Poems Inspired by Maya Angelou
#MayaAngelou
Poems inspired by the American poet, storyteller, activist and autobiographer Maya Angelou. Here you'll find poetry using the style or themes found in the work of Maya Angelou. Along with poems about Angelou herself, including praise, criticism and memorials.
wallyroo92
Bumped 26th Jun 2024 4:48am
23rd Aug 2019 2:19pm
23rd Aug 2019 2:19pm
Grapes
As I coast down the road,
The temperature says it's 102 degrees outside,
Blasting my music and the A.C.,
It's a nice drive.
But then I notice the fields,
They're out there picking grapes,
In the blistering heat.
I look in the mirror,
At my brown face,
Thinking I was given the opportunity
to get an education,
to find a comfortable life,
Yet those migrant workers
Out there earning a living
Must have dreams and aspirations of their own,
To give their daughters and sons a chance.
And...
The temperature says it's 102 degrees outside,
Blasting my music and the A.C.,
It's a nice drive.
But then I notice the fields,
They're out there picking grapes,
In the blistering heat.
I look in the mirror,
At my brown face,
Thinking I was given the opportunity
to get an education,
to find a comfortable life,
Yet those migrant workers
Out there earning a living
Must have dreams and aspirations of their own,
To give their daughters and sons a chance.
And...
#LifeStruggles
#MayaAngelou
725 reads
12 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
29th Dec 2023 8:51am
29th Dec 2023 8:51am
Straight Talk Live (Me, Myself, And I)
Intellect have always been a friend, a sorceress of my mind
I would say I am a pretty great judgment of character and an extraordinaire when it cums to my soft sublime
Neven been on the scavenge to hunt, I am the beautiful sacred curiosity of the tease
I can make the tenderest love to your mind, poetically whisper in your ear, submerging it intellectually until you become the mingled words I taste on the tip of my tongue as my heart shall appease
Blend your...
I would say I am a pretty great judgment of character and an extraordinaire when it cums to my soft sublime
Neven been on the scavenge to hunt, I am the beautiful sacred curiosity of the tease
I can make the tenderest love to your mind, poetically whisper in your ear, submerging it intellectually until you become the mingled words I taste on the tip of my tongue as my heart shall appease
Blend your...
#sun
#lover
#WritingPoetry
#philosophical
#MayaAngelou
365 reads
10 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
11th May 2023 2:06am
11th May 2023 2:06am
Sacred Whispers To Archangel Michael... (An Earth Angel)
Green pasture as thy comfort the French Creole Angel’s scepter of me
As you can feel, touch, see
And will come to believe
And that’s just a grand fact
My halo, my mystique of my human spirit, Heaven’s compassion given of this Earth Angel laying, or resting on my back
Welcome to the comfort of my wings
As an Earthbound Angel passionately whispers when she sings
Selah
As you can feel, touch, see
And will come to believe
And that’s just a grand fact
My halo, my mystique of my human spirit, Heaven’s compassion given of this Earth Angel laying, or resting on my back
Welcome to the comfort of my wings
As an Earthbound Angel passionately whispers when she sings
Selah
#sun
#angels
#spiritual
#philosophical
#MayaAngelou
555 reads
6 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
16th Jan 2023 10:44pm
16th Jan 2023 10:44pm
Me...
Labored breaths of just you and I
Allow me to absorb you
The soft touches of reflexology’s tantalizations branding his skin
Oh, my love, let the curl of my tongue’s soothing bliss
Journey over the soles of his feet
Taking pleasure between the spaces of his toes
Aimlessly wandering up his inner thighs
Tenderly arousing all his sensitive peaks
His erroneous zone weakening for the overtaking
Let me blindfold you, and watch you get stimulated, by anticipation, by sight unseen
Mm... oh yes, those coaxing...
