Some Would Have the Courage of Their Dreams

February 23, 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 the need for dreams to bring about political change:

Some would have the courage of their dreams.

If one falls short, at least one's moved ahead.

Xeroxing the present only means

That one must read what one's already read.

Yet one small change a lifelong quest redeems.

Fate must reap what will has left for dead.

One need not accept a world that seems

Unchangeable, or shrug when blood is shed,

Resigned as once we were to kings and queens.

© 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

2/22: Sixty-Six Is Now in Full Career

2/23: Some Would Have the Courage of Their Dreams