stephanielisa

So difficult to choose from all the amazing poems but I love almost anything by W.B. Yeats, for example: Excerpt from 'Remorse for Intemperate Speech' Out of Ireland have we come. Great hatred, little room, Maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb A fanatic heart. But my all time favourite has to be Maya Angelou, Still I Rise Still I Rise 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 back yard. 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. I love the way poems can take our emotions by the throat and this poem does that for me.

Hello, I'm new to the forum but have been an avid reader for years. Nora Roberts tends to write in sets of three - some of the trilogies are more supernatural or magical, such as The Morrigan's Cross/Dance of the Gods/ Valley of Silence, which is one of my favourites; other books are much more reality based such as the excellent Chesapeake Bay quartet. Happy reading!