blessing the boats
(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...
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This poem first appeared in Quilting: Poems 1987-1990. Read the rest of this sweet little poem here.
In 2000 Ms. Clifton won the National Book award for "Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000". Read the NYT article.
More links:
Thoughts of a woman by Sarah Brooks
Biography and Story: On Strength Gotten From Others
More of her Poems
The Friday Poetry round up is over at Big A, Little a today. Enjoy!
4 comments:
Thanks for posting this lovely poem.
I once visited St. Mary's College (a friend teaches there), and there are poems of Lucille Clifton's posted at intervals all around this beautiful shaded pathway on the campus.
I love Lucille Clifton :-)
Was a lovely poem and great links too!
BlueRectangle Books
This marks my discovery of another great woman poet. Thank you very much for posting this!
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