As we split ourselves/
in diff’rent groups, we forget/
how alike we are.
Posts Tagged ‘Maya Angelou’
We’re More Alike Than We Are Different: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku
October 12, 2018Overlapping Wakes: Revolutionary IMprov Haiku
May 28, 2014Be not sad in her/
passing, but be glad that her/
wake overlapped yours.
OR
Don’t sorrow in her/
passing. Rise! Rise! knowing her/
wake overlapped yours.
Written to a friend who’d met and been touched by Dr. Maya Angelou, who was bemoaning her passing. My friend had written this about their meeting: http://bellavox.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/my-inspiration-started-long-ago-and-peaked-the-night-i-ate-dinner-with-maya-angelou/
To a Rose At Last Blossoming: Revolutionary Blogging Improv Sonnet
August 28, 2010A friend wrote a poem in a new blog, and then wondered about her poetic ability. This sonnet is in response (and is also on the comment page to her poem).
To a Rose At Last Blossoming
Roses don’t blossom
quickly, like the daffodil, tulip,
or dandilion,
only to fade just as quickly away.
Instead, they rise from a bushes,
born years before.
The older the rosebush,
the sweeter and longer lasting the blossom.
People glance at rosebushes in winter,
comment on their plainness;
their brown sticks protruding through dead mulch;
their ugliness, deadness, and thorns.
But when rose blossoms at last spread their color’d fragrance,
Humankind is blessed, touched and inspired by true beauty.
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