Naomi Long Madgett Quotes

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Wait in the shadows if you choose.
Stand alert to catch
The thunder and first sprinkle of unrest
Your insufficiency demands,
But you will find no comfort.
I will not feed your hunger with my blood
Nor crown your nakedness
With jewels of my elegant pain.

Naomi Long Madgett

This is not what I meant to keep
I thought of bitter-bright rememberings
pressed petals of forget—me—nots
or once-bold daffodils
not this hardness,
not
these bitter stalks of
weeds

Naomi Long Madgett

Naomi Long Madgett

Naomi Long Madgett

Born: July 5, 1923

Died: November 5, 2020 (aged 97)

Bio: Naomi Long Madgett was an African-American poet, born Naomi Cornelia Long in Norfolk, Virginia. A teacher and an award-winning poet, she was also the senior editor of Lotus Press, a publisher of poetry books by black poets.

Known for:

Remembrances of spring (1993)
Octavia: Guthrie and Beyond (2002)
Pilgrim Journey: Autobiography (2006)
Octavia and other poems (1988)

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