New Year’s Day

                by Roger W Hancock

A new beginning once each year,

high-spirited resolutions.

Intended purpose or fermented spirit,

perseverance once each year.

Another calendar to plan again

let priority of family be your gain.

Record the plans that you dream,

lest fleeting time to pass them by.

It takes on the hour of each 24 hours,

on one day to begin each year.

Celebrations ‘round the clock,

for purposeful existence to renew.

Midnight comes, hands straight up,

the end of one small era.

Let the next be your best,

in the coming of this year next.

Each 24 hours hands straight up,

around the world begins each year.

Cheers of shouts and so much noise,

as the hands of time roll by.

© Copyright 12-04-2001 Roger W Hancock  www.PoetPatriot.com 

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Martin Luther King

by Roger W Hancock

Martin Luther King, Junior,

a modern man of great.

On principal in peace he stood,

his words, his character proved.

Content of ones character,

the essence of a man.

To be judged by who you are,

not by your skin color.

Simple truth, spoke the King,

yet men in ignorance stand.

Bigotry in depth of man,

in need of light to fade the dark.

Reverend King spoke God’s truth,

equality between each race.

I simplify his speech,

with ‘consideration’ for us each.

The man spoke for all on earth,

not only for one race.

Forgive, forget, move on in peace,

With no tolerance for injustice.

Peaceful nonviolence to the end,

his words, his wisdom proclaim.

Perseverance against unjust laws,

in peace changing social law.

The man, the King, modern prophet,

whose message changed America.

Justice increased, yet more to come,

justice prevails within the peace.

               © Copyright 1-13-2002  Roger W Hancock  www.PoetPatriot.com 

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