Maya Angelou – One Book a Week

When Great Trees Fall By Maya Angelou

When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety.

She’ll cry and wonder what went wrong * Poor Girl * Maya Angelou

You’ve got another love and I know it Someone who adores you just like me Hanging on your words like they were gold Thinking that she understands your soul Poor Girl just like me. You’re breaking another heart and I know it And there’s nothing I can do If I try to tell her whatContinue reading “She’ll cry and wonder what went wrong * Poor Girl * Maya Angelou”

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, Happy 4th of July 2017!

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room.

On the Pulse of Morning – Maya Angelou

A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of Their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully,Continue reading “On the Pulse of Morning – Maya Angelou”

Caged Bird – Poem by Maya Angelou

The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and hisContinue reading “Caged Bird – Poem by Maya Angelou”