Broadening Our Horizons

Bought from Napoleon Bonaparte
What a rare feat
I must say!
Nearly doubling the size of our country
All that land must be hard to portray!

Someone will need
A big imagination
To make something better
Of our nation
Don't get to excited
And lose respiration!

Our quiet little nation
Wanted to expand
So president Thomas Jefferson
Bought some new land
Whatever journeys lie ahead
Are sure to be grand!

So much new land in the west
So much to explore
Someone may soon traverse
From shore to shore
It is too much of
A great adventure to ignore!
Get up and get ready
What are you waiting for?

Reflection: This would be my song poem. You can probably tell by the rhythm and happy tone of this song that the Louisiana Purchase was something very good for our country. In the first stanza of my poem, the line "So much land to portray" really fits in, because about 800,000 square miles of land were bought. I had a lot of fun creating this song, especially since I received the experience of songwriting from the poetry project. The rhyme scheme also gives away that it's a song, even though songs have to rhyme. I am very happy with how this poem turned out.