Help Make My Dream Come True

Having lived my childhood dream to study poetry at the University of Denver, it's obvious that I needed to dream bigger dreams! My new dream is to share the stage with two or more of this country's greatest poets, such as Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton and/or Nikki Giovanni ~ perhaps on the Oprah Winfrey Show ~ where the three of us would perform a choral reading of my work. I encourage anyone who is touched by my work to write to Oprah and ask her to help me make this new dream come true.

UPDATE: Deeply feeling the loss of poetic mother Lucille Clifton, June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010. Now we'll have to wait for another time to sing together.

Please take some time to learn more about this amazing poet and wondrous woman by going HERE. Better still, visit your local library and check out a few of her books of collected poetry. You'll be very glad that you did!

it was a dream

by Lucille Clifton

in which my greater self
rose up before me
accusing me of my life
with her extra finger
whirling in a gyre of rage
at what my days had come to.
what,
i pleaded with her, could i do,
oh what could i have done?
and she twisted her wild hair
and sparked her wild eyes
and screamed as long as
i could hear her
This. This. This.