February 20, 2020
Dear Subscriber:
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.
I welcome comments on my poems at
http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .
A poem for Presidents Day about the roles of Washington and
Lincoln in keeping the United States united:
The President was without precedent
At the time that he took on the post.
Equally homespun and elegant,
He struck the precisely right note.
Refusing the power of kings,
He yet understood that the State
Required what reverence brings:
A loyalty one can create.
And so he became The Great Leader,
The focus of wide adulation.
Yet only a one-time repeater,
He served not the man, but the nation.
He gave to the State what the states
Could only recopy writ small:
The sense of a Center the fates
Must bless for the good of us all.
He played well the hero who held
The Union together those years,
Until the still-thin mixture jelled,
And fact was more forceful than fears;
Till the other great president we
Now jam into one day for two
Kept the Union together and free,
His own blood the ultimate glue.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Politics
2/20: The President Was Without Precedent
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