Obama Poem, former Quad Cities Poet Laureate

In today's Quad Cities Times, a poem from former Quad Cities Poet Laureate and staunch Republican Dick Stahl. It is a beautiful, gracious, generous piece.


Dear Barack Obama
By Dick Stahl
I have a hope today.

I hope America turns ‘greener’ by the hour.

I hope America catches her wind
and sings electric.

I hope America shows the gasoline engine only in museums.

I hope Americans travel abroad
with respect from
all countries.

I hope Americans
redefine presidential leadership from
your character and personal integrity.

I hope Americans anticipate you writing your own words
and speaking inyour own voice.

I hope all Americans enjoy affordable
health care.

I hope America
cheers the wintering bald eagles on the Upper Mississippi River and applauds
its national symbol
visiting the working spine of our country.

I hope Americans
trim down, toughen up and exercise sound mind and body.

I hope America’s national debt drops
to zero.

I hope the American family learns from
the love of the
Obama family.

I hope all Americans make education
a life-long quest.

I hope Made in
America means
Made in the Obama Administration.

I hope Americans
visit the memory of Presidents Washington and Lincoln with you.

I hope you partner with Congress to move this country forward.

I hope America
discovers your new oratory as ‘A New Birth of Freedom.’

I hope America
springs with you
into the Twenty-First Century on
January 20, 2009.

I have a hope today.

Dick Stahl