Potential Titles: Maya Angelou

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The weight of our absent selves - Maya Angelou "After"

That leaps raging from the heavens - Maya Angelou "Ain't That Bad?"

Where water is not thirsty - Maya Angelou "Alone"

To cure their hearts of stone - Maya Angelou "Alone"

The gold of her promise - Maya Angelou "America"

Exchanging dreams with seraphim - Maya Angelou "Awaking in New York"

Traveling through casual space - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

Past aloof stars - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

The way of indifferent suns - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

A brave and startling truth - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

From fists of hostility - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

Into evenings of peace - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

Set in mysterious perfection - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

Hanging as eternal beauty - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

Quieted into awe - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

Leaps on the back of the wind - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"

And dares to claim the sun - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"

A caged bird stands on the grave of dreams - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"

Above the weeds of death - Maya Angelou "Elegy"

The brown caramel days of youth - Maya Angelou "Faces"

High pyramids of stone and question - Maya Angelou "For Us, Who Dare Not Dare"

Sad as summer parasols in a hurricane - Maya Angelou "Forgive"

The liquid notes of sorrow songs - Maya Angelou "A Georgia Song"

Need a wind to strike sharply - Maya Angelou "A Georgia Song"

Thread my voice with lies - Maya Angelou "How Can I Lie to You"

Mirror twins are different - Maya Angelou "Human Family"

With the teeth of a laugh - Maya Angelou "I Almost Remember"

When quiet inhabits my garden - Maya Angelou "I Almost Remember"

Today prepares tomorrow's ruin - Maya Angelou "In a Time"

Half-truths told and entire lies - Maya Angelou "In a Time"

To brave the pain of spring - Maya Angelou "In Retrospect"

Above the whim of time - Maya Angelou "In Retrospect"

Salt lost half its savor - Maya Angelou "Insignificant"

Nights when sleep plays coy - Maya Angelou "Insomniac"

Useless as wounded pride - Maya Angelou "Insomniac"

Muttering like rumors among the stars - Maya Angelou "Is Love"

My screams searched the heavens - Maya Angelou "Just Like Job"

Streets of wine and wandering - Maya Angelou "Lady Luncheon Club"

Turn to black for comfort - Maya Angelou "Late October"

Roil ceaselessly in cobweb greys - Maya Angelou "Late October"

Salt my tongue on hardened tears - Maya Angelou "Mourning Grace"

When silence turns the key - Maya Angelou "Now Long Ago"

Forgive life for happening - Maya Angelou "Old Folks Laugh"

Before a door of chance - Maya Angelou "On Diverse Deviation"

Then follow him with faith - Maya Angelou "On Working White Liberals"

Of wonder and dark envy - Maya Angelou "The Pusher"

Soft on that copper palm - Maya Angelou "The Pusher"

One million incensed gestures - Maya Angelou "Savior"

Evicted from sleep's mute palace - Maya Angelou "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?"

On the quiet slope of memory - Maya Angelou "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?"

The triumph of amorous insects - Maya Angelou "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?"

Between the unsung notes of night - Maya Angelou "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?"

No angels promised - Maya Angelou "The Singer Will Not Sing"

Bartered flesh and broken bones - Maya Angelou "Southeast Arkanasia"

With the certainty of tides - Maya Angelou "Still I Rise"

Blue farewell of a dying dream - Maya Angelou "Tears"

Of henbane steeped in chaff - Maya Angelou "To a Freedom Fighter"

Light as winter sunshine - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"

Hung from a string of silence - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"

Water boiled in innocence - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"

Shards of broken air - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"

Trinkets of borrowed loves - Maya Angelou "When You Come to Me"

Baubles of stolen kisses - Maya Angelou "When You Come to Me"

Delicate rumor of peace - Maya Angelou "Woman Me"

A light as subtle as your hands - Maya Angelou "A Zorro Man"


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