Maya Angelou

Refusal – Poem by Maya Angelou Beloved,In what other lives or landsHave I known your lipsYour HandsYour Laughter braveIrreverent.Those sweet excesses thatI do adore.What surety […]

A Conceit – Poem by Maya Angelou Give me your hand Make room for meto lead and followyoubeyond this rage of poetry. Let others havethe […]

The Lesson – Poem by Maya Angelou I keep on dying again.Veins collapse, opening like theSmall fists of sleepingChildren.Memory of old tombs,Rotting flesh and worms […]

Passing Time – Poem by Maya Angelou Your skin like dawnMine like musk One paints the beginningof a certain end. The other, the end of […]

They Went Home – Poem by Maya Angelou They went home and told their wives,that never once in all their lives,had they known a girl […]

Million Man March Poem – Poem by Maya Angelou The night has been long,The wound has been deep,The pit has been dark,And the walls have […]

The Detached – Poem by Maya Angelou We die,Welcoming Bluebeards to our darkening closets,Stranglers to our outstretched necks,Stranglers, who neither care norcare to know thatDEATH […]