Quickies!: Tears For Historic Presidential Election

Zacheurotic
wrote on November 5 2008 @ 07:02 pm: [report]

I too, was lifted by this Walt Whitman poem. Recited among the courageous maelstrom of heroes and losers at The Henry Ransom Center today.

—This seething hemisphere’s humanity, as now, I’d name—the still
small voice vibrating—America’s choosing day,
(The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the
quadriennial choosing,) The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict,
The countless snow-flakes falling—(a swordless conflict,
Yet more than all Rome’s wars of old, or modern Napoleon’s:) the
peaceful choice of all,
Or good or ill humanity—welcoming the darker odds, the dross:
—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart
pants, life glows:
These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,
Swell’d Washington’s, Jefferson’s, Lincoln’s sails,
...and Obama’s. These exerts of Whitman’s poem were crafted for the 1884 inauguration, and they speak the form of my tear—our tears. Tangible magik.
“What is possible has been done and the impossible.. will be done.”-Evel Kinneval

Alex V
wrote on November 6 2008 @ 02:40 am: [report]

It really hit home for me when CNN was focusing on people in the crowd and they zoomed in on Jesse Jackson, crying. No matter what you may think of Rev. Jackson, he has been fighting for equality since the beginning. Watching him break down was a very poignant moment.