{"id":7254,"date":"2026-01-29T12:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:07:21","slug":"breaking-young-national-poet-amanda-gorman-just-released-a-poem-about-alex-pretti-and-its-breaking-hearts-nationwide-nobody-saw-this-coming-amid-the-shock-and-pain-over-alex-pret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=7254","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Young National Poet Amanda Gorman Just Released a Poem About Alex Pretti \u2014 and It\u2019s Breaking Hearts Nationwide. Nobody saw this coming. Amid the shock and pain over Alex Pretti\u2019s death, a poem has suddenly appeared \u2014 not from a random voice, but from Amanda Gorman, one of America\u2019s most powerful young poets. The lines aren\u2019t just words on a page. They feel like the echo of a moment that hasn\u2019t stopped echoing in people\u2019s minds. The piece reflects loss, betrayal, and a deep, unfiltered sorrow \u2014 the kind of sorrow that can\u2019t be spun into a hashtag or swept under the rug. It\u2019s raw. It\u2019s urgent. It\u2019s the kind of verse that feels like someone looked directly at a national wound and dared to name it. And that\u2019s what\u2019s going viral. Because the poem doesn\u2019t just mourn a life tragically lost. It asks a question about what it means to be seen\u2026 acknowledged\u2026 remembered. People are saying they\u2019ve never heard her write like this before \u2014 that this piece feels like something bigger than art. Something collective. Something that refuses to stay silent. Watch the video of the poem \u2014 and read the lines everyone can\u2019t stop talking about."},"content":{"rendered":"
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BREAKING: National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman composes a powerful poem about the tragic murder of Alex Pretti at the hands of Trump\u2019s masked enforcers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Gorman is well known for writing and delivering her poem \u201cThe Hill We Climb\u201d at President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration and previously penned a poem about the killing of Renee Good.<\/div>\n
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\u201cFor Alex Jeffrey Pretti\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Murdered by I.C.E. January 24, 2026<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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by Amanda Gorman<\/div>\n
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We wake with no words, just woe & wound. Our own country shoot ing us in the back is not just brutal ity; it\u2019s jarring betrayal; not enforcement, but execution. A message: Love your people & you will die. Yet our greatest threat isn\u2019t the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within. Fear not the those without papers, but those without conscience.<\/div>\n
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Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow. We can feel we have nothing to give, & still belove this world wait ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor, & save one more bright, impossible life.<\/div>\n
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