The hill we climb – Amanda Gorman (2021) hope day 0
But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated. In this truth, in this faith we trust for while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us. This is the era of just redemption. We feared it at its inception. We did not feel prepared to […]
I think I’m good – Kassa Overall (2020) d1378
I was a joyous child, if ever I ever was a childMemories feel like dreams deferred, time looks like a circle
The great realisation – Tomos Robertson aka Tom Foolery (2020) d1267
“And so when we found the cure, and were allowed to go outside; we all preferred the world we found to the one we’d left behind.”
Lift every voice and sing – Melba Moore and friends (1990) d1090
Stony the road we trod,Bitter the chastening rod,Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat,Have not our weary feetCome to the place for which our fathers sighed?We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,Out from […]
Traces of the western slope – Rickie Lee Jones (1981) d853
Who’s the thin thread of lightThat keeps you strangled in the sceneryThat follows my voice – can you see me?Then follow my voice
The Negro Speaks of Rivers – Langston Hughes (1920) d380
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the […]
A Story Like Mine – Halsey (2018) d368
It’s 2009 and I’m 14 and I’m crying Not really sure where I am but I’m holding the hand of my best friend Sam In the waiting room of a Planned Parenthood The air is sterile and clean, and the walls are that not grey, but green And the lights are so bright they could […]