Allow me to absorb you
The soft touches of reflexology’s tantalizations branding his skin
Oh, my love, let the curl of my tongue’s soothing bliss
Journey over the soles of his feet
Taking pleasure between the spaces of his toes
Aimlessly wandering up his inner thighs
Tenderly arousing all his sensitive peaks
His erroneous zone weakening for the overtaking
Let me blindfold you, and watch you get stimulated, by anticipation, by sight unseen
Mm... oh yes, those coaxing...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
#passion
#MayaAngelou
#LangstonHughes
645 reads
9 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
15th Jan 2023 8:27pm
15th Jan 2023 8:27pm
By Any Means Necessary (Happy Birthday Martin Luther King, Jr.)
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mama, I know why the caged bird really sings
When the mind as an offering hears sovereignty echoed from the mountains let it ring
From the cradle of birth is to give authority to our mental dreams
Our deferred aspirations we seek to the highest of our esteem
How can I learn to fly when my heart cannot even walk
Animosity, resentment is always found in wagging tongues who doesn’t know how to intellectually talk...
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mama, I know why the caged bird really sings
When the mind as an offering hears sovereignty echoed from the mountains let it ring
From the cradle of birth is to give authority to our mental dreams
Our deferred aspirations we seek to the highest of our esteem
How can I learn to fly when my heart cannot even walk
Animosity, resentment is always found in wagging tongues who doesn’t know how to intellectually talk...
#freedom
#determination
#MayaAngelou
#birthday
#philosophical
883 reads
17 Comments
PoetsRevenge
Poem Published
3rd Jun 2022 6:20am
3rd Jun 2022 6:20am
Perspectives in Freedom
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend,
it ceases to exist."
- Salman Rushdie
"Speak, or be unheard,
open your mind or be confined.
You have so much to say
don't let self doubt take it away.
Open minds and hearts are listening
and they can affirm what is humanity
expressing and being itself in you
opinions aren't right or wrong, just unique;
it is bravery in action to shout in your
true voice as a lion would roar
and a fearless voice is a blessing
even in the...
it ceases to exist."
- Salman Rushdie
"Speak, or be unheard,
open your mind or be confined.
You have so much to say
don't let self doubt take it away.
Open minds and hearts are listening
and they can affirm what is humanity
expressing and being itself in you
opinions aren't right or wrong, just unique;
it is bravery in action to shout in your
true voice as a lion would roar
and a fearless voice is a blessing
even in the...
#freedom
#MaryOliver
#MayaAngelou
#NaPoWriMo2022
#HenryDavidThoreau
737 reads
6 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
4th Feb 2022 5:42pm
4th Feb 2022 5:42pm
Mama I Know Why The Caged Bird Really Sings
Mama I know why the caged bird really sings
When the mind as an offering hears sovereignty echoed from the mountains let it ring
From the cradle of birth is to give authority to our mental dreams
Our deferred aspirations we seek to the highest of our esteem
How can I learn to fly when my heart cannot even walk
Animosity, resentment is always found in wagging tongues who doesn’t know how to intellectually talk
Defacing its own beautiful temple forbidding to asunder such venomously stalk
Flapping...
When the mind as an offering hears sovereignty echoed from the mountains let it ring
From the cradle of birth is to give authority to our mental dreams
Our deferred aspirations we seek to the highest of our esteem
How can I learn to fly when my heart cannot even walk
Animosity, resentment is always found in wagging tongues who doesn’t know how to intellectually talk
Defacing its own beautiful temple forbidding to asunder such venomously stalk
Flapping...
#LifeAsAWriter
#TruthOfLife
#philosophical
#culture
#MayaAngelou
463 reads
11 Comments
PoetsRevenge
Poem Published
23rd Jun 2020 4:52am
23rd Jun 2020 4:52am
Dreams That Matter
Love costs all we are and will ever be,,
yet it is only love which sets us free'
-Maya Angelou
I still got faith in some new day,
Lawd, don't take my hopes away.
If rings and curls and pink on little girls
make fierce boys scare them into whirls,
let us stay all laughing, all the same,
we and they are all the same.
Us, we're no better than the next big thing;
a song that's all the same, we sing.
