Your skin like dawn
Mine like muskOne paints the beginning
of a certain end.The other, the end of a
sure beginning.
Mine like muskOne paints the beginning
of a certain end.The other, the end of a
sure beginning.
Passing Time
About the poet
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. She grew up in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. She was an author, poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and c…
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Still I Rise
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,
Alone
Lying, thinkingLast night
On the Pulse of Morning
A Rock, A River, A TreeHosts to species long since departed,
I know why the caged bird sings
A free bird leaps on the backOf the wind and floats downstream
Old Folks laugh
They have spent theircontent of simpering,
