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The Lesson

  I keep on dying again.
Veins collapse, opening like the
Small fists of sleeping
Children.
Memory .........
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  Seema Joglekar  (8/17/2009 4:39:00 AM)

It oozes out and starts to pour,
These splendidly worded lines I adore,
It gropes and wrenches the choking from within,
And releases a breath of fresh air, bloodied, warm, I mean.
  Karen Natasha Seerattan  (7/8/2009 10:24:00 AM)

I just want to comment on one thing miss Angelou all your poems teaches me a lesson some way or the other and I love love you and I KNOW I HAVE YOU
  William Rodenberg  (6/21/2009 5:28:00 PM)

I enjoy the concept of self percerverience, however i believe that recollection of the emotionally unstable past serves only as a barrier to a prosperous future.
  Yannis Voultos  (5/16/2009 3:17:00 AM)

Very good lesson, especially the conclusion
  Didier Kahungu  (7/25/2008 9:19:00 AM)

incredible Maya, i wonder how you do it
  Abbey Rigney  (5/30/2008 4:53:00 PM)

Righteous poem! It shows a lot of meaning!
  Allison Dones  (2/26/2008 1:27:00 PM)

I LOVE THIS PEOM ITS GREAT! ! ! ! ! ! !






BALLA 0 BASKETBALL 4 LIFE
  Katie Dean  (2/8/2008 8:08:00 PM)

Maya Angelou is def. gifted........ this poem hits you right in the chest....its powerful
  Ruth Ngungi  (11/21/2007 8:22:00 AM)

Of all Maya's poems i have read so far i find this one most spiritual.
  Ruth Ngungi  (11/21/2007 8:19:00 AM)

I tend to think that anyone who has taken a powerful personal daunting cauese will understand this poem. You feel like giving up, but your life depends on it so much its all you feed on to live....it becomes a cycle, living nad dying, living and dying....the fragility of the human soul over time sometimes makes us want to give up life, but Life itself fights us on..................deep!
 

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