Poetry Elect
Above is a picture of our President Elect clutching a book of Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems. Nice to see a president at least in the company of literature. I’m happy we elected a person who as candidate championed the power of words.
The book looks unopened and was probably a gift, but no doubt Mr. Obama will dive into the text shortly. Here’s an example of what he might find.
Love After Love
by Derek WalcottThe time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved youall your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
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via Telegraph UK
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Posted: November 18th, 2008 under poetry.
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Time: November 20, 2008, 5:01 am
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Comment from Sarah
Time: November 21, 2008, 2:49 am
lovely poem… and it’s nice to have president who is smart for a change 
Comment from Susan
Time: January 28, 2009, 3:07 pm
i just bought his biography, heard from a friend that it’s great… just like this poem
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