FEATURE: Poetry Friday~ Maya Angelou

Morning Swooners,

Sorry for the late post, I was swamped with Good Friday activities and was unable to get my post up. So anywho, let's get into it. We're in the middle of National Poetry Month and this week's featured Poet is one of my absolute favorite authors, Maya Angelou. She has written so many beautiful poems and stories in her lifetime and every one of them has touched my soul in one way or another. She is an inspiration to many people, myself included, and I strive to build a better life for myself daily because of her struggles. I hope you enjoy these poems and I hope they bring you as much joy (and emotions) as they have always brought me.

Senses of Insecurity

I couldn't tell fact from fiction

      or if my dream was true,

The only sure prediction

      in this whole world was you.

I'd touched your features inchly,

       heard love and dared the cost.

The scented spiel reeled me unreal

       and I found my senses lost.

Just for a Time

Oh how you used to walk

With that insouciant smile

I liked to hear you talk

And your style

Please me for a while.

You were my early love

New as a day breaking in Spring

You were the image of

Everything

That caused me to sing.

I don't like reminiscing

Nostalgia is not my forte

I don't spill tears

On yesterday's years

But honesty makes me say,

You were a precious pearl

How I loved to see you shine,

You were the perfect girl.

And you were mine.

For a time.

For a time.

Just for a time.

 

They Ask Why

A certain person wondered why

a big strong girl like me

wouldn't keep a job

which paid a normal salary.

I took my time to lead her

and to read her every page.

Even minimal people

can't survive on minimal wage.

A certain person wondered why

I wait all week for you.

I didn't have the words

to describe just what you do.

I said you had the motion

of the ocean in your walk,

and when you solve my riddles

you don't even have to talk.