Short Angelou Poems

Short Angelou Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Angelou by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Angelou by length and keyword.


Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE- BEING A RAINBOW

Today I’m thankful for all those people
who stand out in a crowd…
Who, as Maya Angelou says…
try to be a rainbow…in someone else’s cloud.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member INVITE HOPE

A message of hope from Maya Angelou…
I bring to you this day…
She said:
Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space…
So why not invite hope to stay.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Mind Engaged and Caged

Ode to Maya Angelou 

My mind often may be engaged;
When I found out it was caged,
Time devote;
Poems wrote;
I became furious and enraged.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Lover of Universe

M-essage
A-bout
Y-ou
A-s

A-uthor
N-icely
G-uides
E-very
L-over
O-f
U-niverse

Topic: Birthday of poetess Maya Angelou (April 04)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Light of Understanding

M-orning 
A-bolishes 
Y-our 
A-pathy 

A-s 
N-ew 
G-low 
E-mits 
L-ight 
O-f 
U-nderstanding 

Topic: Birthday of Maya Angelou (April 4) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic


Lines of Understanding

M-y
A-crostic
Y-early
A-pplies

A-nnual
N-ote
G-ladly
E-mploying
L-ines
O-f
U-nderstanding

Topic: Birthday of poetess Maya Angelou (April 04) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member EMPATHY AND COURAGE

I believe, as Maya Angelou believed
that we are all blessed with empathy…
We all know how to convey it…
Unfortunately, however, there are some of us
who lack the courage to display it.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

For Maya Angelou

For Dr Maya Angelou


Vanquished by the day one may be,
Beaten down by the barren night.
 
Faltering at times,
at times upright.
 
Still one stands.
One still fights.
 
For though one falls,
One must rise.
Form:

Premium Member HUMANITY AND MAYA ANGELOU

For today’s blessing I turn once again to Maya Angelou
whose words speak to people of all faiths and religions…
from Judaism to Islam to Christianity

May we be blessed not to die
without having done something wonderful for humanity.’
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Comatose

Comatose: inspired by Insomniac by Maya Angelou, for Joann’s Copycat contest

There are some morns when
Sleep conquers,
Heavy and masterful.
And all the tricks
That I groggily try
To shake it from my head
Are futile as raising the dead,
And much less hopeful.
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member LOVE MAYA ANGELOU STYLE

These times when there is so much hatred in the world 
I am grateful for the words of Maya Angelou
which always help me cope:

Love recognizes no barriers.
It jumps hurdles, leaps fences,
penetrates walls to arrive at its destination
full of destination…
full of hope.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Maya Angelou

Maya
Truthful, enthusiastic, prolific, kind
People will never forget how she made us feel
If you do not like something, she said, change it.
An American poet, singer, poetess
She published seven autobiographies
Pouring her pain out to help others.
Helping us to do the same
Angelou
Form: Bio

Premium Member PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION

May we one day be blessed
to enlighten our point of view…
when it comes to prejudice and discrimination
and realize what Maya Angelou knew

How prejudice and discrimination….
once unleashed it is irrepressible….

a burden that confuses the past
threatens the future
and renders the present inaccessible
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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 true love
the only true love is God
and Christ on the cross
bearing the imperfections
so light can shine out from me

Maya and Martin To Their End and More

May be Maya Angelou or Martin Luther King, 
Who with some marvelous story will bring, 
Lifelong friend,
To their end;
To us all, they meant more than anything.

Jim Horn 

That sure has been quick response;
From someone would not absconce;
Always prepared;
Never scared;
On another poem start and pounce. 

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member In Honor of International Women's Day - Maya Angelou

“A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.” - Maya Angelou


The infamous feminist and activist Maya Angelou
She was a powerful force to recon with and to know
Her feminist and civil right beliefs were strongly expressed
As she bravely spoke her mind to try put injustices to rest
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Review Aug 19

Poet ,Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winner who was also a dancer, an actress and a singer.A simple ten liner about those ' long-ago rooms ' we poets love to recall in what ever style we prefer..be it rhymed short verse or open style used here in a succinct list form .Memorable memories materialised.
Form: Prose

The Poets Pluck

THE POETS PLUCK         Maya Angelou

ON THE PULSE OF MORNING
a new dawn will arise, hungry baby cries
STILL I RISE
dry baby's eyes

PASSING TIME 
WHEN YOU COME HOME
off to work I'll tread
INSOMNIAC, half dead, I moan

prayed TO BE TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL
I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
a MOMMA WELFARE ROLL
No medicine for baby, and no baby swings  



2/21/17
Form: Quatrain

Good Morning

Last night
You were my Ray Charles song
My Maya Angelou Poem...
Didn't we experience forever
during that moment
you brought my soul home?

Bob Marley plays on  Pandora
in that long episode
to be continued
my mind was blowed...

I liked it best when we danced slow.
There are some things that will last forever
Like that memory
       
         I will never let it go.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Poetic Flair

Maya Angelou proclaiming
She knows why the caged bird sings
While a raven Says forevermore
Brings to mind Edgar Allan Poe

Sir Walter Raleigh did inspire
with his poem "Like truthless dreams my Joys expire"
Emily Dickenson gave us many wonderful verses
"Apparently with no surprise"  being among the first

For sonnets with poetic flair
None can compare 
To the great William Shakespeare
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.

What do I say

I could remember in school reading maya Angelou does the caged bird sing
That gave me dreams
To believe 
To bring 
My words
My journey
Of peace 
Inside I scream but nobody ever hears
My daughter wants to be a lawyer
But how do I calm all of her fears
I tell her to courageous 
Look life right in its eyes
Live, laugh, and love
But never forget gods light
I guess that what I should say

I Respectfully Decline

To be what you think I should be
Your definition of poetry
I’m sorry 
But I respectfully decline

Write like Shakespeare, Frost or Angelou
Emulate what all other poets do
I’m sorry
But I respectfully decline

Copy, pretend or try to be
Anything other than Kimberly 
I’m sorry
But I respectfully decline

Live my life by what others say
Change any part of me today
I’m sorry
But I respectfully decline
Form: Rhyme

Stark Fiction

I know why the caged bird sings,
and why our phone always rings,
because of you.

I know why the sea is blue,
because it hasn't found anyone new.

I need shelter from the storm.
I wish it was warm.

I know why the sky turns black,
because it's never looked back.

Why do you always sit on the porch,
looking like a clockwork orange.




Dedicated To Maya Angelou.
1928-2014
R.I.P.
Form: Rhyme

Poetry Soup

what is poetry soup?
it is imaginative creative siloquies with a combination of prose, prose , hakiu. 
free verse, ballads &acrostics. combined it produces a wonderful work of art that
soothes the soul ,stretches the imaginationand entices the creative juices. 
It is Maya Angelou. Langston hughes , Elizabet barrett Browning,sister souljah, 
&me 
The proliferation of words exquistely expressed
Poetry Soup
Form: Acrostic

Poetry Soup

what is poetry soup[?
IT is imaginative creative a combination of  prose, haiku, free verse, ballads & 
acrostics.
Combined it produces a wonderful work of art that soothes the soul and 
stretches the imagination and entices the creative juices.
It is Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes,Eliabeth Barett browning sister souljah 
and me!
it is imagagery rhythm and rhyme.
the proliferation of words exquistively  expressed
poetry soup

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