You cannot legislate music to lockstep nor can you legislat… - Joy Harjo

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You cannot legislate music to lockstep nor can you legislate
the spirit of the music to stop at political boundaries-

-Or poetry, or art, or anything that is of value or matters in
this world, and the next worlds.

This is about getting to know each other

Joy Harjo

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems · January 24, 2017 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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 Sun leaves at dusk, it makes a doorway. We have access to ancestors, to eternity. Breathe out. Ask for forgiveness. Let all hurts and failures go. Let them go.

It was impossible to make it through the tragedy
Without poetry. What are we without winds becoming words?

You were born of a generation that promised to help remember.

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