Poetry

Miss Rixie's Favorite Poems:


Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden

Resume by Dorothy Parker

Merry Go Round by Langston Hughes

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day) by William Shakespeare

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

If by Rudyard Kipling

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Blackbird Singing by Paul McCartney

The Sound of Silence by Paul Simon

And Miss Rixie's favorite poem of all time:

Alone
by Maya Angelou

Lying. thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

There are some millionares
With money they can't use
Their wives run around like banshees
Their children sing the blues
They've got expensive doctors
To cure their hearts of stone.
But nobody
No nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can here the moan,
Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.