Monday, August 31, 2026

OBSCURE POET

 

CLARISSA SCOTT DELANY.  (1901-1927)

Poet, essayist, educator, social worker

Associated with the Harlem Renaissance

Had 4 poems published

Poems were allegorical in nature


JOY

Joy shakes me like the wind that lifts the sail

Like the roistering wind

That laughs through stalwart pines

It floods me like the sun

On rain-drenched trees

That flash with silver and green.


I abandon myself to joy

I laugh-I sing,

Too long have I walked a desolate way

Too long stumbled down a maze 

Bewildered.

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