We Have A Beautiful Mother

                                                              We have a beautiful
                                                              Mother
                                                              Her hills
                                                              Are buffaloes'
                                                              Her buffaloes
                                                              Hills.

                                                             We have a beautiful
                                                             Mother
                                                             Her oceans
                                                             Are wombs
                                                             Her wombs
                                                             Oceans.

                                                             We have a beautiful
                                                             Mother
                                                             Her teeth
                                                             The white stones
                                                             At the edge
                                                             Of the water
                                                             The summer
                                                             Grasses
                                                             Her plentiful
                                                             Hair.

                                                             We have a beautiful
                                                             Mother
                                                             Her green
                                                             Lap immense
                                                             Her brown embrace
                                                             Eternal
                                                             Her blue body
                                                             Everything
                                                             We know.

                                                                Alice Walker