Artificial Intelligence

Walt Whitman

The All American Writer

As pure as apple cider

You were an iconoclast

A man after my own heart

Outwitting the rest

Giving the world your best

Providing illuminating imagery

Paradox to stimulate intellectually

Active with political activity

To "Honest Abe"

Showing yourself friendly

Expressive in regard to democracy

Vocal concerning slavery

Uninhibited with your philosophy

Boldly opposing structured rigidity

Self-celebratory

Untamed and untranslatable

Your writings not degradable

Breaking barriers

You published your own

Taking Leaves of Grass

Making the world its home

Your perception and presumption

Received maximum absorption

As you said,

"What I assume you shall assume"

For your piece

Ralph Waldo Emerson made room

A free man

Writing free verse

With a New Yorker's attitude of course

Building bridges

Be it by your spider's filament

Or crossing gulfs

By the Brooklyn Ferry

Enraptured by big city vibrancy

Sophistication and intellectual stimulation

Providing ample literary opportunity

Despite criticism, conflict and controversy

Walt let his heart lead him

Even if that sometimes meant contradiction

An earthy man who loved nature

Walt put faith in the common man

And found vitality in simplicity

Socializing wholeheartedly

With friends on both sides of the Atlantic

With his time and resources philanthropic

During the Civil War

He nursed the sick and wounded

Providing compassionate care

Unlike most he did dare

To give of himself

Beyond lectures and charity

His tomb self-designed in Harleigh Cemetery

Walt worked wonders

With His god-given talent

Yet remained humble in his self-assessment

Saying, "I am as bad as the worst,

but, thank God,

I am as good as the best."

Well said dear Walt

May your soul take rest.

I pray I like you

Can be so gifted and blessed.

Paul Davis is a masterful poet, worldwide professional speaker, minister and author of several books including Breakthrough for a Broken Heart; and Stop Lusting & Start Living.

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