Sherry Granum
The amazing Amanda Gorman, youth poet laureate in the US, stunned the audience at the recent inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as President and Vice President of the United States, with the beauty and power of ‘The Hill We Climb’ – the poem she’d written for the occasion.
Her presentation is well worth multiple viewings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz4YuEvJ3y4
The poem ends with six lines Friends might find particularly resonant:
When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it.
Amanda Gorman
from ‘The Hill We Climb’
2021
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Forty-Three Newsletter • Number 502 • February 2021
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