15 January 2009

The next Robert Frost

NPR has so fantastically commissioned Obama poems in honor of the upcoming inauguration.  Jeff Hayes, Poet/Lawyer, is submitting the following sure-fire winner:

Ode to Obama 
(and the institution of unbiased journalistic integrity known as NPR)
by Jeffrey M. Hayes

O is for the only black president, which you are.

B is for your nickname, Barry.

A is for the all-mighty power that we recognize in you.

M is for your mench-like attributes.

A is for America --Yes We Can! (repeat three times)

It's enough to make both Peggy Noonan AND Hillary Clinton get all choked up.

2 comments:

melissa said...

BRAVO JEFFREY HAYES!!!!!!!!!! bravo indeed!

Jim Eaton said...

I'm getting all misty...and verklempt.