The collected poems of Audre Lorde

The first cities (1968): Memorial II

"I die for all mysterious things"

A family resemblance

Coal

What my child learns of the sea

Now that I am forever with child

Bridge through my windows

Second spring

Spring III

Gemini

To a girl who knew what side her

Bread was buttered on

Nightstone

Father Son and Holy Ghost

Pirouette

Generation

Echo

Oaxaca

Father, the year is fallen

If you come softly

Suffer the children

A child shall lead

A lover's song

Return

Suspension

Cables to rage (1970): Rites of passage

Summer oracle

Song

Spring people

Rooming houses are old women

Bloodbirth

After a first book

Martha

And what about the children

The dozens

The woman thing

A poem for a poet

Conversation in crisis

Sowing

Making it

On a night of the full moon

Fantasy and conversation

Dreams bite ...

From a land where other people live (1973): For each of you

The day they eulogized Mahalia

Equinox

Progress report

Good mirrors are not cheap

Black mother woman

As I grow up again

The seventh sense

New Year's day

Teacher

Moving out or the end of

Cooperative living

Moving in

Neighbors

Change of season

Generation II

Love, maybe

Relevant is different

Points on the circle

Signs

Conclusion

A song of names and faces

Movement song

The winds of Orisha

Who said it was simple

Dear Toni

Prologue

New York head shop and museum (1974): New York City 1970

To my daughter the junkie on a train

To Desi as Joe as smoky the lover of 115th Street

The American Cancer Society

A sewerplant grows in Harlem

A birthday memorial to Seventh Street

One year to life on Grand Central shuttle

The workers rose on May day

Cables to rage

Keyfood

A trip on the Staten Island ferry

My fifth trip to Washington ended In Northeast Delaware

Now

To the girl who lives in a tree

Barren

Hard love rock #II.

Memorial IV

Love poem

Mentor

The fallen

Separation

Even

Memorial III from a phone booth on Broadway

And don't think I won't be waiting

For my singing sister

Monkeyman

Naturally

Song for a thin sister

Release time

Revolution is one form of social change

Oya

All hallows eve

Ballad from childhood

Times change and we change with them

To Marie, in flight

The bees

Viet-nam addenda

Visit to a city out of time

The brown menace

Sacrifice

Blackstudies

Coal (1976): Rites of passage

Father Son and Holy Ghost

Coal

Rooming houses are old women

The woman thing

Oaxaca

Summer oracle

Generation

A family resemblance

Song

On a night of the full moon

Now that I am forever with child

What my child learns of the sea

Spring people

Poem for a poet

Story books on a kitchen table

Pirouette

Hard love rock

Father the year has fallen

Gemini

Bridge through my window

Conversations in crisis

The maiden

When the saints come marching in

On midsummer's eve

Dreams bite

Suspension

A child shall lead

Afterlove

The dozens

And what about the children

For the king and queen of summer

Fantasy and conversation

Paperweight

Martha

Memorial I

Memorial II

The songless lark

Anniversary

Second spring

To a girl who knew what side her bread was buttered on

Between our selves (1976): Power

School note

Solstice

Scar

Between ourselves

Outside

A woman/dirge for wasted children

The black unicorn (1978): The black unicorn

A woman speaks

From the house of Yemanja

Coniagui women

A rock thrown into the water does not fear the cold

Dahomey

125th Street and Abomey

The women of Dan

Sahara

Harriet

Chain

Sequelae

For Assata

At first I thought you were

Talking about ...

A litany for survival

Meet

Seasoning

Touring

Walking our boundaries

Eulogy for Alvin Frost

Chorus

Coping.

To Martha: a New Year

In Margaret's garden

Scar

Portrait

A song for many movements

Brother Alvin

School note

Digging

Outside

Therapy

The same death over and over

Ballad for ashes

A woman/dirge for wasted children

Parting

Timepiece

Fog report

Pathways: from mother to mother

Death dance for a poet

Dream/songs from the moon of Beulah Land I-V

Recreation

Woman

Timing

Ghost

Artisan

Letter for Jan

Bicentennial poem # 21,000,000

The old days

Contact lenses

Lightly

Hanging fire

But what can you teach my daughter

From inside an empty purse

A small slaughter

From the greenhouse

Journeystones I-XI

About religion

Sister outsider

Bazaar

Power

Eulogy

"Never take fire from a woman"

Between ourselves

Future promise

The Trollop maiden

Solstice

A glossary of African names used in the poems

(New poems from) Chosen poems: Old and new (1982): The evening news

Za Ki Tan ke parlay lot

Afterimages

A poem for women in rage

October

Sister, morning is a time for miracles

Need: a choral of black women's voices

Our dead behind us (1986): Sisters in arms

To the poet who happens to be black and the black poet who happens to be a woman

Outlines

Stations

Equal opportunity

Soho cinema

Vigil

Berlin is hard on colored girls

This urn contains earth from German

Concentration camps

Mawu

Fishing the white water

On the edge

Naming the stories

Diaspora

The horse casts a shoe

Reins

Wood has no mouth

A meeting of minds

The art of response

From the cave

A question of climate

Out to the hard road

Every traveler has one Vermont poem

For Judith

For Jose and Regina

Beverly's poem

Big apple circus

Florida

Home

Burning the water hyacinth

Political relations

Learning to write

On my way out I pass

Over you and the Verrazano Bridge

Out of the wind

Holographs

There are no honest poems.

About dead women

A question of essence

For the record

Ethiopia

Generation III

Never to dream of spiders

Beams

Call

The marvelous arithmetics of distance (1993): Smelling the wind

Legacy

hers

Making love to concrete

Echoes

Domino

Thaw

Party time

Prism

Do you remember Laura

Inheritance

His

The one who got away

Depreciation

Syracuse airport

Thanks to Jesse Jackson

Judith's fancy

Production

Building

jessehelms

Dear Joe

Women on trains

The politics of addiction

Kitchen linoleum

Oshun's table

Parting

Peace on earth

Restoration: a memorial-9/18/91

Starting all over again

What it means to be beautiful

Hugo I

Construction

Speechless

For Craig

East Berlin

The night-blooming Jasmine

Girfriend

Lunar eclipse

Change

Today is not the day

The electric slide boogie.