“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…
WINNIE MANDELA WE LOVE YOU
En Español The name “Lucy,” which appears in the following poem, was given by paleoanthropologists to the fossilized skeleton of the most ancient, recognizably human ancestral figure ever found. A female being…
The Long Road Home Poem for Muhammad Ali
The Long Road Home ©2016 by Alice Walker I am beginning to comprehend the mystery of the gift of suffering. It is true as some have said that it is a crucible in…
Lodestar ©2015 by Alice Walker
Lodestar ©2015 by Alice Walker Here is what I believe Will be the hardest thing To do: To remember That we have A soul. It is so quiet The soul And weighs Almost…
THE CIRCLE
WHAT DOES THE AWAKENED PERSON DO? photo by AP/David Goldman or Reuters/Randall Hill (!) THE CIRCLE ©2015 by Alice Walker I myself do not believe In political parties Comprised, generally, in my experience, of so…
The Energy Of The Wave – For the people of Africa
The Energy Of The Wave For the people of Africa (facing armored tanks and other weapons they did not make) ©2015 by Alice Walker As a child I sensed But did not Grasp…
Wedding Ceremony: Marrying Good Men (from The Cushion in the Road) Spring 2013
Marrying Good Men A month ago, I married two good men. To each other. You can imagine how this must have shocked my grandparents, with whom I continue to have a close relationship,…
Revolutionary Petunias
These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls…
ONCE (1968)
This first volume of poetry established Alice Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of these poems were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965,…
