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The term "maya angelou" has been searched for 10245 times on the American Poems site since March 4th, 2004.
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1. Maya - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 7111 times on American Poems.
Through an ascending emptiness of night,
Leaving the flesh and complacent mind
Together in their suffciency behind,
The soul of man went up to a far height;
And where those others would have had no sight
Or sense of else than terror for the... (Read full poem)
2. Are You the New person, drawn toward Me? - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 6551 times on American Poems.
ARE you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with, take warning—I am surely far different from what you suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
Do you think the... (Read full poem)
3. Poem For Maya - written by Carolyn Forché
From The Country Between Us.
Published in 1981.
Read 1961 times on American Poems.
Dipping our bread in oil tins
we talked of morning peeling
open our rooms to a moment
of almonds, olives and wind
when we did not yet know what we were.
The days in Mallorca were alike:
footprints down goat-paths
from the beds we had... (Read full poem)
4. Landing - written by Eleanor Wilner
From Maya.
Published in 1979.
Read 779 times on American Poems.
It was a pure white cloud that hung there
in the blue, or a jellyfish on a waveless
sea, suspended high above us; we were
the creatures in the weeds below.
It seemed so effortless in its suspense,
perfectly out of time and out of place
like the... (Read full poem)
5. September On Jessore Road - written by Allen Ginsberg
From The Fall of America.
Published in 1971.
Read 6605 times on American Poems.
Millions of babies watching the skies
Bellies swollen, with big round eyes
On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts
Noplace to shit but sand channel ruts
Millions of fathers in rain
Millions of mothers in pain
Millions of brothers in woe
Millions of... (Read full poem)
6. Studio Composition - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From There is a Dead Man Living in my Kitchen.
Published in 2004.
Read 907 times on American Poems.
Cup of Words
Crystal sphere sitting
Before child like statue
Words of Lennon mixed
In a clay Klee fish bowl
Like a dog in a manger
Caravan of gypsies
Traveling from city to city
Verse of reconciliation a
Prophet’s candle burning
Under... (Read full poem)
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