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Phillis Wheatly was the first black women poet,
who would one day inspire the world,
and didn't even know it.
In 1773 she was a slave,
knowing nothing of her talents,
she tried to read and write, which some in her
time found it brave.
Eventually her step mother taught her how to read and write,
which was forbidden of a slave,
she had a wonderous mind, which her words
wasn't kept enslaved.
She learned it with pride, learning
all she could, with the help of her mother teaching her
when no one else would.
She went on to become a famous poet of her time,
pubishing her first poem in 1767,
teaching the world her ways of dealing with expression.
After returning home she was granted her freedom,
freedom amongst herself, freedom to be with other people.
She later married a freed black man named John peters,
who inspired her to write more poetry,
expressing to her, how good it would be to tell her story.
In the end Phillis Wheatley died a famous poet,
only to later inspire the world, In which today her poems
are still quoted.
She not only died a famous poet,
But she also died a freed women,
exposing her life though words that she
had once written.
