THE GREAT AMERICAN POEM

THE GREAT AMERICAN POEM

Roger A. Davis

Native Americans’ oral traditions
First of this country’s poetry renditions

Walt Whitman’s 'Leaves of Grass'
Some critics claimed it obscene and crass

Yet, his elegy 'When lilacs last in dooryard bloom’d'
Had better acceptance done for Abe’s doom

On a Minuteman Statue, nicely done
Was 'Concord Hymn' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Annabel Lee' that love saga by the sea
By Edgar Allan Poe moved me extremely

'Snow and Ice' about anger and the world’s end
Author, Robert Frost, John F. Kennedy’s friend

'The Great American Poem' is done
"Hey, out there, you write the next one!"