Flickrfan: ThankYouKeys

Photographed by Fenng(dbanotes)

Thank you sign spelled with computer keys

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Flickrfan: (216/365) Still I Rise

Photographed by Leeni!

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Love, love, LOVE today’s TRP theme – Free Verse.

This is from a poem by Maya Angelou called "Still I Rise."

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

I was introduced to this poem during my freshman year of high school, and I instantly adored it. In a world where so many people dislike themselves for so many different reasons, this is nothing short of a breath of fresh air. Ahhhh… 🙂

Oh, and can’t forget – Happy HNF!

And happy birthday to my daddy…he would have been 66 today.

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Flickrfan: 129.365 i’d offer you my hand,

Photographed by ashley rose,

you’ll be so beautiful,
so charming.
lying dead in my room,
i lost touch with my hand,
and the knife in your back.
short story this tragic ending.
the missing link in the chain of events,
that have occurred gravely throughout the years.
you will not die with me.

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Flickrfan: JetPens.com Test: Moleskine & Pens

Photographed by Mike Rohde

Photos of my tests on sample pens sent by Lily at JetPens.com. This is the group of sample pens on the Moleskine sketchbook I used for testing.

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