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Refusal - Poem by Maya Angelou

This 3 sentence summary provides the high-level essence of the poem: The poem expresses the speaker's refusal to accept death without knowing if they will meet their beloved again in another life or world, as they treasure the intimate moments they have shared like kissing, touching hands, and laughter; while their body grows weak, the speaker defies death's arrival without the promise of one more sweet encounter with their beloved in the future.

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Refusal - Poem by Maya Angelou

This 3 sentence summary provides the high-level essence of the poem: The poem expresses the speaker's refusal to accept death without knowing if they will meet their beloved again in another life or world, as they treasure the intimate moments they have shared like kissing, touching hands, and laughter; while their body grows weak, the speaker defies death's arrival without the promise of one more sweet encounter with their beloved in the future.

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Refusal - Poem by Maya Angelou

Beloved,
In what other lives or lands
Have I known your lips
Your Hands
Your Laughter brave
Irreverent.
Those sweet excesses that
I do adore.
What surety is there
That we will meet again,
On other worlds some
Future time undated.
I defy my body's haste.
Without the promise
Of one more sweet encounter
I will not deign to die.

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