***Margaret Walker(July 7th)***
Hotep! Today is Thursday, July 7th 2005, and here is something that happened in Black History on this date:
In 1915, The famous writer Margaret Walker was born.
Dark Blood by Margaret Walker
There were bizarre beginnings in old lands for the making of me.
There were sugar sands and islands of fern and pearl, palm jungles and stretches of a never-ending sea.
There were the wooing nights of tropical lands and the cool discretion of flowering plains between two stalwart hills.
They nurtured my coming with wanderlust.
I sucked fevers of adventure through my veins with my mother's milk.
Someday I shall go to the tropical lands of my birth, to the coasts of continents and the tiny wharves of islandshores.
I shall roam the Balkans and the hot lanes ofAfrica and Asia.
I shall stand on mountain tops and gaze on fertile homes below.
And when I return to Mobile I shall go by the way of Panama and Bocas del Toro to the littered streets and the one-room shacks of my old poverty, and blazing suns of other lands may struggle then to reconcile the pride and pain in me.
In 1915, The famous writer Margaret Walker was born.
Dark Blood by Margaret Walker
There were bizarre beginnings in old lands for the making of me.
There were sugar sands and islands of fern and pearl, palm jungles and stretches of a never-ending sea.
There were the wooing nights of tropical lands and the cool discretion of flowering plains between two stalwart hills.
They nurtured my coming with wanderlust.
I sucked fevers of adventure through my veins with my mother's milk.
Someday I shall go to the tropical lands of my birth, to the coasts of continents and the tiny wharves of islandshores.
I shall roam the Balkans and the hot lanes ofAfrica and Asia.
I shall stand on mountain tops and gaze on fertile homes below.
And when I return to Mobile I shall go by the way of Panama and Bocas del Toro to the littered streets and the one-room shacks of my old poverty, and blazing suns of other lands may struggle then to reconcile the pride and pain in me.
posted by ahlam at 10:05 AM
3 Comments:
This was beautiful!
I read a few of her pieces on her website.
I am learning so much about numerous black female poets. My cyber buds have been sharing the info and I am so grateful.
Here is her site...
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/walker/
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