We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us t… - Joy Harjo

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We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us to the hells of destruction.

Joy Harjo

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Joy Harjo (May 9, 1951) is a poet, musician, author and the first Native American United States Poet Laureate.

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When a despot ineptly sought to turn a country to a totalitarian nightmare, where was poetry? It wasn't sleeping. It kept the poets up at night. We wrote against despair toward beauty, toward a truth that could imprison us for making liars out of the fools deposited in the seats of power, kept there by puppets who kneeled in piles of promissory notes.

All those you thought you lost now circle you
And you are free of pain and heartbreak.
Don't look back, keep going.
We will carry your memory here, until we join you
In just a little while, in one blink of star time.

All for that welcome home dance,
The most favorite of all — when everyone finds their way back together
to dance, eat and celebrate.
And tell story after story
of how they fought and played
in the story wheel
and how no one
was ever really lost at all.

We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us to the hells of destruction. - Joy Harjo

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