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Poem- Typhoon In recent, I have read a poem called “Still I Rise” , which was written by Maya Angelou, an African-American poet. You may find out that, themes about identity and racial discrimination are centered in the poetry. More or less, shall we say its heart begins from repression and end up release? In contract with Maya Angelou’s, it is as below a poor poem written by me. But just for my expressing about social issues after her inspiration. Typhoon Neon lights in midair are slightly dim A drizzled scene in wordless painted by wind's roars Its invisible figure on sea level from blue to green Perhaps resting before long, leaving weary seams and jars By its mighty hand bringing tall trees to their knees Politicians' portraits are falling out and swaying As if elixir lost efficacy, flying carpets flees But no blankets, homeless dogs in realistic woe are dying Treating all equally, outside the windows whispering low Where gaudy advertisements smashed An innocent passerby wounded by its colourful rainbow In an imaginable eye of waxing moon not shaded? Perhaps there is an incarnate stray bird comes down the walk Turn back, muzzled mouth points to a caterpillar With a cocooning thought calmly behind the room's door lock Released free wings, I wonder Eden of the creator

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Still I Rise   by Maya Angelou


 

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

 

 

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