Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOUR WORLD, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON


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First Line: Your world is as big as you make it
Last Line: With rapture, with power, with ease!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans - Women


Your world is as big as you make it
I know, for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner
My wings pressing close to my side.

But I sighted the distant horizon
Where the sky-line encircled the sea
And I throbbed with a burning desire
To travel this immensity.

I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease!





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