AUDIO: Margaret Walker - I Want To Write‬‏ - YouTube

Magaret Walker

 on Oct 20, 2010

Margaret Walker reads her poem I Want To Write

I Want To Write
by Margaret Walker (1915-1998)

I want to write
I want to write the songs of my people.
I want to hear them singing melodies in the dark.
I want to catch the last floating strains from their sob-torn

throats.

I want to frame their dreams into words; their souls into

notes.

I want to catch their sunshine laughter in a bowl;
fling dark hands to a darker sky
and fill them full of stars
then crush and mix such lights till they become
a mirrored pool of brilliance in the dawn.