A review by misspalah
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings by Alice Walker

4.0

Bear in mind that Alice walker wrote these poems when she’s on a break from her writing. Hence, this is not a typical long poems. She penned it while currently signing her autographs and decided to give it to her publisher. I have not read any of Alice Walker’s work though i kept the color purple on TBR and have not yet get to it. I enjoyed her poems. I enjoyed her topics and the way she constructed her poems. It was simple yet elegant, it was meaningful yet not discombobulated with complicated phrases. As for the interpretation, i believe Alice Walker let us readers to define it on our own and find comfort in her words.
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War grief remains unsold.
Neither the war nor the infant
was sent to save us from our fate.
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To fall is easy.
Even so,
falling will not help.
No gadget in all Creation to distract us forever
from our grief.
We have seen Paradise
over and over
we have lost it
every time.
Is it the same
Paradise
we lose so constantly.
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Earth Mother will win
in the end
absorb us casually
grow perfect creations
from our mistakes.
Her life so long
can start over
over again without us.