...Is

attracting
lifted senses
acoustically vivid
driven to be admired
yesterday today and tomorrow

We live to create
We live to love
We live to live

The Grand Dr. Maya Angelou

Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod 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?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
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Here is a link to her reciting this poem. An extravagant talent.

Live

Your life holds endless possibilities.
Be bold enough to unchain those burdens that lock you down.
Catapult your passion with limitless speed.

We live to create
We live to love
We live to live

Don't lose sight of who you are
she says
I never do
I say

We live to create
We live to love
We live to live

"Too many Black women can say that they are mothers but
can't say that they wives"- Common-

Resolve?

one question
one question
three answers
because he's afraid
he wonders if he can offer
three answers
can he shape we
intellects under the sun rays
should I make he
telepathic
eyes reading braille through follicles
one question
can he feel me
resolution close
instructions read in German, Turkish, Dutch
playing hopscotch with
jigsaw pieces
assembly required
hes says
but they didn't tell me
i needed an interpreter
master of disguise
hiding emotions
feeling illiterate because his face is illegible
one question
one question
answer

We live to create
We live to love
We live to live

Inhail luhve

We live to create
We live to love
We live to live

Process

As you breathe you find strength
                                         strength to fight off the anger
                                         strength to fight off the tears
             breathing out is the problem
             letting go of what you heard
            letting go of what could be 
            forseeing the problems that could arrive

We live to create
We live to love
We live to live