Great news! One of my poems took 3rd place in the Voices of Lincoln contest out of 1500 poems that were submitted. Here for better or worse is 'Of Dreams' Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream
included the notion
his children could live in a nation
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but the content of their character.
Are the two Obama elections what he saw from the mountain top?
After the election
I had my own dream.
Autumn, my golden lab said to Coco, my black lab,
“Can you believe that people care so much about the color of ones coat?”
“No, that’s so dumb. Dogs would never do that.
When I smell another dogs butt
we all look about the same.”