Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub – Prosery:  Maya Angelou  (posted by Bjorn)

Today we write Prosery together. The challenge is to write a piece of prose where we use a line from a piece of poetry.

Today we are looking into the poetry of Maya Angelou, and her most famous poem. “Caged bird”

And from this poem, you should use a line of seven words saying:

“his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream”

How strong the invisible
bars he has created
for himself to keep
his feelings harnessed
like a horse tied to
a post, to keep the world
outside at bay, where they
cannot harm him. But light
plays tricks on his eyes,
tries to poke its head
through the bars, while
his shadow shouts
on a nightmare scream.

Prosery: Maya Angelou