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[iwasadoredonceto]

We have learned that Just Is Isn't always Justice ... We have our eyes on the future While history has its eyes on us ... There is always light  If we are brave enough to see it There is always light If we are brave enough to be it

Amanda Gorman ~National Poet Laureate

Inauguration -January 20th, 2021

Entire Speech

[megjgrey]

When the Sea Sings :: Page 3 | Tapas

page 3 is up!

[fakesurprise]

every word betrayed  the colour of her thoughts and when the endorsements began to {evanesco} vanish

disputes over turf began to show only the ugly truths 

every tweet a wounding curse killing trust once and again

[ufeelwhatimsayin]

[poemsbykari]

I lie awake at night listening to the sound of the rain outside my window, and for once, I don't think of the past.

This time I think of you.

[unwrittenpoetree]

people always ask me how we are doing; as though it’s their business to know

sometimes they ask about the negatives; I think it speaks volumes that I can never think of any

I always just says, “he’s a peach and makes my heart happy”

I like how I can say that

/lilk/

[fakesurprise]

All I ever learned of wisdom Was to take gifts as I found them Your smile when someone else Would offer up riotous laughter Worth more than I ever know I have learned that treasures Are made far more than found And everything between us Need never be voiced at all

[dongtorres]

Storm...

Storm…

And so it rains, hard and loud,The wind howls just like my heart,The chaos, the fear, the awful sound,Sends shivers up my broken parts. Cold from being drenched within,Scars of past battles o’er my skin,Eyes glisten on the candlelight,Sorrow in the deep deadly night. Palm to palm I quietly pray,Tomorrow comes a brighter day,In the dark where no work is done,I will wait for the burning sun. As…

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