Unbroken Chains by Harold Murphy
- Marla Beaver
- Dec 4
- 3 min read
This Column is dedicated to the "Unbroken Chain" of black poets who have given us a legacy of poetic treasures to share:
To Fitzgerald Beaver, The Founder of THE FACTS NEWSPAPER:
The FACTS FAMILY : The FACTS STAFF
Limen
By: Natasha Trethewey
All day I've listened to the Industry
of a single woodpecker, worrying the catalpa tree
just outside my window. Hard at his task.
his body is a hinge, a door knocker
to the clustered house of memory ln which
I can almost see my mother's face.
She is there again, beyond the tree,
its slender pods and heart shaped leaves, simply
hanging wet sheets on the line ===each one,
a thin white screen between us. So insistent
in this woodpecker , l am sure he must be
looking for something else---not simply
the beetles and grubs inside,but some other gift
the tree might be asking the green leaves
the beetles and grubs inside , but some other gift
the tree might hold. All day he's been at work.,
tireless, making the green hearts flutter,
The Author of this poem is Natash Trethewey (1966- ). She has received numerous Honors and Awards.A Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2007 is one of these Honors. She is an artist influenced by the philosophy of the Great Iconic Black Writer ... James Baldwin. This philosophy is that ... " the only concern of the artist is to recreate out of the disorder of life ... that order which is
art ". The above poem and philosophy continues to strengthen The Unbroken Broken of Black Poetry .
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