YET I RISE (original version)

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BLACK STRUGGLES: Trubute to Maya Angelou and Yolanda Adams

YET I RISE (original version)

LISTENING TO YOLANDA … THINKIN’ ABOUT MAYA

 

STILL I RISE!!!!  STILL I RISE!!!!

 

IN ALL THIS... WHAT IS A CHALLENGE …?

 

LIFE?   …  YET “I” RISE

 

INSPIRATION, SENSATION, GIVES YOU THE COURAGE TO MOVE ON … CHEVRO-LAY… SHOVE ONE, LAY THE OTHER -- WALK RIGHT, TALK RIGHT,

“A MAN WITH ONE HAND PUT FORTH TO THE PLOW, YET LOOKING BACK IS NOT FIT…”

 

CYCLICLY; NOT PSYCHICLY WE EMERGED FAITH-FILLED PEOPLES…

DESPITE ALL ODDS WHO HAVE YET RISEN

 

A TRY BEATS A FAILURE EVERY TIME…

 CREAM RISES TO THE TOP …

ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE …

THE WEAK FALL BY THE WAYSIDE …

 

 “ONLY BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE”

 FACE YOUR FEARS …

 KEEP ON TRUCKING …

 HAVE FAITH IN YO FAITH…!!!

 

HUMBLE YO’SELF  … CONFESS YO SINS …

WHEN YOU THINK YOU ARE WEAK; YET YOU ARE STRONG

 

“ABOVE ALL KINGDOMS AND ABOVE ALL THRONES, PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS AND WICKNEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES” … 

YET … “DOMINION OVER EVERY CREEPING THING, FISH OF THE SEA, FOWLS OF THE AIR …”

YET I RISE …

ABOVE POVERTY, SICKNESS, DIS-EASE, DIS-COURAGE, DIS-ILLUSIONMENT, A-BANDONMENT

YET I RISE


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tsgirl commented on YET I RISE (original version)

06-08-2009

I enjoyed the reading of your poem, it sends out hope, you have an invitation to visit my poems @http://www.originalpoetry.com/poet/tsgirl, comments and ratings are welcome. Thank you 1 Luv

Poetry1959

06/10/2009

Thank you ts I think I have read a couple of yours, I will read more ...

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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