Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny

“Go west, young man!” and with these spoken words
A nation lifted up its eyes to see
The far flung vistas that before remained
Obscure in mists shrouding the horizon.

A need to know what lies beyond, ingrained
By generations who crossed the oceans
For a promise, thin as the pungent gruel
They blessed, of a chance for a better day.

By wagon, by horse, by foot they traversed
This land of endless possibilities.
The next valley, the next mountain, onward
Toward the sunset, building a nation.

Their journey complete, at the ocean’s edge
They discarded their old world heritage
And loudly proclaimed “We’re Americans!”
And with those words, a new journey began.



A Round 4 “Muse Master’s” Creation based on the following requirements:
Convention: Allusion ~ Where a poem makes reference to another poem or text.
Form: Blank Verse ~ Blank Verse is constructed with unrhymed (therefore blank) Iambic Pentameters. Iambic describes the particular rhythm that the words establish in that line. A standard line of iambic pentameter is five iambic feet in a row made up of alternating unstressed and stressed sounds.
Genre: Travel