ChloeHills's Poems

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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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Suicide

First, suicide notes should be
(not long) but written
second,
all suicide notes
should be signed
in blood
by hand
and to the point—
that point being, perhaps,
that there is none.
Thirdly, if it is the thought
of rest that
fascinates ...

– by Alice Walker

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