- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Blues for number 25
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Click hereWith lengthy strides
you followed the Emancipator's pace.
You offered to the continent below
an iron embrace,
a lovely girdle made of rail, and lo,
a love fraternal that abides,
though time and malice may efface
you from our memory even so.
About your life
there's little said, and now your fleeting fame
is just a dry pursuit for learned men.
And our most mighty mountain, like a loving wife,
assumed your name,
then changed her mind, and gave it up again.
Disdain for your outmoded kind is rife.
I love you just the same.
- COMMENTS
Some of the fiercest political battles take place among historians; controlling the public's perception of the past enables the dominant faction to shape the future. The economic policies associated with Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Willian McKinley and FDR are anathema to the dominant faction today, and they have been largely written out of the history books. I believe that malice is the word which best describes that.
I like this as I did in the Challenge, AH; very original. My only quibble is in the use of the word "malice," which confused me.