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We are the ones we have been waiting for.... (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Mar 2016
OP
My point is that the phrase that confounds you has been understood by millions when spoken by
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2016
#10
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)1. errrr..... what?
We have been waiting for ourselves?
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)7. Obama ----"We are the ones we have been waiting for"
errrrr...what?
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)8. Got it. So that was an Obama sign in the OP.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)10. My point is that the phrase that confounds you has been understood by millions when spoken by
Obama and others. You affected a puzzlement about the phrase, one assumes to attempt a jab at Bernie. But the line is not Bernie's. Not even sure it's Barack's originally. It's very clear no matter who is using it.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)11. ...
Poem for South African Women
Our own shadows disappear as the feet of thousands
by the tens of thousands pound the fallow land
into new dust that
rising like a marvelous pollen will be
fertile
even as the first woman whispering
imagination to the trees around her made
for righteous fruit
from such deliberate defense of life
as no other still
will claim inferior to any other safety
in the world
The whispers too they
intimate to the inmost ear of every spirit
now aroused they
carousing in ferocious affirmation
of all peaceable and loving amplitude
sound a certainly unbounded heat
from a baptismal smoke where yes
there will be fire
And the babies cease alarm as mothers
raising arms
and heart high as the stars so far unseen
nevertheless hurl into the universe
a moving force
irreversible as light years
traveling to the open
eye
And who will join this standing up
and the ones who stood without sweet company
will sing and sing
back into the mountains and
if necessary
even under the sea
we are the ones we have been waiting for
---June Jordan, from Passion (1980)
Our own shadows disappear as the feet of thousands
by the tens of thousands pound the fallow land
into new dust that
rising like a marvelous pollen will be
fertile
even as the first woman whispering
imagination to the trees around her made
for righteous fruit
from such deliberate defense of life
as no other still
will claim inferior to any other safety
in the world
The whispers too they
intimate to the inmost ear of every spirit
now aroused they
carousing in ferocious affirmation
of all peaceable and loving amplitude
sound a certainly unbounded heat
from a baptismal smoke where yes
there will be fire
And the babies cease alarm as mothers
raising arms
and heart high as the stars so far unseen
nevertheless hurl into the universe
a moving force
irreversible as light years
traveling to the open
eye
And who will join this standing up
and the ones who stood without sweet company
will sing and sing
back into the mountains and
if necessary
even under the sea
we are the ones we have been waiting for
---June Jordan, from Passion (1980)
polly7
(20,582 posts)2. Love that! nt.
H2O Man
(73,510 posts)3. Very good!
Recommended.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)4. yes we are
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)5. ...
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)9. +1