From the snowy hills of New Hampshire
not as snowy this year, but still not just a dream,
this birthday, this holiday, celebrating
this time, this day, this year,
the words of the preacher,
the world now right side up
A step on the journey, clear, discernible,
a President, a man of hope, of change
of color, a moment, Martin smiling;
a new generation, a new time, this time,
not just a dream, a world, forever transformed
where hope won out over fear
whose tomorrow rose up out of yesterday
Shaking the dust off their feet, the shackles
forever cast off, the tide of history
on the side of right, of peace
of justice, in God’s time;
a new day in this land
a new hope for our people
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January
21, 2013
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
and
his final speech before his assassination
and
Inauguration of the President
Barack
Hussein Obama
&
&
several
poems written in 2009
on
the juxtaposition of the
80th
birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
and
the inauguration of Barack Obama
as
President of the United States of America
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