossus," a sonnet by American poet, Emma Lazarus, written in 1883, engraved in a bronze plaque in 1903, and displayed inside the Statue of Liberty pedestal.

     

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