Jamekea+Poetry+Portfolio

"Poetry is the doorway to the soul" - Floria


 * Ode**

Have you ever took a moment in life to look up, I'm pretty sure we all did. But have you ever realized it tells more than than we think? It's tells us something deeper. It shows us colors, It's shows us it has feelings. When it rains, it's it way of saying, "Stop polluting me." When it's thundering and lightning it's teling us "I mad at you. Stop doing what your doing." It speaks, For the supernautral, God uses it, To tell us when he's mad, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">When it rains, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It's God crying because we have made him upset. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The thunder and lightning, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Is God scarying us for doing wrong. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I don't know about you, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It is the opening to the Heaven that waits. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It is still beautiful, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">even though all the pollution, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">from our buildings and cars. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It's able to maintain it's beauty, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">because Heaven is so divine and gorgeous, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">No ugliness can obtain it. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It is the opening to Heaven, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Heaven that waits for me and some of you. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I'm in love with what the it brings, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I take in every moment, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">like it's my last <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It's the most beautifulest thing to me. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Because it's where my home awaits. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">This is my ode to the sky, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">To it from me.

Spread my wings and show the people, I win.
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I was raised by my grandmother, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">1628 North Philly, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Living there for 14 years, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Weren't born in the country, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Weren't raised there either. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Yet some how I talk like it, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I eat like it, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">and I live almost like it. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I was taught respect, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I was took wisdom. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I was taught how to love, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I was taught how pray. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I was taught how to act, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">In the Southern way. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I'm a city Southern girl. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">To Jamekea- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Sometimes the people you love will hurt you, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And sometimes your friends will make you mad. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Those times when the world seems to desert you <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And your left alone, confused, and feeling sad, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">When things surround you that you cannot control, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">**Remember who you are,** what you believe and love. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Take notice of **the real you**, not in part but in whole, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And know **the talent and strength you are made of**. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Don't define yourself by what others see <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Because those judgements are not based on fact. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Define yourself on what you see and believe, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">**Let your heart lead you** in the ways which you act. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Put your **hope in yourself**, you can only control you, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Other things may be uncontrollable in your life. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">People are going to do what people are going to do, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">But when you sit alone in your room late at night <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">You can find **joy and peace of mind** if you know <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">That **you are someone special**, and be proud of <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Who you are and who you become as you grow: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Someone **strong, smart, opinionated and loved.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">**You are you and no one can take that away.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">From Mr. Bilger <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Artist Statement- <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The way I write is unique and different. Nobody can copy the way I write because there isn't one specific way that I write. I write in many different ways due to my emotions. I write the best when I'm mad and the worst when I'm glad. I really don't have a specific structure, it just flows as I write. Sometimes I may write in one big paragraph and other times I may write in stanza. When I write in stanza there isn't a certain amount of lines and the don't necessarily rhyme. I don't like writing all the time mainly when I'm mad. I'm not a poet, I'm a story teller.
 * I was raised by-**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Still I Rise by Maya Angelou **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">You may write me down in history <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">With your bitter, twisted lies, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">You may trod me in the very dirt <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">But still, like dust, I'll rise. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Does my sassiness upset you? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Why are you beset with gloom? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Pumping in my living room.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Just like moons and like suns, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">With the certainty of tides, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Just like hopes springing high, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Still I'll rise.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Did you want to see me broken? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Bowed head and lowered eyes? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Shoulders falling down like teardrops. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Weakened by my soulful cries.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Does my haughtiness offend you? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Don't you take it awful hard <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Diggin' in my own back yard.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">You may shoot me with your words, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">You may cut me with your eyes, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">You may kill me with your hatefulness, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">But still, like air, I'll rise.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Does my sexiness upset you? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Does it come as a surprise <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">That I dance like I've got diamonds <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">At the meeting of my thighs?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Out of the huts of history's shame <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">I rise <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Up from a past that's rooted in pain <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">I rise <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Leaving behind nights of terror and fear <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">I rise <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">I rise <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">I rise <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">I rise <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">I rise.

This poem talks about how people mistreat others because they think they're better than them. When I read this poem it makes me think of slavery, I believe this poem is about slavery or during the time of slavery. Everything about it reminds me of how whites "used" to treat blacks back in the day. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">"You may write me down in history <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em;">With your bitter, twisted lies," seems to say that people will lie on you to make themselves look innocent. They will try to bring you down by telling people all of those lies but in the end the truth comes out. The truth shows us the real thing that happened so all of their lies disappears.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Alone by Maya Angelou **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Lying, thinking <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Last night <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">How to find my soul a home <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Where water is not thirsty <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And bread loaf is not stone <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I came up with one thing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And I don't believe I'm wrong <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">That nobody, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But nobody <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Can make it out here alone.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Alone, all alone <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nobody, but nobody <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Can make it out here alone.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There are some millionaires <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">With money they can't use <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Their wives run round like banshees <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Their children sing the blues <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">They've got expensive doctors <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">To cure their hearts of stone. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But nobody <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">No, nobody <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Can make it out here alone.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Alone, all alone <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nobody, but nobody <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Can make it out here alone.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Now if you listen closely <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I'll tell you what I know <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Storm clouds are gathering <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The wind is gonna blow <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The race of man is suffering <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And I can hear the moan, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">'Cause nobody, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But nobody <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Can make it out here alone.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Alone, all alone <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nobody, but nobody <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Can make it out here alone.

The author uses the phrase "nobody can make it out here alone" a lot because it wants the reader to understand that we all need somebody to lean on. It's kind of saying that we need God, but then it's not. It has a rhyme scheme of almost every two lines rhyme, almost every stanza have 9 lines, and it has a repetitive phrase "nobody can make it out here alone. The words alone and nobody are repeated a lot. In every line a different situation is brought up, but it relates back to what the thesis is, which is nobody can make it out here alone. It's sounds old fashion because it's being very direct and not caring about what the reader thinks or feels, earnest.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">**I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">A free bird leaps <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">on the back of the wind <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">and floats downstream <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">till the current ends <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">and dips his wing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">in the orange sun rays <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">and dares to claim the sky. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">But a bird that stalks <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">down his narrow cage <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">can seldom see through <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">his bars of rage <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">his wings are clipped and <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">his feet are tied <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">so he opens his throat to sing. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">The caged bird sings <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">with a fearful trill <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">of things unknown <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">but longed for still <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">and his tune is heard <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">on the distant hill <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">for the caged bird <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">sings of freedom. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">The free bird thinks of another breeze <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">and he names the sky his own <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">his wings are clipped and his feet are tied <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">so he opens his throat to sing. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">The caged bird sings <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">with a fearful trill <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">of things unknown <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">but longed for still <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">and his tune is heard <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">on the distant hill <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">for the caged bird <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;">sings of freedom. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Maya Angelou uses a the phrase "Free Bird" to represent man. Man meaning us human beings. She tells a story of how the Caged bird dreams and sings for freedom. How everything it wanted to do it can't do because it's now caged. It represents how we have dreams and hopes but some of them aren't fulfilled because somethings cages us. It doesn't necessarily have to be a real caged, because it's something that bonds us. We all had the felt trapped and limited, but when if we are our minds aren't. Our minds have ability to do travel and do anything it wants, just like the caged bird mind.