America, The Age of Conflict (ABC Poem)

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America, The Age of Conflict

America, the land of the free, catering to the wealthy and pushing the poor.

Blacks are all but exempt; they are seen as property and nothing more.

California brought into this nation by gold, as a false equality,

Demanded by some to spread the systems of vast irrationality.

Extradition in compromise to abolition.

Fugitives thrown back to chains, complete pacification.

Grace, all too fallen from, that was this nation.

Humble as many others were, one woman changed the nation.

Illegal activities by abolitionist became the norm, in hopes to stop degradation.

Johns and Janes educated in the taboo subject of the naive.

Kings and knights replaced with tyrannicals and elderly slaves.

Liberty and freedom for all,

Men and woman, Black and White, all readying to fall.

Night falls, creating a stage for the quarrelsome show.

Oppositions face each other, their bodies ready to feed the coming crows.

Position between this and that,

Quarrelling over the proper way to skin a cat.

Runaways are forgotten for the time being,

Say it so, as many were fleeing.

Tackless politicians following a false tradition,

Utilitarian, one may say, on their decision.

Vicious out cries spread across the nation following

White men's decision to take a stand being,

Xecute the evils of the world.

Yells coming from each side, each saying they are more moral'd.

Zephyrs blow across the grasses, to contrast what is to come.

This was an assignment for A.P. United States History my junior year in high school. I actually got a terrible grade on it (the lowest in the class), so I guess it's not that good. It's about the events (in general) leading up to the Civil War.

The Form

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"Definition See note below: Poetry in which every word begins with a successive letter of the alphabet. The first word begins with A, the second with B, etc. (OR) A poem that has 5 lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines 1 through 4 are made up of words, phrases or clauses - and the first word of each line is in alphabetical order from the first word. Line 5 is one sentence, beginning with any letter. Note: ABC as a form has been used to describe anything from an Abecedarian poem (above), to an Acrostic poem, and other things. ABC typically has been used as a catch-all for sequential alphabet poems that may not necessarily use the entire alphabet like an Abecedarian poem. So, in reality, "ABC" is just an acrostic poem using successive letters of the alphabet per line or stanza."