Heroes and Heroines: This time, it is poetry: GANDHI MEETS JEFFERSON (Viva USA)

Sunday, May 2, 2004

This time, it is poetry: GANDHI MEETS JEFFERSON (Viva USA)

GANDHI MEETS TOM JEFFERSON The Spirit of America, his American spirit No idol, no idolatry, a plea to Providence A life like another of His sons Making us ache for grandeur, ideas, acceptance Your truths, your concession to dirty brown me For equality and a government of the truly free Free of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Dedicated to those who improve AMERICA: With the grandeur of prairies and canyons With Georgian welcomes from Springer Mountain With cooler welcomes of Mount Katahdin America rises with five million feet* To hike amid more mosses, mammals, trees Than do survive in spaces, countries Equal in size but not in what survives America rises with miles of Trail With delirious descents of peregrines With the swooping swish of eagles with fish With raising and saving our whooping cranes America rises in our Refuges Grace as in the disappearing chestnut Timelessness and wonder in the redwood Gifts of euphorbia, aster, camellia America rises with chlorophyll With green and red blood that will unify With plants and Hawaii that diversify America rises and falls from view America for all, saved by the few. *Someone estimated it takes five million footsteps to walk the Appalachian Trail, the AT. I wrote this poe

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