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Thursday, March 22, 2018

AMERICA

by Gil Hoy


Image from Acropolis Restoration Service
The stones
of the Acropolis

Are mighty stones,
Weighty stones

Some cracked,
Others stained

Stones of time, tribute
Majesty and merit

Set upon higher ground. 

Blue-gray stones set
Above the sea,


Above the hill
And then the world


They are like
what we imagine
Democracy might be


Majority rule,
Minority rights

Free, fair elections
Cooperation,
Compromise.

Blue-gray stones
set above the world
to remind us

That
 democracies
have flown, 
are fleeting.

The stones 
of the Acropolis 

Are mighty stones, 
Weighty stones


Set upon higher ground. 


Gil Hoy is a Boston poet and trial lawyer who studied poetry at Boston University through its Evergreen program.  Hoy received a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Boston University, an M.A. in Government from Georgetown University, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.  He served as a Brookline, Massachusetts Selectman for four terms. Hoy’s poetry has appeared (or will be appearing) most recently in Chiron Review, Ariel Chart, Social Justice Poetry, Poetry24, Right Hand Pointing/One Sentence Poems, The Penmen Review, I am not a silent poet, Clark Street Review and TheNewVerse.News.