Joy Harjo A Poem to Get Rid of Fear

[@tatimayers8659]

Who else here for distant learning 😭

[@dmv.pete1]

Me

[@itzMarzLife]

Me

[@randomcat7246]

unfortunately

[@TrustingIssues]

me

[@audreyyoung1471]

*raises hand* here

[@seraphim1069]

Just read Crazy Brave. Beautiful to hear this song from the lips of Joy. Thank you Joy. thank you Creator🌹

[@francesregal4589]

I am so grateful. The US Poet Laureate is someone I am so in awe of and grateful to, thank you Joy Harjo for the gift of your voice and your songs and your music and your Art. Thank you for teaching us to remember about the people who have been here as stewards of the earth for 10,000 years who were almost disappeared. Who are disappeared from our history books. Thank you.

[@rigidgoat]

that was honestly such a beautiful poem. as someone who has just come upon Joy Harjo, she is simply stunning. her weaving of heritage and self-actualization is electric.

[@DosPalomitas]

My heart's in my throat. Thank God for this little gem, this prayer.

[@dhritichakraborty]

This poem made me cry

[@greenewriter]

I love the way Joy talk-sings this poem. Brilliant stuff - Thank you Joy, for sharing this. Oh, and I concur - it really does work!

[@Umamixx]

Poetry is another beautiful way of expression. Gosh I love words with wisdom!

[@aliyahheid]

Powerful statement... “I’m not afraid to be hated”

[@juansaldate584]

bruhhhh im really bout to drop out

[@melissacruz6337]

are you gunna show the analysis orrrrr

[@joannapuleo9159]

Stunning and beautiful. Thank you Joy, for being the exquisite hero that you are.

[@sabrefang0]

Between hearing Joy's poems and Otep's poems they both make awesome poems.

[@Shaukya]

Wow!!!!!! Extraordinary poem, performance. She is sooo deep. Thank you!!!

[@TheAngelnez]

Word art - I have been mesmerized with Ms Harjo for about 25 years - when I first heard her recital of She Had Some Horses - thought of my encounter with her came from out of the blue today...

[@m050f]

The title of this poem is "I Give You Back."

[@charleslavia3104]

Amazing! I wish I had been there in the audience.

[@JavierTijuana]

Love that. Powerful and fearless words.

[@CuyahogaWing]

thank you for posting this. there is never enough opportunity to hear a really really good poet.

[@catherinefitzpatrick9144]

Your beautiful delivery, alone; of your very beautiful poem, made me love you right away. I'm going to listen again right now. Ah, I thank you Joy. And, weren't you appropriately named? Congratulations on being (again, appropriately) named Poet Laureate for 2019; which I was lucky to have heard about through NPR. I look forward to reading your works, but I should first learn what a 'Poet Laureate' is. I'm embarrassed to expose my limited education to the world, but I'm truly more excited about the immediate and confident inspiration you've triggered inside me! Fear be gone! Ahhh! That poem works; and just when I needed it most....

[@rievans57]

Interesting.

[@Tinamusicreggaeluv]

I had the pleasure of meeting her when I was twelve.

[@PoetryETrain]

Thank you Joy, added to a playlist...

[@saxetc]

Very beautiful. Goes straight to the heart.

[@bonniehutchinsreynolds6552]

Two Ears...

[@bambooook]

I love the way you phrase and ponounce yourself. beautiful! I hope Israel will inspire you I'm looking forward to hear you.

[@nkisikid]

i think you are awesome Joy

[@fordtoy2000]

I fear I may have a nightmare of this poem. :P

[@gr8light]

brilliant, thank you

[@papikevin2320]

Bro I hate school

[@rachelransom9455]

I felt this in my core. 🥲

[@clintonkennedy9968]

awesome

[@whereismyspliff]

Who’s here for NAS 200

[@gloriamitchell3518]

👍🏽👍🏽

[@michellekuemmet5323]

This is such a great poem, and such an awesome reading of it.❤❤❤

[@Anits1989]

[@jthiboo]

She is a living legend. She's granted some excellent interviews as US Poet Laureate. It's worth watching "U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo on opening a 'doorway of hope' for indigenous artists" at kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYCko31va6qChtk

[@soulflowerjr]

Why would anybody dislike this?

[@soulflowerjr]

@No Idea Basement guy pacify is not the word. murdered, raped and pillaged is more correct.

[@TheTick509]

Named United States Poet Laureate in 2019. Well deserved.

[@bigdante6921]

i don’t understand this bruh

[@bigdante6921]

No Idea Basement guy ok

[@miel2354]

No Idea Basement guy not all tribes tho. We shouldn’t really say we did the “right” thing because that happened years ago, and it is told through the people that took over. We can’t always rely on the tales of one side of the story, because it will most likely be biased. History is never 100% certain, so we always have to be able to accept that we may be wrong. Even I could be wrong about the tribes, but we have to be open to the fact that the settlers could have completely demolished the way of life of the native Americans. For example, you could hardly call the Trail of Tears a good thing.

[@cathiemarvellous]

@Itz_Hunted thanks for whitesplaining what the poem is "really" about. Slow clap for the guy telling the poet what her poem means. And also your ignorance on the subject of Native American people is truly breathtaking.

[@sharondianneb]

@Itz_Hunted 🧟‍♂️🧙‍♂️🤡👻

[@impimpoundment4943]

@Itz_Hunted Lmao as if British people didn't fucking eat mummies like that shit was medicine get outta here with that "cannibalistic" shit dumbass

[@CuyahogaWing]

yep, i think it works...

[@EagleSlightlyBetter]

Joy, support the struggle for indigenous rights in Israel and Palestine! Please refuse to play Apartheid and cancel your performance at Tel Aviv University.

[@gps8958]

Warrior Woman

[@librariancharlene162]

[@weeub]

wtf

[@theresastocking8869]

the amount of cringe is high lol

[@cookiecat3240]

Ikr