The Pursuit of Liberty
The birth of a nation.42 total reviews
Comment from Barry Penfold
Good one Paul. The image and wording match very nicely and a good rhyming pattern brings it all home. Well done and thanks for sharing. Take care and have a wonderful day.
Regards
Barry Penfold.
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Good one Paul. The image and wording match very nicely and a good rhyming pattern brings it all home. Well done and thanks for sharing. Take care and have a wonderful day.
Regards
Barry Penfold.
Comment Written 01-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Thanks, Barry. Our founding fathers are turning over in their graves.
Comment from Heidixoxo
Hello friend,
Wow....what an incredible piece you have written. I truly enjoyed this all the way through. Your choice of words come across so powerful. This is simply wonderful. Job very, very well done. Thank you for sharing with us all....
Heidixoxo
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Hello friend,
Wow....what an incredible piece you have written. I truly enjoyed this all the way through. Your choice of words come across so powerful. This is simply wonderful. Job very, very well done. Thank you for sharing with us all....
Heidixoxo
Comment Written 01-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Thanks, Heidi. We were better off right after the Revolutionary War, but I'm not so sure about it today.
Comment from kiwisteveh
Hi, Paul. For a moment there I thought you were going to reveal some of the deadly challenges to precious liberty that are engulfing your country right now. To do that you would have to attempt a glimpse into the future to add to this wee history lesson.
Good luck in what is bound to be a tumultuous year. Let's hope you get to keep the republic Jefferson and others created.
Steve
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Hi, Paul. For a moment there I thought you were going to reveal some of the deadly challenges to precious liberty that are engulfing your country right now. To do that you would have to attempt a glimpse into the future to add to this wee history lesson.
Good luck in what is bound to be a tumultuous year. Let's hope you get to keep the republic Jefferson and others created.
Steve
Comment Written 31-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Thanks, Steve. I would need a few pages to list all the challenges that we face today.
Comment from jake cosmos aller
good moving tribute using traditional rhyming patterns about that famous ride and its impact on US history. I read somewhere on a site debunking much of historical fact whether the ride occurred as we remember it having occurred. I think it was from a poem by Longfellow that the myth originated. No doubt it happened but maybe not quite the way we collectively thinkl another debunked myth was Marie Antonette's let them eat cake - she actually never said that just became a sound bite to use modern terminology that fed the flames of the anti-royalists revolutionaries.
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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good moving tribute using traditional rhyming patterns about that famous ride and its impact on US history. I read somewhere on a site debunking much of historical fact whether the ride occurred as we remember it having occurred. I think it was from a poem by Longfellow that the myth originated. No doubt it happened but maybe not quite the way we collectively thinkl another debunked myth was Marie Antonette's let them eat cake - she actually never said that just became a sound bite to use modern terminology that fed the flames of the anti-royalists revolutionaries.
Comment Written 31-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Thanks, Jake. Many of the deeds of the past are embellished to make an entertaining story.
Comment from Aussie
I am not aware of your country's history. Bits and pieces I have picked up, like the fighting between the Confederates and the Blues. Your first President. And the slave trade. Capturing Africans to work the cotton fields. Now the blacks are rising. All countries are guilty of these slave trades. K xx
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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I am not aware of your country's history. Bits and pieces I have picked up, like the fighting between the Confederates and the Blues. Your first President. And the slave trade. Capturing Africans to work the cotton fields. Now the blacks are rising. All countries are guilty of these slave trades. K xx
Comment Written 31-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Thanks for the review, Kay. This world is full of despicable acts that were perpetrated in the past.
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And now they are coming back to bite us on the bum!
Comment from Dr. Nad
Hey Paul, I love this poem that commemorates the fallen heroes of the war for independence that happened so many years ago. Thanks for reminding all of us that the price of freedom is not cheap nor is it free. We need words like yours to place in front of us and our children and their children! Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Hey Paul, I love this poem that commemorates the fallen heroes of the war for independence that happened so many years ago. Thanks for reminding all of us that the price of freedom is not cheap nor is it free. We need words like yours to place in front of us and our children and their children! Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 31-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Thank, Doc. I have tried to write a number of poems that illustrate the sacrifices that have been made to preserve our freedom.
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You are most welcome, and thank you for your Herculean efforts.
Comment from Dr. Nad
Hey Paul, I love this poem that commemorates the fallen heroes of the war for independence that happened so many years ago. Thanks for reminding all of us that the price of freedom is not cheap nor is it free. We need words like yours to place in front of us and our children and their children! Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Hey Paul, I love this poem that commemorates the fallen heroes of the war for independence that happened so many years ago. Thanks for reminding all of us that the price of freedom is not cheap nor is it free. We need words like yours to place in front of us and our children and their children! Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 31-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Repeat.
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:-) :-)
Comment from Pam (respa)
-Very nice artwork and presentation, Paul.
-Your note is appreciated.
-You wrote a good poem with a good topic.
-Effective imagery and rhyme.
-A very good opening verse sets the scene.
-Verse two continues from there with
the villagers turning out to help in
the cause for liberty.
-A very good turn as you write about the
oppressed being free, but then was the
task of accounting for those who died in battle.
-A very good closing couplet.
-A well written sonnet; you should have put it in a contest.
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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-Very nice artwork and presentation, Paul.
-Your note is appreciated.
-You wrote a good poem with a good topic.
-Effective imagery and rhyme.
-A very good opening verse sets the scene.
-Verse two continues from there with
the villagers turning out to help in
the cause for liberty.
-A very good turn as you write about the
oppressed being free, but then was the
task of accounting for those who died in battle.
-A very good closing couplet.
-A well written sonnet; you should have put it in a contest.
Comment Written 31-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Thanks, Pam. I think I did put it in a contest, but knowing me, I might have screwed up.
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You are welcome, Paul. I am sorry you missed the contest, but there are always new ones to think about.
Comment from dragonpoet
Hi Paul,
This well penned sonnet reminds of what the first Americans did to win our freedom. It is sad that it seems to be eroding over time. We need to do something to change that.
Keep writing and stay healthy.
If you celebrate it, Happy Easter.
Joan
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Hi Paul,
This well penned sonnet reminds of what the first Americans did to win our freedom. It is sad that it seems to be eroding over time. We need to do something to change that.
Keep writing and stay healthy.
If you celebrate it, Happy Easter.
Joan
Comment Written 31-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2024
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Thanks, Joan. You are right. Will Trump save us?
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You're welcome, Paul.
Joan
Comment from Sandra Stoner-Mitchell
You are so right, Paul. What happened and why, are now unanswerable. The greed took over separting the poor totally from those who took. It will never end unless something of great magnitude happens. We can only live in hope. Well done, this was a real mind opener. Happy Easter, my friend. Sandra xx
reply by the author on 31-Mar-2024
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You are so right, Paul. What happened and why, are now unanswerable. The greed took over separting the poor totally from those who took. It will never end unless something of great magnitude happens. We can only live in hope. Well done, this was a real mind opener. Happy Easter, my friend. Sandra xx
Comment Written 31-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 31-Mar-2024
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Thanks, Sandra. Jefferson would be sadly disappointed to see what is going on in our country.
