Best Maya Poems
Below are the all-time best Maya poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of maya poems written by PoetrySoup members
Maya Angelou
Doctor Maya Angelou the writer
Maya Angelou the actor
Maya...
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Categories:
maya, death, memory,
Form:
Free verse
For Maya Angelou: Like A Cherished EffigyI hold it up again today; the world,
Pregnant with magical dimples
Of a child's reckless abandon,
And look at the face,
Then I look at the deep cut
And...
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Categories:
maya, bereavement, death, heartbroken, memorial,
Form:
Epitaph
I am the GrinchI am the Grinch
I am I am, you know that I am
The Grinch of Grinch's and so
Don’t call me Sam
For Sam I not am
I am...
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Categories:
maya, children, christmas, life, love,
Form:
Classicism
Time
“Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk
One paints the beginning
of a certain end.
The other, the end of a
sure beginning.”
Passing Time: Poem by Maya Angelou
Harkening all the...
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Categories:
maya, time, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Mayan Warrior PrincessThe Mayan Warrior Princess
In eerie recurring dreams, like things seen dimly before dawn,
blurred memories of a temple pyramid resurface from an era long gone.
My...
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Categories:
maya, birth, death, life, repetition,
Form:
Rhyme
A Woman's Self WorthA Woman's Self-Worth, is highest among all, for it was a woman, God created, in thy divine holy image. Friendships, relationships, and holy matrimony,...
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Categories:
maya, christian, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
To Dance With Mary JaneI never got to dance with Mary Jane
although I heard she sure knows how to swing!
She has a twin, and he is masculine;
he doesn’t have...
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Categories:
maya, social,
Form:
Blank verse
When the World Grew Wings - FULLThere once came a day
when the world took flight
('twas only a handful
who gaped at the sight)
For when she spread her wings
so few could believe;
and fewer...
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Categories:
maya, allegory, allusion, beautiful, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
There is NO GODAs I wake
Another day of nothing
Grey skies and daily rituals
A mugging here and there
Smog surrounds me, it eats me inside
Insects devour, life drains, ebbs, flows...
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Categories:
maya, angel, beautiful, inspirational, introspection,
Form:
Light Verse
How ever,I riseIn your mind you conclude that
'this one is a dried bone'.
And you look at me as if am alone,
But i have got back bone...
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Categories:
maya, satire, future, prejudice,
Form:
Rhyme
We are stuff as dreams are made onA bird in hand is worth two in the woods
Teaches us to take care not to be greedy
In the air, quite very easy to build...
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Categories:
maya, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Sonnet
Agape - 1
"...one can never leave home... one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes.....
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Categories:
maya, blessing, god, inspirational, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
They Wouldn't Let Me Be White
They wouldn’t let me be White
Oh I wanted to be
Dreams of that Pulitzer haunted me
They said, Sir, you have ten minutes to...
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Categories:
maya, allegory, anxiety, black african
Form:
Quatrain
I Continue to RiseMAYA ANGELOU INSPIRED ME WITH THE POEM STILL I RISE
I've been judged by the color of my skin
Treated like i'm a nothing,a nobody
Called by many...
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Categories:
maya, black african american, sympathy,
Form:
I do not know?
BELOVED POETSThese are a few poets I love and greatly adore
Just a short list, there are so many more
Wordsworth writes praising beautiful nature
You can't find many...
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Categories:
maya, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
EVER SO GENTLY
Like snowflakes on my eyelashes
Like the gentle wind that blows
Like the rustle of leaves on trees
and birds chirping in the eaves
You come each...
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Categories:
maya, light,
Form:
Free verse
We have moved to The MountainsWe have moved to higher Grounds.
The ridge enclave in mist and cold
Sight is poor as in jackets we fold
Peering below at the stagnant pools
-Covering to...
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Categories:
maya, change, imagination, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
BEING HUMANBEING HUMAN
Benevolent but bedeviled by his demons
Eternally yearning for salvation yet
Intrinsically entangled in a web of self-delusion
Neither able to adopt the earth nor earn the...
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Categories:
maya, humanity,
Form:
Acrostic
If I Were a WordIf I were a word,
I'd be on the point of Sharon's pen...
If I were a poem,
The young one would have penned me...
If I needed to...
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Categories:
maya, angst, introspection, life, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Who Me? Long.Winded2 ?About what and where should I start?
What I hear comes from my heart.
Sometimes, he's a lover you see.
Sometimes, an uncle who jokes with me.
Albert E.
The...
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Categories:
maya, friendship
Form:
I do not know?
DeityDeity
Definition: a God, God like, Goddess, or a holy person
I am a deity
When it comes to poetry
So, please think carefully before you speak to me
Like,...
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Categories:
maya, black african american, imagination,
Form:
I do not know?
A little about faith healing
As along our long life journey we sail
We all do encounter belied expectations
Feeling of deep hurt results from betrayal
Our shrivelled heart writhing in...
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Categories:
maya, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
The beats of MiseryPray, I await for when you would hold my hand in yours
I await for when I would feel the warmth of it
And just know
That somehow,...
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Categories:
maya, faith, longing, love, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Free will vs destiny
Free will whose
An egoic ruse
Please excuse
Offered clues
The mind body enigma
An outer form we call jiva
Inner layer soul or Atma
All within God or Paramatma
This preamble...
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Categories:
maya, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
The matter of MATTER, Nama-Rupa of SANSKRITI
The Greek origins of our word for "matter," is the same for "measure" and MEASURING, as well as a few other terms that carry surprises.
First,...
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Categories:
maya, education, hindi, me, perspective,
Form:
Prose