Seventy-Six Has Sown the Sacred Seed

February 21, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics, in honor of Presidents Day, which this year was celebrated on February 17.

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A political number poem about passing on progressive politics to later generations:

Seventy-six has sown the sacred seed,

Ensuring that another generation,

Vested in the cause of liberation,

Engages in the politics of justice.

Nor after centuries is there less need.

The archetypal rulers are relentless.

Yet one can pit one's love against their greed.

Sing, then, of an inherited vocation,

Identities along a chain that's endless,

Xeroxing the dream that marks the breed.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

2/17: Great Ends Demand Great Sacrifice

2/18: Greatness Is Effect Far More than Cause

2/19: Greatness Is the Child of Choice and Chance

2/20: The President Was Without Precedent

2/21: Seventy-Six Has Sown the Sacred Seed