"You want poems, I got #@#!@# poems."
Posted on 05/28/2014 6:37:40 AM PDT by alancarp
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Award-winning author, renowned poet and civil rights activist Dr. Maya Angelou has died. She was 86.
Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines confirmed Angelou was found by her caretaker on Wednesday morning.
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I started college as an English major in Poetry.
Her poem for Clinton’s Inauguration spawned an entire generation of hideous pointless prose that would make even Jon Anderson say “WTF was that all about?”. That’s not poetry. That’s a spelling test.
Trayvon
by Maya Angeloo
I sing of thee Trayvon
Lamented burnt umber crayon
Shoud of stayed at home
and got your lay-on
But you heard the siren song of wet grass
and headed for Seven Elevon.
Zimmerman the triggerman
Big game hunter lay in wait
White hispanic in a panic
Rubberheaded, held your fate.
By punching him, you tried to reason
You cant of known - was black-boy season
Stand your ground, ground and pound,
Frito Bandito shot you down.
while i was not a fan of her works, i have to say that she is the writer of my all-time favorite cookbook... the recipes are spectacular, and the stories that go along with them are transparently Maya Angelou... she comes across as sharp, wicked and tangy... i especially liked the story that went with her banana pudding recipe... i received the book as a Christmas gift several years ago... it is called, "Alleluia! The Welcome Table"
What if they hate her work because they think it sucks? I don’t “hate” her work, I just think it’s not very good, and not much better than almost anyone posting on this site could write if they spent 20 minutes trying.
” You wouldn’t have gotten that impression if you read anything by her.”
Hold on there! Didn’t she write,
“There once was a man from Nantucket...”
now that is hysterical! and quite good!
I hope they get the South African guy to sign at her funeral.
As evidence, I would direct you to Post #41 on this thread, which is far, FAR better than anything Angelou ever penned.
Dead may have spent more than 20 minutes writing it (or not), but it was time very well spent!
Never heard of her. Do we get another day off from work?
Then I don’t care!
"Good Morning!"
"You want poems, I got #@#!@# poems."
I sense a whole slew of new poetry from this...
Or even, perhaps... HAIKU!!!
Have at it, folks...
May they both rest in peace
Gone from us Maya, we all haz a sad
You were so old with poems so bad
You wrote what you felt which sadly was poo
We miss you already oh my Angelou.
I nominate you for FR Poet Laureate. Hey, they above is better than anything Maya ever published.
Someone really needs to put this "tribute" on one of the big social media sites to see it goes viral. ;-)
“...Lamented burnt umber crayon...”
I’m SO done after that one!!! ROLFMAO....!
Bravo! Well done!!!
Jimmy Crack Corn and I don’t care
Mayo angelo crooked and I don’t care
Neither does Grumpy cat
Because she was just a crazy old bat
I had a course in modern poetry back in the mid 80s.
We read one poem by her because it was in the book. It was mediocre at best. Back then the American poets you wanted to read were Frost, Whitman, Eliot, Berryman, Plath, Carver, Tess Gallagher, Roethke., Sexton.
We had to memorize passages of Frost in High School, along with Poe. In college it was Eliot and Pound.
The sad fact is no one reads poetry anymore, or is taught it. Therefore second and third rate stuff that would never have been published 100 or 50 years ago can be published and canonized today.
She remains an inspiration.
...even though she doesn't need ventilation.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/04/05/maya_angelou_a_river_a_glock_a_tree
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