In
these days, these times of transition
this
time of transforming, hope in the air
echoes
of the years, the trials, the anguish
the
years in the desert, wandering, struggling,
a
people adrift, lost in the between times
between
their slavery and the promised lands
The
days of Moses, the days in the desert,
wondering
now if they are ending, for another people
another
people lost, wandering, out of slavery,
into
a long desert, wondering when, after decades,
when
the promised land would come
when
they would find peace, a land for them
May
these be the days long prayed for
when
the people can cross over
when
the past can be cast off, forgotten,
and
they may drink of milk and honey
when
they may walk into a new day
to
feel a new life of freedom
-----
edited April 8, 2014
Echoes of the Desert – v3
(editing original again)
January
21, 2013
Echoes
of the Desert – v2
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
and
his final speech before his assassination
and
Inauguration of the President
Barack
Hussein Obama
Invocation
by
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Inaugural
Address
&
&
January
18, 2009
Echoes
of the Desert
&
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
January 18, 2009
the message, “It’s not just a dream but a reality”
on the sign in front of church,
the story of Moses and Joshua,
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Joshua 1:1-9
along with
Micah 4:1-4
Matthew 5:43-48
the sermon, “Love Your Who???”,
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,
Suncook United Methodist Church, Suncook, NH,
and the hypothetical put to Eric Holder, nominee for
Attorney General,
by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on the use of
waterboarding,
January 15, 2009, during his Senate Confirmation Hearings,
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