Maya Angelou dead at 86

http://myfox8.com/2014/05/28/maya-angelou-dead-at-86/ ^

[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.

[crazycatlady]

Finally a post from somebody who actually read her work.

[latina4dubya]

Someone who was called a poet. You wouldn’t have gotten that impression if you read anything by her.

i just looked up some of her works, and read a few... the works seem like poetry to me... i am just wondering why you think that? i do not like the topics or the points of view of every poet--i am big Robert Frost and Walt Whitman fan myself--but i could not say that someone's works are not poetry... i have a cousin who is a published poet out of New Mexico... some of his works i can relate to... some i just do not...

i remember seeing Maya Angelou many years ago on Oprah's show... i was at my momma's house and she watched Oprah on occasion... i remember walking out--i just did not care to listen to them talk... i am not a Maya Angelou fan... she stood on the opposite side on what is important to me... but i guess i can say that she was a poet with her point of view... now why it was that she was and will continue to be so celebrated, i do not know... that i do not get...

one thing i will say, she lived a colorful life... as did Louis L'Amour--who is a favorite writer of mine...

[mc5cents]

Tyrone Greene: [angrily intense, directly into camera]
Images by Tyrone Greene ...
Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking - Do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Slip in his window,
Break his neck!
Then his house
I start to wreck!
Got no reason —
What the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L ...
My land - lord ...
Def!

[crazycatlady]

Thank you.

[NFHale]

Yeah, I remember that one...

Lousy beatnik poetry for a lousy serial lecher president.

All that was missing was the finger-snapping and tom-tom pounding coffee house atmosphere...

THIS One was much better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qae03boj7lU
“Woman.... WHooooooaaa man...”

[EQAndyBuzz]

RIP. Your work had an impact on an entire nation.

And it will take years for us to recover from that.

[latina4dubya]

i am with you on that... see my post—142...

[crazycatlady]

Good post.

[latina4dubya]

She was obviously angry, maybe she had a right to be. Surely, she thought she did.

when she was eight-years old, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend... her uncles killed him...

[Mr Rogers]

She could rhyme. Look at the profound thought and subtle rhymes of this poem:

“I say, the night has been long,
The wound has been deep,
The pit has been dark
And the walls have been steep.

But today, voices of old spirit sound
Speak to us in words profound,
Across the years, across the centuries,
Across the oceans, and across the seas.
They say, draw near to one another,
Save your race.
You have been paid for in a distant place,
The old ones remind us that slavery’s chains
Have paid for our freedom again and again.”

Deep / steep. Sound / profound. Centuries / seas. Race / place. And Chains has “ain” in it, as does Again! And she repeated that one here:

“The ancestors remind us, despite the history of pain
We are a going-on people who will rise again.”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/million-man-march-poem/

All hail the great poet Maya Angelou,
Dead at 86 so now she’s through!

[tumblindice]

The Eagle

By Maya “Bubba” Angelou

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;

Close to the sun in lonely lands,

Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he farts.

(thank you. thank you very much)

[crazycatlady]

I know. I was thinking about her cookbook too.

[PghBaldy]

Youtube Parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2rvLYLoRXg

[mc5cents]

Maybe. But it seems some of the “poetry” of people such as Maya is little more than a stream of consciousness put to paper. There is nothing more boring than listening to someone who jumps from one thought to the next with no seeming connection between the thoughts other than a political agenda to promote. You can call it poetry if you like but I will pass.

[PghBaldy]

MadTV parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmAhw7Ue_DI

[latina4dubya]

i appreciate your post...

[baddog 219]

She's dead?

[SpaceBar]

By 5pm eastern time, the media will have all but likened this illiterate racist to JC.

[COBOL2Java]

Moving along will not be very easy though. Every third school in your town will be named Maya Angelou School for Diversity.

Well, one good thing will come of it, and that is if you find yourself driving in an urban area and your Garmin indicates that you're about to come anywhere near a "Maya Angelou" Boulevard, you can make a U-Turn to avoid the feral yutes.

[pfflier]

Another flag at half-staff moment.