Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Maya Angelou, 1928-2014

Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, was an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. Maya Angelou is known for her series of six autobiographies, starting with the landmark book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Her volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.  Ms. Angelou died at home Wednesday, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.


“On the Pulse of Morning”
A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon,
The dinosaur, who left dried tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully,
Come, you may stand upon my
Back and face your distant destiny,
But seek no haven in my shadow,
I will give you no hiding place down here.


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