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A lot of the skilled polling underestimated the dimensions of the blue wave that will roll throughout the nation Tuesday night time. One one that knew what was going to occur? Stevie Nicks. Have you learnt what a witchy girl like Nicks does when she is aware of how issues are going to go? She writes a poem.
On Friday, Nicks shared a poem she wrote on October 8 as “somewhat prayer for the approaching elections.” “I actually believed that what has occurred was going to occur; it simply needed to,” Nicks wrote to her followers in an X submit. Within the poem, titled “Morning Symphony,” Nicks writes about feeling hopeful within the mornings solely to be reminded of the state of the world (the tildes are her personal flourish):
After which I bear in mind~
What I’ll see~
Is that we’re at conflict~
Individuals are ravenous~
Proper right here — in america
We’re surrounded — in violence
In chaos — in hate~
The singer takes up a hopeful tone on the finish of the poem, writing:
No,
I don’t sleep
However I nonetheless consider
It’s nonetheless darkish
However the gentle creates
A circle of angels
Round this place
By way of these tall bushes
And I fall asleep
That’s the dream~
It seems that Nicks has a present for telling the longer term, however perhaps solely within the type of poems that she should share after the very fact. If that’s the case, so be it. I might like to learn a poem of hers within the subsequent yr or in order that’s known as, I don’t know, “Ode to Impeachment Proceedings.” However provided that the vitality strikes her in that route, in fact.
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