[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Wishing that the spirit of Amanda's prophetic voice may be yours in 2022

[Nancy Trask]

Thank you all -- Karen & Jim, John & Lynda, Judi, Linda & Milan, Ellie &
Carleton, and the whole crew!  Poet Amanda & all of you inspire me, and I
am grateful.  Happy New Year!
Nancy Trask

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 11:01 AM Ellie Stock via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Thanks for sending, Karen.  Beautiful and inspiring!
>
> Ellie :)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Snyder via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> To: ICA Dialogue <Dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>; OE Community <
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> Cc: Karen Snyder <karen.snyder10 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Fri, Dec 31, 2021 7:36 am
> Subject: [Dialogue] Wishing that the spirit of Amanda's prophetic voice
> may be yours in 2022
>
> *'New Day's Lyric'*
> *--by Amanda Gorman
> <https://www.dailygood.org/search.php?op=auth&name=Amanda%20Gorman>, Dec
> 31, 2021*
> *May this be the day*
> *We come together.*
> *Mourning, we come to mend,*
> *Withered, we come to weather,*
> *Torn, we come to tend,*
> *Battered, we come to better.*
> *Tethered by this year of yearning,*
> *We are learning*
> *That though we weren't ready for this,*
> *We have been readied by it.*
> *We steadily vow that no matter*
> *How we are weighed down,*
> *We must always pave a way forward.*
> ***
> *This hope is our door, our portal.*
> *Even if we never get back to normal,*
> *Someday we can venture beyond it,*
> *To leave the known and take the first steps.*
> *So let us not return to what was normal,*
> *But reach toward what is next.*
> ***
> *What was cursed, we will cure.*
> *What was plagued, we will prove pure.*
> *Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,*
> *Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,*
> *Where we weren't aware, we're now awake;*
> *Those moments we missed*
> *Are now these moments we make,*
> *The moments we meet,*
> *And our hearts, once all together beaten,*
> *Now all together beat.*
> ***
> *Come, look up with kindness yet,*
> *For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.*
> *We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,*
> *But to take on tomorrow.*
> ***
> *We heed this old spirit,*
> *In a new day's lyric,*
> *In our hearts, we hear it:*
> *For auld lang syne, my dear,*
> *For auld lang syne.*
> *Be bold, sang Time this year,*
> *Be bold, sang Time,*
> *For when you honor yesterday,*
> *Tomorrow ye will find.*
> *Know what we've fought*
> *Need not be forgot nor for none.*
> *It defines us, binds us as one,*
> *Come over, join this day just begun.*
> *For wherever we come together,*
> *We will forever overcome.*
>
>
>
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