Maya Angelou

(4 April 1928 - 28 May 2014)

poet Maya Angelou
#3 on top 500 poets

Comments about Maya Angelou

  • p.a. noushad p.a. noushad (3/23/2015 2:25:00 AM)

    hello Maya, your verses inspire me.

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  • p.a. noushad p.a. noushad (3/18/2015 8:44:00 PM)

    maya angelou, some of your poems touch me deeply.

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  • Snehith Challa (3/15/2015 1:06:00 PM)

    Wonderful

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  • Snehith Challa (3/15/2015 1:06:00 PM)

    Wonderful !!

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  • Edgar Stevens Edgar Stevens (3/7/2015 8:15:00 AM)

    She is a great poet for sure.

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  • Aysegul Avcu (2/25/2015 9:50:00 AM)

    Exellent

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  • Matthew Wedzerai (2/19/2015 9:29:00 AM)

    She used words to change lives, mine one. Great stuff.

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  • Navneet Singh (2/7/2015 6:03:00 PM)

    Please can you help me to make a poem on 10 words pleasee..... Astronmy, rotation, revolution, geocentric, heliocentric, parallax, orbit, galaxy, asteriod, and collision please can you help me

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  • Karan Pratap Singh Karan Pratap Singh (1/10/2015 3:33:00 PM)

    Indeed a great poet. I read her phnenomenal woman. It's my all time fav.

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  • Grace Moneymaker (12/23/2014 6:07:00 PM)

    She was a great poet. Although I haven't read much of her poetry, I'd say 'Phenomenal Woman' is my all-time favorite. Any criticism is just nonsense.

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Best Poem of Maya Angelou

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you? ...

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Woman Work

I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press

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