A Prayer Inspired By 'Still I Rise' By Maya Angelou
India, March 16 -- (A poem loosely inspired by or based on the poem of resistance and empowerment titled 'Still I Rise' penned by Maya Angelou, which I intend to share with fellow poets, humanists, and with all my women comrades in the month of March, the phenomenal #WomensHistoryMonth)
Let's talk about a prayer of a clear, azure sky
After explosives have burnt
and exhausted themselves in the streets.
Let's read 'Still I Rise', the fiery utterances
Of a burnt out poet after our darkest dreams
With their dead limbs and hands, return to their shivering abyss.
Let's free the landscape of our desires, exploding into screams
While in the deep, dark grave of our yesteryears
Primordial venom of oppression writhes, burns.
Let's adopt, s...
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