To Vote- Say I Love You Every Day: With Your Mouth
Para Votar – Di Te Amo Todos Los Días: Con Tu Boca Say it to the Pangolin. And the Zimbabwean. Photo: National Geographic Dígaselo al Pangolín. Y el Zimbabuense. Foto: National Geographic …
The (Our) Social Dilemma & a Poem – Outrunning the Machine
El (nuestro) dilema social The (Our) Social Dilemma is without doubt one of the most important documentaries ever made, though a gratuitous slap down of “conspiracy theorists” sows the division it is…
(Defend Julian Assange) Gabriel Assange Wants To Count! ©2020 by Alice Walker
¡Gabriel Assange Quiere Contar! (Defend Julian Assange) Gabriel Assange Wants To Count! ©2020 by Alice Walker When Gabriel Assange grows up I want him to know that I was…
Dying Wise ©2020 by Alice Walker
Morir Sabio Dying Wise ©2020 by Alice Walker I have experienced Life, so far, As a full on miracle; No matter the slings and arrows Always to be endured On a path of…
New Poems for Ede : For Human Babies and Yorkies : The World Is Not Safe
Nuevos Poemas Para Ede* August 20, 2020 New Poems for Ede For Human Babies and Yorkies The World Is Not Safe © 2020 by Alice Walker For human babies And Yorkies…
An Unknown Soilder ‘You are here profiting off of our f—— pain’: A New York City woman gives a powerful speech to demonstrators destroying neighborhoods
La Soldado Desconocida August 6, 2020 The Unknown Soldier ©2020 by Alice Walker I have been wondering Where the soldiers are The ones that did not come back In body bags. Or…
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 Bitter Poetry of America – LA AMARGA POESÍA DE AMÉRICA
LA AMARGA POESÍA DE AMÉRICA More to come. Yes. ~AW THE BITTER POETRY OF AMERICA “Mama”by George Floyd These are the last words of George Floyd, a 46-year-old man who died as…
Let Me Take the Blame; I Have Learned I Can Carry It
Dejen Que Carque Con La Culpa Let Me Take the Blame ©2020 by Alice Walker Let me take the blame; I have learned I can carry it. Soon we will both Be…
It Is Long, It is Repetitive ©2020 by Alice Walker
Es Largo, Es Reiterativo Alice Walker, moon shoes, fly. Early 90s. Photo by Jean Weisinger It Is Long, It is Repetitive ©2020 by Alice Walker As much as we might like…
I Am Not Waiting ©2020 by Julia Fuhrman Davis
I Am Not Waiting ©2020 by Julia Fuhrman Davis I am not Waiting I am not waiting until social distancing is over I am not waiting until Ohio’s “Stay at Home” order…
You Ask Me Where Can We Go ~ poem ©2018 by Alice Walker
Me Preguntas Adónde Podemos Ir You Ask Me Where Can We Go ©2018 by Alice Walker You ask me where can we go And I can say only one place With certainty:…
Wherever You Are Grieving
Wherever You Are Grieving ©2015 by Alice Walker It does not matter to me: Wherever you are grieving Whether Paris, Damascus, Jerusalem, Bamako, Mexico or Beirut or New York City My heart, too,…
Refugees ©2015 by Alice Walker
Refugees ©2015 by Alice Walker They would not be running to us If we were not chasing them With the guns and bombs and rockets we sold To crazy people: Out of their…