Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened.

"When Great Trees Fall": The Poetry of Maya Angelou childhood recitals for Mama Henderson and-in her televised public poems, these lyrics are aspects of her amazing oratory.

I thought I could read it on my own but grew too emotional and then my children and our family priest all joined in reading it.

In"Still I Rise" the first seven stanzas are written in ballad form (ABCB, alternating iambic tetrameter/trimeter) with many anapestic and spondaic substitutions. Apr 01, When Great Trees Fall by Maya Angelou. ‘When Great Trees Fall’ by Maya Angelou speaks about loss as a tragic yet inevitable part of the human experience. When it strikes, it leaves despair and misery in its path.

Barrett 11 months ago Hello Patricia Sorry for your loss.

Loss can eat away at the very heart and soul of a human being. It leaves a gnawing pain that nothing can treeleaning.buzzs: 6.