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Angelou Poems - Poems about Angelou

Angelou Poems - Examples of all types of poems about angelou to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for angelou.
Premium Member Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
...Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories - Daniel Henry Rodgers Beneath stardust's scattered gleam, Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time. ......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, freedom, girl, history, literature,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Lonesome
... “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” —Maya Angelou Lonesomeness dreads the twinkling afore sleep falls, Soft and sou......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, god, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Wabi Sabi
... Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. ~Maya Angelou You are perfect in all of your imperfections. What imperfections? I ask. Exactly! He responds. it was not ......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, god, identity, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moment
...The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom- Maya Angelou Reali......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, angst, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Speaking
...What irony that im going deeper in a dungeon to find Kaos in Fate But It’s the opposite of what im trying to do in my real life, it’s great I love things that work out like that My life is all the......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gnarled
..."People will forget what you said, forget what you did, but will never forget how you made them feel." ~ Maya Angelo......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thankful For Accurate History and Maya Angelou
...May we be blessed to acknowledge all the wonders in our life that have, for us, thus far accrued… and to begin each day with a word of thanks… and thoughts of gratitude. Today I’m thankful for ......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Human -
... "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud" - Maya Angelou - ......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, birth, death, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poems and Rocks
...POEMS AND ROCKS I believe it should be our mission while on the Earth… to do our part to improve and to advance her…. to leave a better world than the one we found… to add to her beauty…to enha......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member W T F Is Poetry
...What the hell is poetry? Is it just words that sound pretty? Or is there something deeper here? A way to move beyond our fear? The beauty of a well-crafted line Can induce us to fe......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, analogy, appreciation, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Because I Live
...Quote by Maya Angelou: "I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it." Because I Live I can be changed by the storms I face, But I refuse to let them win the race,......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, africa, appreciation, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For Hebert
...I want to be known by one name Like Dessalines, Christophe and Pétion Like Pelé, Ali or a Great Champion Like Edison, Jefferson and Washington. I want to be known by just a name By my pretty a......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, freedom, imagination, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme
Still Rising
...(Response to And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou) Refusing to ever descend after My mother, grandmother, great grandmother Have all endured broken wings To ensure that I would one day be able t......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, black african american, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No One Like Her
...“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou Her smile is like the......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, appreciation, blessing, mom, mother,
Form: Free verse
Open the Floodgates
...OPEN THE FLOODGATES For weeks I’d suffered writer’s block, Devoid of inspiration. I couldn’t think of what to write. I was close to desperation. Rhymezone wouldn’t accept m......Read the rest...
Categories: angelou, inspiration, muse,
Form: Rhyme

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