Poetry
epub |eng | 1998-03-12 | Author:Yusef Komunyakaa [Komunyakaa, Yusef]
I step off the path, sinking into one-hundred-years of leaves. Like trapped deer, we face each other. Her hand in his. His blue eyes. Her Vietnamese face. Am I a ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-03-14 | Author:Yusef Komunyakaa [Komunyakaa, Yusef]
Page 79 Addendum I'm a bone roller, a high roller, listening to Lester Young & Big Mama Thornton, Peacock 1612. I'm a street nigger from way back when: I am ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1992-09-14 | Author:Yusef Komunyakaa [Komunyakaa, Yusef]
Page 29 Gristmill Black hands shucked & shelled corn into a washtub While a circle of ancient voices Hummed ''Li'l Liza Jane." Daddy shouldered a hundred-pound sack To Mister Adam's ...
( Category:
United States
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Leonard Cohen [Cohen, Leonard]
FIRST OF ALL First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again A family will pass by in the night speaking of the children’s bedtime ...
( Category:
Love Poems
March 26,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Iowa Poetry Prize
Page 45 of the known might, for instance, be the body, the physical presence of the self within the confines of fingers and toes which find their places in the ...
( Category:
Poetry
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]
They accuse me of livin’ from day to day, but who are they kiddin’? So are they. My life ain’t heaven but it sure ain’t hell. I’m not on top ...
( Category:
African American
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]
Ministers make novena with the charred bones of four very small very black very young children (Intone DIXIE) And guard the relics of your intact hymen daily putting to death, ...
( Category:
Love Poems
March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1994-03-25 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]
One more round And let's heave it down, One more round And let's heave it down. Papa drove steel and Momma stood guard, I never heard them holler ‘cause the ...
( Category:
African American
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]
I was dragged by braids On a sandy beach I was pulled near you But beyond your reach You were bound and gagged When you heard me cry Your spirit ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]
It is Christmas time, a halting of hate time. On this platform of peace, we can create a language To translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other. At this ...
( Category:
Inspirational & Religious
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-14 | Author:Rabindranath Tagore [Tagore, Rabindranath]
But our fear is, that the poison may be more powerful than the food, and what is strength in her to-day may not be the sign of health, but the ...
( Category:
Nationalism
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:John Ashbery [Ashbery, John]
On the streets, in private places, they have no idea of the importance of these things. This exists only in our own minds, that is not in any place, nowhere. ...
( Category:
United States
March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:William Shakespeare
* * * SCENE 4. A room in PAGE'S house. [Enter FENTON, ANNE PAGE, and MISTRESS QUICKLY. MISTRESS QUICKLY stands apart.] FENTON. I see I cannot get thy father's love; ...
( Category:
Shakespeare
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Dickinson
No squirrel went abroad; A dog’s belated feet Like intermittent plush were heard Adown the empty street. To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little ...
( Category:
United States
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-05 | Author:Patrick Kavanagh [Kavanagh, Patrick]
I broke away And rule all dominions that are rare; I took with me all the answers to every prayer That young men and girls pray for: love, happiness, riches ...
( Category:
Poetry
March 26,2014 )
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