Rational Poetry
This being our first Alert of the year, I thought I’d present you with something a little different. The following poem was written by my friend and long-time colleague Jim Woods. Jim is a fantastic writer who uses words as if they were weapons in defense of virtues such as liberty, rationality and the free market. In this piece, he praises the virtue of commerce, and he tells us all how important it is to protect and defend what makes modern life possible.
Trust Of A Child
By Jim Woods
Defenses down
I stare out at the harbor in wonder
A perch paid for with poetry
My spirit resonates with prideThe light of a thousand enterprises
Flickers with the power of thought
So many abstractions put into motion
So many lives sustainedThe effort of creation
Plays out in the distance
A port for the best within us
Ushers in the material of modern lifeOn guard against that which threatens
All that civilization has acquired
I pick up the pen
Like a sentinel on alertSecuring that which is sacred
The mission of preservation never rests
I’ll traverse the winds of progress
With the trust of a child
Jim Woods is a 30-plus-year veteran of the markets with varied experience as a broker, hedge fund trader, financial writer, author and newsletter editor.
His books include co-authoring, “Billion Dollar Green: Profit from the Eco Revolution,” and “The Wealth Shield: How to Invest and Protect Your Money from Another Stock Market Crash, Financial Crisis or Global Economic Collapse.” He’s also ghostwritten many books and articles, as well as edited content for some of the investment industry’s biggest luminaries. Read more about Jim Woods.
