“I exist as I am, that is enough.” — Walt Whitman I chose this poem because the title pulled me in. O Me! O Life! Appealed to me because it gave me the sense of being dramatic and comparing as in, “oh dear me, oh my poor life.” Upon reading it, Whitman offered an answer… Read more

A free bird leapson the back of the wind   and floats downstream   till the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun raysand dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of ragehis wings are clipped and   his feet are tiedso he opens his throat to sing. The caged… Read more

Maya Angelou was an African American writer and actor known for her Civil Rights themed works. She grew up in Arkansas with her grandparents due to her parents splitting apart when she was young. She grew up with a large mix of traumas that included being raped by her mother’s boyfriend at 7, only for… Read more