Maya Angelou
Love, Memory, and Kinship
Love, touch, remembrance, aging, family feeling, passing time, and intimate address.
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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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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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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Passing Time
Your skin like dawn
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Mine like musk
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One paints the beginning
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of a certain end.
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The other, the
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When You Come
When you come to me, unbidden,
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Beckoning me
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To long-ago rooms,
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Where memories lie.
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Offering
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Men
When I was young, I used to
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Watch behind the curtains
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As men walked up and down the street. Wino
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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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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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