In One Today, Blanco’s use of motifs connects to the ideal of everyone having a shared American experience within America. Blanco conveys that every American has equal opportunity no matter their cultural heritage is. Blanco uses the repetition of “one light, one ground, one wind, one sky, [and] one moon” to relate to the motif of a shared American experience. Blanco imbues American experiences to illuminate the country’s collective hopes for opportunity by the use of the motif of one light. Blanco then transitions to one ground to show the hardships that Americans faced when starting a new life. At this point, the poem begins to shift focus to a more aural ideas of a shared by American experience. Blanco’s repetition of one wind, one sky,