It is interesting that you should choose that poem, as it is also just after that 50th anniversary of The March on Washington and MLK's awesome 'I have a dream speech'.
The poet's words so accurately reflect the events of those intense years. I believe, many of us, standing there in the sunshine that day, thought that the beautiful future was surely just around the corner. How wrong we were. The birth pangs of that terrible struggle had only just begun.
I also lament the passing of a great poet. His works engender an ineffable sadness and thoughtfulness in me.
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Now it's high watermark
And floodtide in the heart
And time to go...
What's left to say?
Suspect too much sweet talk
But never close your mind.
It was a fortunate wind
That blew me here. I leave
Half-ready to believe
That a crippled trust might walk
And the half-true rhyme is love.
An enormous loss.
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The poet's words so accurately reflect the events of those intense years. I believe, many of us, standing there in the sunshine that day, thought that the beautiful future was surely just around the corner. How wrong we were. The birth pangs of that terrible struggle had only just begun.
I also lament the passing of a great poet. His works engender an ineffable sadness and thoughtfulness in me.
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