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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Good. She was an affront to nose.
Hillary! will be using this Maya poem ,no doubt, but yours it better.
“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies.
I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips.
I’m a woman Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman, That’s me.”
I'm fairly certain that's the case . . . in their opinion. I am not a scholar of poetry and will reserve judgement for those who are, and even then I may pick and choose whether I reject it. There are some songs when I was younger that I really thought "sucked." Over time my opinion changed.
How many liberals like, and listen to, Stevie Wonder? I happen to consider him one of the best songwriters and musicians ever, but there also plenty who will flat out say he "sucks" both on account of being a liberal and a poor musician in their view. But . . . I tend to filter out the knee jerk reactions any more when I can.
Just don't pass me on the road, pull in front of me, and slow down, because in realms of road rage my mouth becomes foul and my gestures coarse.
Too bad, I never understood how she could be called a poet, I think she was celebrated becuase she was a civil rights and left wing activist.
Noise, not nose although...
In that spirit, here are my comments on the life and death of Maya Angelou:
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Excellent!
I know someone with an MA in English Lit, she's never read a play by Shakespeare, but she knows all about Maya.
My favorite line…”Kill him till he is dead”.
First, RIP to Ms. Angelou.
Second, she used to teach over at Wake Forest University.
Only the words are mine.. the inspiration was all Angelou.
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...even though she doesn't need ventilation.
You might want to open a window anyway.
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She looks like she's asleep
and it's a shame that she won't keep,
But it's summer
and we're running out of ice.
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You sound like me. I was an English major in the seventies at University of Montana Missoula, where Richard Hugo held sway. Those were the days. I heard Tess Gallagher read too.
I think that poetry is important to people too, in ways that might not be readily apparent. This is one of the reasons I hate seeing college becoming just a factory producing people better able to get jobs and pay off student loan debt. Things like poetry is what produces a well-rounded, thinking person, something considerably higher than an animal.
I heard a radio show on CBC once discussing the old elementary school practice of having kids memorize poetry. It turns out that there are benefits of this. Some people actually recall this poetry years later to help them in stressful times. A lot of kids memorizing poetry in country grade schools like mine were not going past 8th grade and a bit of high school and everybody knew it, but this didn’t make it any less important. .Daffodils came up a lot. Wordsworth gets little respect today, except from my British ex-boyfriend and my mother, both dead now.
I remember learning Pippa Passes.
Happy dead terrorist day.
Dedicated to the pathetic, racist, Muumuu wearing Marxists “poet”.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
My poetry is better
than Maya’s.
Oh my - you might be right.
Perfect!
“There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
The left will think it is brilliant -- they use that logic to push the CO2 AGW fraud.
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