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06-07-2009 at 12:15:46 PM

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

READ OREN COUSINS' REDEMPTION SONG

Redemption Song is a monument erected in Emancipation Park, Kingston, Jamaica, Ju;y 2003, to commemorate the 170th, year of the abolishment of sl;avery in British territories,
It consiss of two gigantic bronze nudes (a man and a woman) facing each other and standing in a fountain.
There was a national furore when it was unveiled. Since then, this monument is tolerated, treated with indifferenc and even admired,

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.
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