tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4521104262463863472.post855156359045637184..comments2023-02-24T05:22:22.259-08:00Comments on ESSENCETIAL LIFE: NEW MOON / SOLAR ECLIPSEElly Yulehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724815490643531748noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4521104262463863472.post-20660965692076084192013-11-04T11:36:12.341-08:002013-11-04T11:36:12.341-08:00Beautiful post. thank you dear sister goddess!!! I...Beautiful post. thank you dear sister goddess!!! It makes me think of this poem by my favorite Maya Angelou. <br /><br />Still I Rise<br /><br />You may write me down in history<br />With your bitter, twisted lies,<br />You may tread me in the very dirt<br />But still, like dust, I'll rise.<br /><br />Does my sassiness upset you? <br />Why are you beset with gloom? <br />'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells<br />Pumping in my living room.<br /><br />Just like moons and like suns,<br />With the certainty of tides,<br />Just like hopes springing high,<br />Still I'll rise.<br /><br />Did you want to see me broken? <br />Bowed head and lowered eyes? <br />Shoulders falling down like teardrops.<br />Weakened by my soulful cries.<br /><br />Does my haughtiness offend you? <br />Don't you take it awful hard<br />'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines<br />Diggin' in my own back yard.<br /><br />You may shoot me with your words,<br />You may cut me with your eyes,<br />You may kill me with your hatefulness,<br />But still, like air, I'll rise.<br /><br />Does my sexiness upset you? <br />Does it come as a surprise<br />That I dance like I've got diamonds<br />At the meeting of my thighs? <br /><br />Out of the huts of history's shame<br />I rise<br />Up from a past that's rooted in pain<br />I rise<br />I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,<br />Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.<br />Leaving behind nights of terror and fear<br />I rise<br />Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear<br />I rise<br />Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,<br />I am the dream and the hope of the slave.<br />I rise<br />I rise<br />I rise. <br />Maya Angelou<br /><br />Love, Elizabeth<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00827990923283840487noreply@blogger.com