Maya Angelou
1928-2014 / Female / American
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I know why the caged bird sings
A free bird leaps on the back
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Of the wind and floats downstream
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Till the current ends and dips h
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Old Folks laugh
They have spent their
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content of simpering,
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holding their lips this
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and that way, winding
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th
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The Health-Food Diner
No sprouted wheat and soya shoots
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And Brussels in a cake,
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Carrot straw and spinach raw,
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(Today
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Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
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With your bitter, twisted lies,
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You may trod me in the very dir
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Phenomenal Woman
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
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I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
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B
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Refusal
Beloved,
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In what other lives or lands
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Have I known your lips
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Your Hands
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Your Laughter brave
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Alone
Lying, thinking
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Last night
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How to find my soul a home
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Where water is not thirsty
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And bread l
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Touched by An Angel
We, unaccustomed to courage
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exiles from delight
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live coiled in shells of loneliness
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until love
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Woman Work
I've got the children to tend
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The clothes to mend
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The floor to mop
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The food to shop
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Then the
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Remembrance
Your hands easy
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weight, teasing the bees
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hived in my hair, your smile at the
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slope of my cheek
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