The West Indies poet Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature, writes exclusively for The Times to mark the election of Barack Obama as President http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5088429.ece *Derek Walcott*
* Out of the turmoil emerges one emblem, an engraving — * * a young Negro at dawn in straw hat and overalls, * * an emblem of impossible prophecy, a crowd * * dividing like the furrow which a mule has ploughed, * * parting for their president: a field of snow-flecked * * cotton * * forty acres wide, of crows with predictable omens * * that the young ploughman ignores for his unforgotten * * cotton-haired ancestors, while lined on one branch, is * * a tense * * court of bespectacled owls and, on the field's * * receding rim — * * a gesticulating scarecrow stamping with rage at him. * * The small plough continues on this lined page * * beyond the moaning ground, the lynching tree, the tornado's * * black vengeance, * * and the young ploughman feels the change in his veins, * * heart, muscles, tendons, * * till the land lies open like a flag as dawn's sure * * light streaks the field and furrows wait for the sower* --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
