Inauguration of Barack Obama, 44th President of The United States of America (Poetry Challenge)
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The Inauguration of Barack Obama is on everyone's mind because this inauguration is such a historical event. So here's your chance. Write a poem about the inauguration. It doesn't matter if you go or not...or even if you voted or not! Love him or hate him.....He's still going to be the President. And every newspaper, magazine and tv show will have something to say about the Inauguration and The President.
But I want to hear what TwitterMoms have to say!!! Let it all out! I have some virtual hankies for anyone who needs them. Just Tweet me @dreamwritenow and I'll send you some right away! Don't worry, you won't be alone! I'll be crying too!!
BTW, I think he's great...but that's just one mom's opinion! What's your opinion?
Put it in a poem.
Let's get started! Your assignment is: 1. Watch the Inauguration on tv or internet, go to an Inauguration party/event, attend the Inauguration in Washington, listen to the Inauguration on the radio or read about the Inauguration in the newspaper or a magazine. 2. Write your thoughts. 3. Formulate your thoughts into a poetic form (spoken word, heroic verse, free verse, haiku, sonnet, ballad, pantoum, ode, etc.) 4. Edit/revise/rewrite
5. Submit your here for everyone to read & enjoy!
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Permalink Reply by Rhea Brown on -
Hey there Synolve Craft,
Please let me know how this goes. I would love to feature any poet on my next week Radio Show here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thecocktailcafeshow
you can also listen to the show on my website as well here: http://www.thecocktailcafe.com/
Lets chat. I sent you a friend invite.
Cheers.
I'm also on Twitter at http://twitter.com/thecocktailcafe
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Permalink Reply by Synolve Craft on -
Rhea:
I sent you a message to your Inbox. Thanks for the invitation. I'd love to be interviewed. Please feel free to email me at synolve.craft (at) ymail.com.
Rhea Brown said:Hey there Synolve Craft,
Please let me know how this goes. I would love to feature any poet on my next week Radio Show here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thecocktailcafeshow
you can also listen to the show on my website as well here: http://www.thecocktailcafe.com/
Lets chat. I sent you a friend invite.
Cheers.
I'm also on Twitter at http://twitter.com/thecocktailcafe
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Permalink Reply by Synolve Craft on
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Mr. President, “A letter to President Barack Obama” (9/2/08)
Richard Hugo, “Letter to Oberg from Poney”
"This is only to assure you, Art that in a nation that is no longer one but only a n amorphous collection of failed dreams where we have been told too often by contractors, corporations and prudes that our lives don’t matter, there is still a place where the soul doesn’t recognize laws like gravity, where boys catch trout and that’s important, where girls come laughing down the dirt road to the forlorn store for candy.” (Reprinted in the Georgia Review, 2008)
Mr. President, A letter to President Barack Obama
On the day of your swearing in of the most honorable oath as President of the United States of America, my heart leapt for joy. As you stood with your precious wife Michelle by our side, I know now that time and dream must have called this moment forth.
Forty-five years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King proclaimed a dream that most certainly reached into the future reserving your place as the 1st African American President in the History of the U.S.
These United States of America chose you as their President not due to the mocha color of your skin, but the content of your character highlighted by brilliance, intelligence, and tenacity.
It is this day for which the slaves endured the whips, the lynchings, the blood the sweat, and the tears. It is for this day that Martin proclaimed his dream, and for which the Angels have surely ushered in to existence.
We the people, have chosen you because you, Mr. President, have chosen to serve us in love and in peace. You have chosen a more excellent position to lead this country with honor and dignity and to restore America to its rightful place as a beacon of light for the world.
I, along with millions of Americans and perhaps billions of people around the world applaud your courage and tenacity. History shall be most kind to you, as you have entered this country into a new realm of possibility pushing us to soar higher than we’ve ever soared before. On eagle’s wings we will forever hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
No moment in history greater personifies this truth.
Your name, President Barack Obama will without doubt and quite significantly be written along with Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, and Abraham Lincoln. Your name signifies a change that is welcomed and yet long overdue. The pages of history have waited eagerly to hold on its pages your name.
Today, you have restored the dream that many a dreamer thought they might never see. Like Moses, they had sent Joshua ahead believing that their light would fail them just short of the promised land. Your arrival foretold by the prophet dreamer. Your manifestation heralded by the deceit and transgressions of another.
You believed that we could be one America “We are not red America or blue America, but the United States of America” you said. And you championed the working man and understood his story because it is your own story. You care.
And so I am deeply and profoundly grateful to you and for your service…and for your dream. Thank you for giving this country the courage to dream…again.
Written by Synolve
Worked on 8/29/08-9/2/08
Started Saturday after Democratic National Convention
Asked kids to write paper about Obama.
Kids challenged me to write also!
Wrote this poem as a challenge from my kids!
Performed for family on 9/6/08 as a part of challenge.
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Permalink Reply by Kyle Potvin on -
In honor of Inauguration Day:
Sound Travels on Water
The smell of burnt toast is delicious.
Cold butter spreads smoother.
The first drag of coffee is sweeter.
Even small, insistent voices are pleasing.
Today, at least, hope travels
Like sound on water.
From my window I see the lake,
Drawn down for winter,
Yet still
More than half full.
-Kyle Potvin
