Friday, January 3, 2003

On The Pulse Of Morning Comments

Rating: 3.7

A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Mark the mastodon.
The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
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Maya Angelou
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Lisa McNeill 08 January 2021

This is what I needed today.

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Reggie Harris 21 April 2020

The most extraordinary offering that a presidential inaugural has ever heard. I read it with joy, frequently.

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Alokananda Sengupta 23 March 2019

My favourite poem. I often quote stanzas from it

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Onimisi Yusuf 21 May 2018

Add a comment. Nice lines that reflect a struggle for balance among races.

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lotus is pretty 09 April 2018

i hate your poem on the pulse of morinig. i love you

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Boyowa Daniel 12 November 2017

nice one

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Resh Kav 24 June 2017

Amazing poem. love to read again & again

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Susan Williams 30 December 2015

There are so many verses in this piece that speak to the heart of mankind and they speak in many voices but one thing they have in common is that they speak in earnest and out of the honesty of a strong soul

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Maria Gonzalez 20 July 2015

Beautifully done Maya. As usual...

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Brian Jani 26 April 2014

Awesome I like this poem, check mine out 

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Miroslava Odalovic 09 July 2010

Now, this is the one I really like. Ecumenism at its utmost. I hope the words can make people love one another.

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Debra Cowley 21 June 2009

As I read I cried for you have touch the very soul of heaven a tree where we all purch and gather to feed. For when I wake I do see an international color of all spelender from what has not become Gods head to what he did find employable. Good morning my frist thing I try to strive to say to my creator every morning. Thank you.

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Emily Boronkay 18 December 2007

Beautiful, hopeful, lyrical! Only better when she reads it herself!

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Steve Mcdonald 20 April 2007

A Rock, A Paper, A Pair of Sissors Mark Barney The dinosaur (why did we stop capitalising?) Here are the dry tokens of semi digested Laundry lists of special Interest groups The fewmets of fatuousness. It sure takes Ms Johnson a longish time to say GOOD MORNING.

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David Starmer 30 May 2006

This is actually entitled 'On The Pulse of Morning' and was read at the first inaugural of President Clinton.

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Jennifer J. Abernathey 22 November 2005

Beautiful. I forget about the joy set before us most of the time anymore. Maybe you've seen it. I'd like to again.

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