Walt Whitman- Poem to Barack Obama

Originally published in November 2008, this short film honors the new president with lines from the poem "Our Old Feuillage" (foliage), Whitman's bouquet collected across "my ever-united lands."
"How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?" Photographs from across America by Chris Highland (chrishighlandimages.com). Includes fiddle music from the Civil War era.

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• obama
• whitman
• poetry
• poems
• nature
• chaplain
• spirit
• america
• civil war

[templenature]

Thanks, Dan. Many forms of fear-flaming around for sure. Hope we can each and all learn to balance it with a sane and sensible lifestyle and reasonable outlook. All the best!

[revdoc2001]

Hi Chris, Dan Wolpert here. Nice video. Terror is certainly growing. Our own projections are getting scarier and scarier....