{"id":5166,"date":"2026-06-18T21:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:07:26","slug":"a-poem-for-a-thursday-330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/a-poem-for-a-thursday-330\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #330"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alice Walker is an American novelist, poet, and social activist. She became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize when she was awarded it for her novel, The Color Purple.<\/em> The novel was the subject of a movie and a Broadway musical. Walker is described as “a meticulous observer of human relationships and interactions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm.
Watch the people succumb
To madness
With ample cheer;
Let them look askance at you
And you askance reply.
Be an outcast;
Be pleased to walk alone
(Uncool)
Or line the crowded
River beds
With other impetuous
Fools.

Make a merry gathering
On the bank
Where thousands perished
For brave hurt words
They said.

Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Qualified to live
Among your dead.


Be Nobody's Darling
Alice Walker<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alice Walker is an American novelist, poet, and social activist. She became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize when she was awarded it for her novel, The Color Purple. The novel was the subject of a movie and a Broadway musical. Walker is described as “a meticulous observer of human relationships and interactions.” Be nobody’s darling;Be an outcast.Take the contradictionsOf your lifeAnd wrap aroundYou like a shawl,To parry stonesTo keep you warm.Watch the people succumbTo madnessWith ample cheer;Let them look askance at youAnd you askance reply.Be an outcast;Be pleased to walk alone(Uncool)Or line the crowdedRiver bedsWith other impetuousFools.Make a merry gatheringOn the bankWhere thousands perishedFor brave hurt wordsThey said.Be nobody’s darling;Be an outcast.Qualified to liveAmong your dead.Be Nobody’s DarlingAlice Walker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem-for-a-thursday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5169,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions\/5169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}