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Eulogy For Marguerite

Maya met her Socrates public examination of her life and writing down her hypotheses - female blackness a caged bird's life singing often, singing she arrived from uncivil lessons on civil rights to stand-up straight and thrive in beauty - with rhythm besides Marguerite Johnson is dead but Angelou will arise to see life wondrous instead with dark-brown soulful eyes mourn not that her life is passed celebrate that it was expressed © goodguysoul 2014-05-28 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/still-i-rise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOqo50LSZ0

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Date: 5/30/2014 7:52:00 PM
Good work! I thought the last 2 lines were a great punch and ending. Well put and worded, a good find as I learn this site.
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