July 1, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is Independence Day (USA).
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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An Independence Day poem about the way our view of justice
has changed:
Justice now means food,
health, habitation.
Unequal
access means unequal right.
Let us
understand that as a nation
Years have
changed the foci of our sight.
Freedom
once applied to property.
One did
with what one owned as one saw fit,
Using land
or slave or factory
Ruthlessly,
for what it might remit.
Today, one
can’t do simply as one would,
Having monetized a
common good.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)
7/1: Justice Now Means Food, Health, Habitation
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