Monday, July 22, 2013

changing the wind – v2


A groundswell of justice, of caring
comes from changing the wind
a headlong agenda, urgent
giving new direction for the weathervanes
politicians with their wet fingers up in the air
catching the wind and where it points
altering the compass heading, the pole, the goal
by changing the wind, the tides
moving the nation forward
one heart at a time


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edited January 18, 2016
Claiming Martin – v4
(editing version 3)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
edited January 19, 2015
Claiming Martin – v3
(merging edits to version 1 and version 2)
Edited January 21, 2013
Claiming Martin – v2


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
written January 17, 2009
Claiming Martin
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
&
edited January 19, 2015
Changing the Wind – v3
(merging edits to original and version 2)
Edited July 22, 2013
“changing the wind – v2”
December 7, 2007
“changing the wind”
Based on the comments of Jim Wallis on
Speaking of Faith, November 29, 2007
He was talking about whether to change politicians
or change the wind, to change the public opinion
which guides politics. He used the example
of President Johnson’s statement to the
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that it would
take 5 years for a voting rights bill but
it actually took 5 months to pass the Voting Rights Act,
after the March in Selma.


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