In You Do I Take Refuge

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

7 O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge;
     save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
 2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
     rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

3 O Lord my God, if I have done this,
     if there is wrong in my hands,
 4 if I have repaid my friend with evil

Be Nobody's Darling By Alice Walker

 Be nobody's darling;
 Be an outcast.
 Take the contradictions
 Of your life
 And wrap around
 You like a shawl,
 To parry stones
 To keep you warm.
 Watch the people succumb
 To madness
 With ample cheer;
 Let them look askance at you
 And you askance reply.
 Be an outcast;
 Be pleased to walk alone
 (Uncool)
 Or line the c...

Never to Dream of Spiders by Audre Lorde

Time collapses between the lips of strangers   

my days collapse into a hollow tube

soon implodes against now

like an iron wall

my eyes are blocked with rubble

a smear of perspectives

blurring each horizon

in the breathless precision of silence

one word is made.

Once the renegade flesh was gone   

fall air lay against my face

sharp and blue as a needle

but the rain fell through October   

and death lay   ...

Galentine's Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated on February 13, the day before Valentine's Day, to honor and celebrate female friendships. It originated from the TV show "Parks and Recreation," where the character Leslie Knope created the day to gather her female friends for fun and appreciation. -newmodernmom.com

Poems are green and Poetry is mean.
-Poetry Beast

Please accept my endless g...

Poetry by Nikki Giovanni

poetry is motion graceful
 as a fawn
 gentle as a teardrop
 strong like the eye
 finding peace in a crowded room
 we poets tend to think
 our words are golden
 though emotion speaks too
 loudly to be defined
 by silence
 sometimes after midnight or just before
 the dawn
 we sit typewriter in hand
 pulling loneliness around us
 forgetting our lovers or c...

love is more thicker than forget by E. E. Cummings

love is more thicker than forget
 more thinner than recall
 more seldom than a wave is wet
 more frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonly
 and less it shall unbe
 than all the sea which only
 is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win
 less never than alive
 less bigger than the least begin
 less littler than forgive

it is most san...

Remember By Christina Rossetti

Remember me when I am gone away,

Gone far away into the silent land;

When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.

Remember me when no more day by day

You tell me of our future that you plann'd:

Only remember me; you understand

It will be late to counsel then or pray.

Yet if you should forget me for a while

And afterwards remember, do not grieve:

For if the darkness and c...

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4. Champagne Poetry 
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Excerpt from "I Have A Dream" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to...

Psalm 91
My Refuge and My Fortress
1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
    will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,
    my God, in whom I trust.”

3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
    and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his pinions,
    and under his wings you will find refuge;
    his fait...

She Walks in Beauty - (George Gordon) Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o’er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express,

H...

Woman Work Poem by Maya Angelou

I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.

Shine on me, sunshine

Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead by William Shakespeare

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell; 
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so, 
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, 
If thinking on me t...

Psalm 23 (ESV)

The Lord Is My Shepherd

A Psalm of David.

1    The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
 2     He makes me lie down in green pastures.
 He leads me beside still waters.
 3     He restores my soul.
 He leads me in paths of righteousness
     for his name's sake.

4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
     I will fear no evil,
 for you are with me;
 ...

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? By William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or natu...

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 wan...

Baby Jesus, Child Of Love, By Marcia A. Newton

Baby Jesus, child of love,
 born of Mary, child of God,
 born this night to bring us light,
 God with us, Emmanuel.
 
 Bells ring out, a child is born.
 Angels sing out, "Christ the Lord!"
 All on Earth rejoice His birth,
 a Child of love, the Promised One.
 
 Hope was born this silent night,
 dark no more, eternal light.<...