Maya Angelou (Very Influential Poet) "In and Out of Time"

MAYA ANGELOU

"The sun has come.

The mist has gone.

We see in the distance...

our long way home.

I was always yours to have.

You were always mine.

We have loved each other in and out of time.

When the first stone looked up at the blazing sun

and the first tree struggled up from the forest floor

I had always loved you more."

Great Looking Site

Words that are from the heart leave a lasting impression. 
Good is the enemy of Excellence- PD
Mr. B

Nikki Giovanni (Nikka-Rosa)

Nikki-Rosa

Childhood rememberances are
always a drag if you're Black
you always remember things like
living in Woodlawn with no inside toilet
and if you become famous or something

They never talk about how happy
you were to have your mother
all to yourself and how good the
water felt when you got your bath
from one of those

Big tubs that folk in chicago barbeque
in and somehow when you talk
about home
it never gets across how much you
understood their feelings as the
whole family attended meetings

About Hollydale and even though you
remember your biographers never
understand your father's pain as he
sells his stock and another
dream goes

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Stripped (by DeMarquise Washington)

Stripped from the truth
Introduced to the falsehood
Immune to the lies
Now its my duty to return to my original grounds