Not Just a Dream – v3

From the snowy hills of New Hampshire

oh so snowy this year, not just a dream,

this birthday, this holiday, celebrating

this time, this day, this year;

the words of the preacher,

hope ascending, rising,

the world 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;

not just a dream, a world, forever transformed

where hope won out over fear

who 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 a people

a dream not yet fully realized

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edited January 19, 2015

Not Just a Dream – v3

(editing original again)

January 21, 2013

Not Just a Dream – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/not-just-dream-v2.html

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

and his final speech before his assassination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oehry1JC9Rk&feature=youtu.be

and Inauguration of the President

Barack Hussein Obama

&

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/01/not-just-dream-reality.html

&

several poems written in 2009

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Martin%20Luther%20King

January 17, 2009

Not Just a Dream

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/01/not-just-dream.html

on the juxtaposition of the

80^th 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

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/01/changing-wind-v3.html

(merging edits to original and version 2)

Edited July 22, 2013

“changing the wind – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/changing-wind-v2.html

December 7, 2007

“changing the wind”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2007/12/changing-wind.html

Based on the comments of Jim Wallis on

Speaking of Faith, November 29, 2007

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/jimwallis/index.shtml

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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