Tag: Lucille Clifton
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Keep light for generations to come!
Imagine being described as honest, clear-eyed or simply impressive. These words were used by Toni Morrison herself to describe Lucille Clifton’s memoir ‘Generations.’ Lucille Clifton was more than a poet. The best too if I might add. She was a mother to six children and a prolific children’s book author. Her name Lucile meant light…
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Keep doors closed!
I woke up this morning refusing to answer the door. Refusing to let the rays of the day seep in and envelope my being. Then I remembered Lucille. I remembered her praise for impossible things. Blessed things too. You might as well answer the door, she would also say. For truth is furiously knocking. The…
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Keep moments of light!
Light slowly starts to seep in, during: Moments of intense smear, turned Moments of intense fear, which birth Moments of intense tear, that lead to Moments of intense here and now, of Moments of intense revere, that opened Moments of intense clear, for you, As your light slowly starts to seeps in. Keep these moments…
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Keep rising above stars.
When I discovered Lucille Clifton, I discovered life above the stars. It’s was magical. She is magical. I am becoming magical too. As I rise above stars.
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Keep flying above your possibilities!
Let’s fly above our possibilities, Lucille Clifton once said to my spirit, to which I responded, not just my possibilities, but how about flying above our abilities. Above my ambitions. Above their admissions. Above any ammunitions. And above their assumptions. Then the spirit moved me and said you are onto something, keep flying above your…
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Keep becoming light!
Lucile Clifton once shared, how our lives are a circular stair. It keeps turning through time. To know why, we circle the world and back, one year after the other, is to know light. I am flooded by the brilliance of light. A majestic ray, that blooms, past the very speed of itself. The very…
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