What's your favorite poem? #asknostr
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Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
Most of them are in my native language. One that's not is "Do It Anyway" by Kent Keith. Another one is "Go to the Limits of Your Longing" by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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 backyard.
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.
My favorite is an ode to the fortress ✊🏼 it’s in Spanish.
In realms of science, a beacon bright,
Light dances with such pure delight.
A photon's journey, a cosmic flight,
Revealing secrets, both day and night.
Waves and particles, it's a dual charade,
Quantum mysteries in its cascade.
From colors of rainbows, to shadows it made,
Light's physics, a tale in which we're swayed.
Einstein's insight, so profoundly deep,
E=mc², the world did reap.
Time and space, in its shimmering sweep,
In light's embrace, our perceptions leap.
From the stars above to the microscope's view,
Light unveils worlds, both old and new.
A symphony of wavelengths, a vibrant hue,
Physics of light, forever true.
Let it guide your quest, in science's domain,
In your passion for knowledge, let it reign.
For in understanding light's intricate chain,
We unlock the universe's grand terrain.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
- Robert Frost
If, by Rudyard Kipling. No comparison.
What's yours?
This poem!
