Shake Up the World! It Could Use Some Shaking

July 16, 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 Bastille Day, or the national holiday of France, which is celebrated on July 14^th.

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A political number poem about the need to raise one’s voice against injustice:

Shake up the world! It could use some shaking.

Every moment waits for your commands.

Voices were created to be heard;

Enduring wrong politely is absurd;

Nor can one hope for change without demands.

There is no justice simply for the taking,

Yet some would silent raise their righteous hands.

The birthplace of the whirlwind is the word,

Wind that shapes the contours of the land,

One wind of many wills, the world remaking.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

July 13: Darfur/Darfur

July 14: Obama/Osama

July 15: The Last Depression Led to Holocaust

July 16: Shake Up the World! It Could Use Some Shaking