ChloeHills

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  April 2020     3 years ago

Submitted Poems 6 total

To Die Before One Wakes Must be Glad

die before one
wakes
must be glad
(to the same extent
 maybe
 that it is also
...

by Alice Walker

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Freedom's Plow

When a man starts out with nothing,
When a man starts out with his hands
Empty, but clean,
When a man starts to build a world,
He starts first with himself
And the faith that is in his heart-
The strength there,
The will there to build.

...

by Langston Hughes

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South: The Name of Home


all that night
I prayed for eyes to see again
whose last sight
had been
a broken bottle
held negligently
in a racist
fist
God give us trees to plant
and hands and eyes to
love them.
 
ii
When I am here again
the years of ease between...

by Alice Walker

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For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties

Once made a fairy rooster from
Mashed potatoes
Whose eyes I forget
But green onions were his tail
And his two legs were carrot sticks
A tomato slice his crown.
Who came home on vacation
When the sun was hot
and cooked
and cleaned
And...

by Alice Walker

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Be Nobody’s Darling

Be nobody’s darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm.
 
Watch the people succumb
To madness
With ample cheer;
Let them look askance at you
And you...

by Alice Walker

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