The
Forgotten Flag
© 2001 by Earl H. Roberts
There is a wonder in the wind this morning. It is twisted with age, lined with rust and stained with aged scorn; the flap of an old flag never flown before. It raps the wind, its spirit newborn.
Lost for years with symbolic beauty shorn; wrapped away in a new sack, untorn, lost in a creaking home, forlorn. Its forgotten pride by the heirs denied, for lonely years twas set aside, then from its prison by the wreckers was gently pried
For one breath of glory it had ached to know. A woven tapestry from years ago, it anxiously waited for the rippling flow of cheers and tears from freedom's glow.
Unfurled to the wind, proudly whipped both long and wide, its ancient threads at last are tried. And this morning a wonder soars on the breeze outside.
It stretches forth undaunted to the victor's list. Somehow braver, stronger, and with love more richly kissed for all our history it has missed.
Undimmed with worry by the cynic's mask, uncaring in triumph as it fulfills its task, to be raised aloft for one long day was all it asked.
To let some eye upon it gleam
to set aside what has slipped the seam
a cherished liberty help redeem
and renew the hopes of a trampled dream
to skim the clouds in burnished esteem
to bloom in splendor on the golden beam
with its bright hunger filled at last, the old wonder rattles proudly against the mast, a dream remembered from a forgotten past.
Ode to a flag found by wreckers, so old a few hours in the wind left it tattered, by Earl H. Roberts.
The Declaration of Independence
Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
George Washington's Farewell Address
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