Unsilenced, our exuberant song
of hope that tomorrow will be as bright
as today, or...
yet it is only love which sets us free'
-Maya Angelou
I still got faith in some new day,
Lawd, don't take my hopes away.
If rings and curls and pink on little girls
make fierce boys scare them into whirls,
let us stay all laughing, all the same,
we and they are all the same.
Us, we're no better than the next big thing;
a song that's all the same, we sing.
Unsilenced, our exuberant song
of hope that tomorrow will be as bright
as today, or...
#hope
#children
#dreams
#racism
#MayaAngelou
580 reads
14 Comments
PoetsRevenge
Poem Published
19th Jun 2020 3:19am
19th Jun 2020 3:19am
That Place
History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived,
but if faced with courage need not be lived again.”
― Maya Angelou
I took a giant step backwards today
into my past, I thought I had left it behind.
I remembered the sting, the smart of rejection,
of hatred, of shame;
I heard it calling my name
in my dead ascendants voice,
calling from far away,
calling me back to pain
of dying in agony.
The pain I hid from,
never wanted to feel again,
I was brought...
but if faced with courage need not be lived again.”
― Maya Angelou
I took a giant step backwards today
into my past, I thought I had left it behind.
I remembered the sting, the smart of rejection,
of hatred, of shame;
I heard it calling my name
in my dead ascendants voice,
calling from far away,
calling me back to pain
of dying in agony.
The pain I hid from,
never wanted to feel again,
I was brought...
#rejection
#memories
#racism
#hurt
#MayaAngelou
656 reads
4 Comments
Laluma
Poem Published
11th Apr 2020 5:42pm
11th Apr 2020 5:42pm
Demand me nothing. What you know, you know.
This is not because of a pandemic that discrimination is rearing its ugly head again
It was there all along under the surface in subtle and explicit ways
The opportune time and convenience is for the discriminator to hide behind an illness
Europeans and their descendants who are inhabitants of their pale skin the world over
Always find ways to elevate their supremacy above all others
Fascist feelings and attitudes married with other forms of racist attitudes
Never seem to be evicted and there is always a home for this vagabond
In the heart of those with deep...
It was there all along under the surface in subtle and explicit ways
The opportune time and convenience is for the discriminator to hide behind an illness
Europeans and their descendants who are inhabitants of their pale skin the world over
Always find ways to elevate their supremacy above all others
Fascist feelings and attitudes married with other forms of racist attitudes
Never seem to be evicted and there is always a home for this vagabond
In the heart of those with deep...
#PowerOfWords
#freedom
#responsibility
#MayaAngelou
#LangstonHughes
491 reads
whiteboy13014
Lostsoul777
Lostsoul777
Poem Published
28th Apr 2019 00:33am
28th Apr 2019 00:33am
REVISIONIST
#religion
#redemption
#MayaAngelou
493 reads
0 Comments
Black-kwacha
Poem Published
26th Feb 2019 10:49pm
26th Feb 2019 10:49pm
#AFRICA
She feeds nations but fails to breast feed her own
she is the epitome of wealth,my Africa
But they will not let her harvest her own
She has endowed her children with knowledge
Ask about the brain drain
Yes,she is beautiful,beauty packed and sold
beauty that does not at all benefit her
They know how to crawl in
they called it 'development loans'
sunk her in so deep in debt she can barely float
Africa,the land that once thrived on authenticity
The land that the Creator blessed with so much melanin
Her children now scrap it...
she is the epitome of wealth,my Africa
But they will not let her harvest her own
She has endowed her children with knowledge
Ask about the brain drain
Yes,she is beautiful,beauty packed and sold
beauty that does not at all benefit her
They know how to crawl in
they called it 'development loans'
sunk her in so deep in debt she can barely float
Africa,the land that once thrived on authenticity
The land that the Creator blessed with so much melanin
Her children now scrap it...
#Africa
#MayaAngelou
#oppression #inequality
#oppression #inequality
607 reads
5 Comments
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