Remembrance – Poem by Maya Angelou Your hands easy weight, teasing the bees hived in my hair, your smile at the slope of my cheek. On the occasion, you press above me, glowing, spouting readiness, mystery rapes my reason When you have withdrawn your self and the magic, when only the smell of your love […]
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Insomniac – Poem by Maya Angelou
Insomniac – Poem by Maya Angelou There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful. ~Maya Angelou Happy New Year Posts: Romantic Quotes For Him Romantic Quotes For […]
When You Come – Poem by Maya Angelou
When You Come – Poem by Maya Angelou When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, an attic, Gatherings of days too few. Baubles of stolen kisses. Trinkets of borrowed loves. Trunks of secret words, I CRY. ~Maya Angelou Happy New […]
Momma Welfare Roll – Poem by Maya Angelou
Momma Welfare Roll – Poem by Maya Angelou Her arms semaphore fat triangles, Pudgy hands bunched on layered hips Where bones idle under years of fatback And lima beans. Her jowls shiver in accusation Of crimes clichéd by Repetition. Her children, strangers To childhood’s toys, play Best the games of darkened doorways, Rooftop tag, and […]
On The Pulse Of Morning – Poem by Maya Angelou
On The Pulse Of Morning – Poem by Maya Angelou A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust […]
A Brave And Startling Truth – Poem by Maya Angelou
A Brave And Startling Truth – Poem by Maya Angelou We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling truth And when […]
Awaking In New York – Poem by Maya Angelou
Awaking In New York – Poem by Maya Angelou Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city drags itself awake on subway straps; and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded. ~Maya Angelou Happy New Year Posts: […]