Still I Rise BY Maya Angelou with lyrics

Still I Rise

[susanorr]

Absolutely love this poetry, Still I rise, by, Maya Angelou, my favourite ever poems. Absolutely love it.

[simondrake]

Maya

You knocked me over when I saw you
When you spoke you reeled me in
Your words tasted like velvet chocolate
I swallowed your hook completely smitten
Your smile worn like lace stockings
Eyes dazzled like two sunbeams
Your dulcet tones hit me like a high speed train
As I watched you do your thing
Everything done on purpose
Not one thing left to chance
I thought about your diamond thighs
And how you’d move if I watched you danced
The power of your poem hit me, like an atom bomb
Destroying me as it starched my soul
Every memory before this moment gone
Your sassiness and sexiness oozed
From your every pour
I heard and felt every word you said
And still I wanted more
As I watched you up there on stage
My heart began to pound
You showed in a performance with such elegance
My calling, I had found
I Rise is just like oxygen
That everyone should breath
The whole world should see what I have seen
Then we’d all believe
Your etched forever in my memory
My words they do not lie
Maya Angelou my Queen of poetry
It was my pleasure to watch you Rise

Simon Drake