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Amanda Gorman Releases Poem ‘New Day’s Lyric’ to Usher The New Year 2022

Amanda’s intriguing poem touches upon subjects like pain, hope and healing. It looks back at the past year that was infused with disease, pain as well as recovery and hope.

Amanda Gorman Releases Poem ‘New Day’s Lyric’ to Usher The New Year 2022

American poet Amanda Gorman who achieved international fame for reading ‘The Hill We Climb’ at President Joe Biden’s inauguration posted a new poem ‘New Day’s Lyric’ coupled with a video on her Insta Handle. This step was taken to mark the end of 2021 and usher the new year 2022. 

Amanda’s intriguing poem touches upon subjects like pain, hope and healing. It looks back at the past year that was infused with disease, pain as well as recovery and hope. 

The poem has a catchy title ‘New Day’s Lyric’ that offers a lot of insight on the challenging situations the country faced in 2021. It was written to “celebrate the new year and honor the hurt & the humanity of the last one.” 

Gorman published several books this year including ‘The Hill We Climb’, illustrated children’s poetry book, Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem and a new poetry collection called ‘Call What We Carry.’ She also penned a poem ‘Chorus of the Captains’ in celebration of three “honorary captains” at the Super Bowl.

The five stanza poem written by the 23-year-old is bound to tug your heart-strings. You’ll also notice how the poet has chosen words that rhyme beautifully. 

Enjoy: 

“New Day’s Lyric”

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.

……..

………

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.




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