March is Women’s History Month, and there are SO MANY great poems written by women about being women. Here’s a link to a few: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/138721/celebrating-womens-history-month
Lucille Clifton’s work emphasizes endurance and strength through adversity, focusing particularly on the African-American experience and family life. She is said to have composed “physically small poems with enormous and profound inner worlds”. This particular poem asks us to celebrate making up a life even in the face of what has tried to kill her….just as so many women have done throughout history.
won’t you celebrate with me ~ Lucille Clifton
won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.