The walk of life can be daunting
More so for a little scared girl
Looking for her path
Searching for meaning
Longing for understanding
But she found solace
In words.
Found hope in writing
Felt at home in her thoughts
When she got lost in the words you span.
Though worlds apart
I felt it.
Each time your spoke,
I melted.
The lines you wrote
I inhaled them.
My oblivious soul sister
Related only by the stroke of the pen.
You carried me through my roughest patches
We never met but I felt like I knew you
Found traces of my life
Fragments of my thoughts
A bunch of my fears
And a lot of happy tears
From your work
Even if you’re gone
In my heart you live on
I’m honored to have shared in your words
I’m blessed to have bathed in your wisdom
Though I never met you,
And oh how I wish I did,
I’ve always loved you
So rest in peace,
Dr. Maya Angelou.
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lidy
May 29, 2014 at 6:52 pm
hi, was doing a Google search for blog sites celebrating Maya Angelou but mostly found news links about her death yesterday when I stumbled on yours. so far, it looks like most fans are using other forms of social media like tweeting to pay respects, so imagine how glad I was that I found your site. I like your poem “Still Alive to Me,” especially the first two stanzas and my favorite line is “My oblivious soul sister, Related only by the stroke of the pen.”
I’m planning on doing memorial blog post on my blog and would love to hear from you, if you’re able. Can’t wait to hear from you.
Miss Njogo
May 29, 2014 at 7:03 pm
Hi Lidy. Thanks for reading and i’m glad you liked it. I would love to help out in anyway i can. Maya was a great inspiration to me and many others and she deserves to be celebrated. I bet she would want people to celebrate and not mourn. She lived a full life taking life in with a big spoon. Let me know how i can help. 🙂
lidy
May 29, 2014 at 8:25 pm
thanks miss njogo. like you, I’m working on a poem in tribute to Maya Angelou. So far I’ve gathered some links to celebrate Maya. eg, the official maya angelou website, a recording of Phenomenal Woman, her qoutes and 10 facts about Maya by abc news. Any other links you can find in celebration of Ms. Angelou and not just her biography or news of her death, will be greatly appreciated. As well as other author/poet blogs in tribute of Maya to direct readers to.
Miss Njogo
June 4, 2014 at 5:28 pm
Great. I’ll get back to you once i find anything
lidy
June 25, 2014 at 7:02 pm
hi miss njogo, were you able to find anything? I wanted to do a follow up post on Maya, but this time on the upcoming 12th Annual UNCF Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Luncheon on Saturday, June 28th.
http://iheartallstories.weebly.com/paving-my-road-of-storytelling-one-baby-step-at-a-time/an-author-poet-and-woman-phenomenally-tribute-to-maya-angelou