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Dr. Maya Angelou's Poetry, by title

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  • Give me your hand
    Make room for me
    12 lines, 8 comments
  • Lying, thinking
    Last night
    37 lines, 8 comments
  • I note the obvious differences
    in the human family.
    40 lines, 4 comments
  • The free bird leaps
    on the back of the wind
    41 lines, 44 comments
  • There are some nights when
    sleep plays coy,
    8 lines, 6 comments
  • When I was young, I used to
    Watch behind the curtains
    39 lines, 9 comments
  • The night has been long,
    The wound has been deep,
    52 lines, 6 comments
  • Her arms semaphore fat triangles,
    Pudgy hands bunched on layered hips
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • They have spent their
    content of simpering,
    24 lines, 5 comments
  • A Rock, A River, A Tree
    Hosts to species long since departed,
    105 lines, 1 comment
  • Your skin like dawn
    Mine like musk
    6 lines, 2 comments
  • Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
    I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
    60 lines, 51 comments
  • Preacher, don't send me
    when I die
    34 lines
  • Beloved,
    In what other lives or lands
    16 lines
  • Your hands easy
    weight, teasing the bees
    15 lines
  • Petulant priests, greedy
    centurions, and one million
    22 lines, 1 comment
  • You may write me down in history
    With your bitter, twisted lies,
    43 lines, 13 comments
  • No sprouted wheat and soya shoots
    And Brussels in a cake,
    30 lines
  • I keep on dying again.
    Veins collapse, opening like the
    13 lines, 4 comments
  • A Rock, A River, A Tree
    Hosts to species long since departed,
    104 lines
  • We, unaccustomed to courage
    exiles from delight
    22 lines, 1 comment
  • Some clichty folks
    don't know the facts,
    50 lines, 4 comments
  • When you come to me, unbidden,
    Beckoning me
    10 lines, 3 comments
  • I've got the children to tend
    The clothes to mend
    33 lines, 9 comments
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