Poem As I am dying
Como Me Estroy Muriendo Onions drying on a fence photo by Alice Walker 2022 As I am Dying Copyright 2022 by Alice Walker (For all the farmers of the world who are standing…
Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal/ April 24
Feliz Cumpleaños Mumia Abu-Jamal/ Abril 24 Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal/ April 24 What have you given us to accompany our despair? A life lived to the full In a cage too small for…
MY RENEGADE GARDEN IN CAREYES
MI RENEGADO JARDÍN EN CAREYES (Photo by Manuel Vejar Castenada) I Had Only A Month ©2022 by Alice Walker (Especially for GFB who would have been appalled.) I had only a month some…
Valerie Boyd, Presente. Healing the Soul We Love
Sanando El Alma Que Amamos Valerie Boyd, Presente. You Are the Best. ~aw Healing the Soul We Love ©2022 by Alice Walker Yes, Beloved. Though you have left I feel you still Beside…
“I may not get there with you.” Voting For Those Who Could Not. Abrams, Warnock, Ossoff
“I may not get there with you.”* Voting for Those Who Could Not: Standing With Those Who Know For Stacy Abrams, Raphael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff ©2020 by Alice Walker The Promised Land Is…
I Have Married
Me he casado I Have Married © 2020 by Alice Walker I have married Nature My first Love And we Are happy. * Dying At last Nothing Between us. Me…
there is a daughter poem for AOC – Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 2020
hay una hija there is a daughter for AOC © 2020 by Alice Walker there is a daughter taking the floor there is a daughter standing in the light of…
The World Rising
The World Rising ©2017 by Alice Walker The world rising Can put an end To anything: The murder of children Whales Elephants Oceans. Get up. Roll over On that part Of…
Our Daughters Rising Or, In the Hammock With the I Ching
Nuestras hermanas se levantan O en la hamaca con el I Ching Heaven and water go their opposite ways: The image of CONFLICT Thus in all his transactions the superior man Carefully considers…
I Cannot Thank You Enough / No Puedo Agradecerte Lo Suficiente (El Poeta Cubano Manuel García Verdecia)
El poema en espanõl Poem for the man who translates my poems: Cuban poet Manuel Verdecia/with Alice in Havana in the 90s. I Cannot Thank You Enough ©2017 by Alice Walker I cannot…
“Nigger” In the Language of Love
En Español “Nigger” In the Language of Love (Turning a poison into medicine) ©2017 by Alice Walker For all those who remind us how this works. Pretty soon we might…
Sobonfu Somé
En español Sobonfu Somé You left us on the day women all over the world Are rising. Well, you rose too, sweetest Of sisters. You rose and I can see you smiling As…
PRAYER TO THE GREAT AWARENESS (For the awakening.)
Leer poema en español PRAYER TO THE GREAT AWARENESS Copyright 2017 by Alice Walker January 21, 2017 (For the awakening.) I do not doubt that you are there and that I am also,…
A Good Day To Die the inner Standing Rock
December 9, 2016 El poema, UN BUEN DÍA PARA MORIR, en Español A Good Day To Die Copyright © 2016 by Alice Walker the inner Standing Rock There comes a time in…
