I'm currently reading I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou and am loving it, so I searched for a poem of hers and found this one.
It's a poem sure, but my more immediate connection with it went something like, 'mmmhmm, hey! it's a song!'. It's so incredibly musical. It has a chorus: "That nobody,/But nobody/Can make it out here alone." It has changes in meter and rhythm which signify changes in verse and even isolates a bridge: "Now if you listen closely/I'll tell you what I know...."
It's pretty groovy stuff.
Favorite line: "Lying, thinking/Last night"
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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What do you think of today's poem?