These are tough times, but We The People will overcome all challenges, if we choose to ...
| By Orca G. - Dec 10th, 2008 at 5:35 pm EST |
We have citizens from around the world and we have the capacity to change the world for the better for everyone. I am very hopeful.
WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT, 1985
Thou, Washington, art all the world's, the continents'
entire--/ not yours alone, America.
--Walt Whitman, "Washington's Monument, 1885"
This old marble, remote and monumental,
That sways in its aging stone like a leaning tower,
Will fall or soar.
The narrow shaft of its spire
Contains within itself the Elemental--
Lift and star-thrust, the Humming Invisible.
Von Braun and Steinmetz understood the spark
That drives a man to empty his mind, to fill
Infinite space with thoughts made visible.
And Washington, upon the Delaware,
Didn't avoid the sight of those banked-fires--
Nor have the leaders after him,
who find
Their words and gestures recycled in other spheres--
Who do not measure their years on level ground,
But balance--poised--on a planet between stars.
--David George
WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT, 1985
Thou, Washington, art all the world's, the continents'
entire--/ not yours alone, America.
--Walt Whitman, "Washington's Monument, 1885"
This old marble, remote and monumental,
That sways in its aging stone like a leaning tower,
Will fall or soar.
The narrow shaft of its spire
Contains within itself the Elemental--
Lift and star-thrust, the Humming Invisible.
Von Braun and Steinmetz understood the spark
That drives a man to empty his mind, to fill
Infinite space with thoughts made visible.
And Washington, upon the Delaware,
Didn't avoid the sight of those banked-fires--
Nor have the leaders after him,
who find
Their words and gestures recycled in other spheres--
Who do not measure their years on level ground,
But balance--poised--on a planet between stars.
--David George
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