Carolyn Marie Rodgers, remembered.
Doug Blair 1951 (London)
Black woman poet, born 1940 Chicago
Morning Glory
Sometimes,
When they say this to the child,
when they murmur this to
the retreaters, when they chide
the innocents, when they mouth this
to the God-fearing, God-loving,
(christe eleison) grow up in this world.
grow up, and not in the direction towards
which stars burn, they mean grow evil, evil…
the morning glories wrap themselves as they crawl up the grey garden fence.
like snakes, they wrap themselves around the
wooden planks.
bless the Lord,
oh, my soul.
(Eden Press, 1989)
About this poem
This poem is Carolyn’s finely tuned work, not mine. Saw a collection of same in a poetry periodical from last fall. All memorable thoughts and forms. Poetry.com had not shown any such poems. I wanted to bring attention to her.
Written on May 14, 1989
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 11, 2023
Modified by dougb.21370 on February 11, 2023
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Scheme | X X X X X X X X X X X X X X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 562 |
Words | 127 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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