{"id":2419,"date":"2007-07-20T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:00","slug":"poetry-friday-hope-glory-51st-drea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2419","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Hope & Glory – the 51st (dream) state"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, Poetry Friday is hosted at NYC Teacher’s<\/a> place, and the topics are wide, far ranging — and original and beautiful<\/a> and thought-provoking and heart inspiriting<\/a> and flat out AWESOME today — really, as they are every Friday. The 7 Imps<\/a>, however, are the only ones with nude poetry.<\/p>\n

Just thought you should know.<\/p>\n

excerpt from the 51st (dream) state<\/a> by Sekou Sundiata<\/a>:<\/b><\/p>\n

What if we were Life
Or Liberty
Or the Pursuit of something new?<\/p>\n

Between the rocks below
and the stars above
<\/a><\/p>\n

What if we were composed by Love?<\/p>\n

And what if we could show
that what we dream
is deeper than what we know?<\/p>\n

Suppose if something does not live
in the world
that we long to see
then we make it ourselves
as we want it to be<\/p>\n

What if we are Life
Or Liberty
and the Pursuit of something new?<\/p>\n

And suppose the beautiful answer
asks the more beautiful question,<\/p>\n

Why don’t we get our hopes up too high?
What don’t we get our hopes up to high?
High!<\/p>\n

Sekou Sundiata, the eloquent and much loved poet, performer, artist activist and educator, passed away this past Wednesday, and I am grateful to the lovely people who brought his work to my attention. This is from a musical and spoken word performance designed to bring audiences together to envision a more perfect Union, and was still being performed until this week.<\/p>\n

So much of what we find, we discover when it is fading or almost lost.What if we began to search sooner?Here’s to hopes set high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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