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nolabear

(41,960 posts) Mon Jan 21, 2013, 04:13 PM Jan 2013

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Let's hear it for the poet! Best inaugural poem I've ever heard, and I'm no easy sell.

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Let's hear it for the poet! Best inaugural poem I've ever heard, and I'm no easy sell. (Original Post) nolabear Jan 2013 OP

It was beautiful alcibiades_mystery Jan 2013 #1

It was beautiful. HappyMe Jan 2013 #2

Good poetry combines the personal and the transcendent. He did that wonderfully well. nolabear Jan 2013 #3

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)

1. It was beautiful

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Mon Jan 21, 2013, 04:13 PM

Jan 2013

Tremendous.

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)

2. It was beautiful.

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Mon Jan 21, 2013, 04:16 PM

Jan 2013

It was for and about all of us.

I liked the part about his dad's hands. It made me remember my dad and his mechanic's hands.

nolabear

(41,960 posts)

3. Good poetry combines the personal and the transcendent. He did that wonderfully well.

Reply to HappyMe (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 21, 2013, 04:41 PM

Jan 2013

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