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Poems by Maya Angelou about love are some of the most beautiful and moving poems ever written. Her words capture the essence of love in all its forms, from the gentle love of a mother for her child to the deep and abiding love between two people who have been together for a lifetime.
These 7 Poems on Love by Maya Angelou explore a wide range of emotions, from the joy to the pain of betrayal. They are written with such precision and lyricism that they seem to capture the full range of human experience. Maya Angelou’s poems on love are heartfelt and eloquent.
Many of Maya Angelou’s best-known poems focus on the plight of women, and specifically Black women. Another important strand to her work is work itself: a focus on the daily menial tasks which many wives and mothers have to carry out around the home as part of their domestic duties.
Love Letter. Listening winds overhear my privacies spoken aloud (in your absence, but for your sake). When you, mustachioed, nutmeg-brown lotus, sit beside the Oberlin shoji. My thoughts are particular: of your light lips and hungry hands writing Tai Chi urgencies into my body.
Angelou’s ‘A Kind of Love, Some Say’ explores the sometimes contrasting and sometimes complementary emotions of love and hate. She asks readers to consider how often the two are felt together and how that makes each more complicated to understand.
Classic Poetry Series. Maya Angelou - poems - Publication Date: 2012. Publisher: Poemhunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive. Maya Angelou(4 April 1928 - 28 May 2014) (born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) was an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton.
29 sty 2017 · Maya Angelou’s “Touched by An Angel”: We, unaccustomed to courage. exiles from delight. live coiled in shells of loneliness. until love leaves its high holy temple. and comes into our sight. to liberate us into life. Love arrives. and in its train come ecstasies.
