I immediately related to this post having graduated high school in 1959 and being 82 years old. Loved the words of Sandburg describing Lincoln. I see the parallels briefly between Lincoln and President John Kennedy. Thank you for this.
I always claim Sandburg as a Michigan poet (I know, I know, Illinois has the stronger claim...) but he did live here with his family from 1928 to 1945. And he wrote these perfect lines describing Lake Michigan:
I immediately related to this post having graduated high school in 1959 and being 82 years old. Loved the words of Sandburg describing Lincoln. I see the parallels briefly between Lincoln and President John Kennedy. Thank you for this.
I always claim Sandburg as a Michigan poet (I know, I know, Illinois has the stronger claim...) but he did live here with his family from 1928 to 1945. And he wrote these perfect lines describing Lake Michigan:
"Blue and white came out,
Riders of an early fall morning,
The blue by itself, the white by itself.
A young lamb white
crossed on a clear water blue.
Blue rollers talked on a beach white sand.
Water blown from snowwhite mountains
met the blue rise of lowland waters.
This was an early morning of high price.
Blue bowls of white water
poured themselves into white bowls of blue water.
There was a back-and-forth and a kiss-me kill-me
washing and weaving."
--Lake Michigan Morning