Poems on Maya Angelou Published by Members Recently Online

Fox News turns
clock irrelevant
as night and day  
meld into fear.
If no surprises from the  
current King’s reign  
nor no left-leaning bastion unseated,  
certainly then we should expect  
to see more poor immigrants,  
to read faces of rapists
in those of the desperate.
Why must they be so  
Brown?  
What could they be after?
My comfortable home  
shutters in around me.
The land upon which it sits  
moans in ancient tongues
of those long before.  
Why do Brown people still ...

Fox News turns
clock irrelevant
as night and day  
meld into fear.
If no surprises from the  
current King’s reign  
nor no left-leaning bastion unseated,  
certainly then we should expect  
to see more poor immigrants,  
to read faces of rapists
in those of the desperate.
Why must they be so  
Brown?  
What could they be after?
My comfortable home  
shutters in around me.
The land upon which it sits  
moans in ancient tongues
of those long before.  
Why do Brown people still ...