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Get Up

Dr. Pearline Sturdivant 1972 (Pennsylvania)

Every aspect of your soul is shattered.
Your very being is sensitive and broken.
Getting up from ashes seems impossible to you....Haaaa....So you think...
From the ruins of life’s circumstances get up!
From the devastation of the brokenness get up!
Getting up is possible.
Salvaging your soul is possible.
Leaving the hurt behind is possible.
Resilience is possible.
Knocking down brokenness’ door is possible.
Loving yourself is possible!
Being who you were meant to be is possible!
Get up and take back your life.
From the ruins of life’s circumstances
GET uPpp!

About this poem

This poem was written to encourage the masses to never give up!

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Written on May 06, 1972

Submitted by dr.pearlinesturdivant on February 14, 2022

Modified on May 04, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDDEEEEEEEFGD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 571
Words 108
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
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Dr. Pearline Sturdivant

Dr. Pearline Sturdivant is a resilient being. Her for uplifting others, through spoken word poetry, came out of the issues of life. Just as Langston Hughes, she is a graduate of Lincoln University. She too, is a graduate of Temple University where she attained her doctorate of Educational Leadership and an alumni of Temple’s Fox School of Business. more…

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