For Maya
A girl my age.
A girl the age I was
when I first saw her story.
I was a girl vacationing in Cape Cod with my family.
She was a girl in St. Louis Missouri
On a television screen,
but real as life
for a girl my age
watching a girl my age with a family,
be taken
but not destroyed.
A girl my age stopped talking for years
but never stopped communicating.
A girl my age went away
yet never left.
A girl my age
returned with words overflowing
returned with wisdom
never knowing
how she would shape the world,
returned with her own life
in her own hands
and her own voice.
A girl my age,
long since a woman
now passed on
and newly reborn
in the voices of women like me,
who spin silence into power.
-ZG
All at once... 
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Wonderful words!
Thank you! ❤
Nice!
Beautiful words thanks for sharing…
beautiful
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This is really nice!
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Beautiful. Just, no words worthy like hers were, to say how much I love this.
Thank you so much! That means a lot to me.
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Made my day.
And that makes my day!
🙂
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Such lovely words.
Who spin silence into power…..wow….gist of it…..RIP Maya Angelou….good poetry….simple yet powerful…I am going to follow you.
Thank you so much! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
Beautiful! ❤
Thank you! 🙂
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Cool
Love this.
Thank you!
Beautiful poem and beautiful tribute
Thanks! Inspired by a treasure.
Very nice.
Thank you!
Nice poem
Thanks!
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Well written and peppered with Maya’s tenacity
That’s really lovely of you! Thank you.
Beautiful!! really really beautiful!
Thank you so much!
nice lovely poetry
Thank you!
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For Maya…..
beautifully composed!! loved it ❤
Beautiful. Maya was pure love
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Powerful post/poem. 🙂
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Maya:
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Wow wonderful tribute of words for someone who gave us so many of her own
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A girl my age
I’m inspired, thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much!
🙂
Stunning!
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excellent portrayal of thoughts……. plzzz respond to blog punyachopra.wordpress.com
Beautiful
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Maya definitely passed the creative torch on to many of us. She will be watching and whispering to us.
Beautiful words!
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Beautiful.
Good feel ur words have
intresting poetry
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Gorgeous!
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