#lucille Clifton

[anthropoetics]

[sicknessinmotion]

I MISS A LOVE I NEVER HAD; ON LONGING

unknown // haruki murakami // unknown // lucille clifton // emily palermo // mahmoud darwish // frank o’hara.

[lunchboxpoems]

LUCILLE CLIFTON

[havingapoemwithyou]

birth-day by Lucille Clifton

[jeyneofpoole]

leda 1, 2, 3

[petaltexturedskies]

The moon understands dark places. The moon has secrets of her own. She holds what light she can.

Lucille Clifton, from "Moonchild" in The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010

[apoemaday]

Blessing the Boats

by Lucille Clifton

(at St. Mary’s)

may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back     may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

[earthjrnl]

Lucille Clifton, a foamy chai latte, & a maple leaf mug cookie.

[kafk-a]

[elwenyere]

— Lucille Clifton

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[lunchboxpoems]

LUCILLE CLIFTON (again and again and again ♥️)

[havingapoemwithyou]

mother-tongue: after the flood by Lucille Clifton

[dk-thrive]

won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life?

— Lucille Clifton, from "Won't You Celebrate with Me" in The Book of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 1993) (via Read a Little Poetry)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Lucille Clifton

[apoemaday]

homage to my hips

by Lucille Clifton

these hips are big hips they need space to move around in. they don’t fit into little petty places. these hips are free hips. they don’t like to be held back. these hips have never been enslaved,   they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips. i have known them to put a spell on a man and spin him like a top!