#BlackPoets

Werewolf Avoidance by Nikki Giovanni

I've never "blogged" before so this is new territory for me I do poet though and that is always somewhere in the netherland I think poetry is employed by truth I think our job is to tell the truth as we see it don't you just hate a namby-pamby poem that goes all over the place saying nothing

Poets should be strong in our emotions and our words that might make us difficult to live with but I do believe easier to love Poet is garlic Not for everyone but for those who take it never get caught by werewolves

— Chasing Utopia by Nikki Giovanni (Page 80)

A Robin's Poem by Nikki Giovanni

if you plant grain you get fields of flour if you plant seeds you get grass or babies i planted once and a robin red breast flew in my window but a tom cat wouldn't let it stay

— The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni (Page 119)

The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Nikki Giovanni

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-violence.

— The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni (Page 51)

Sometimes by Nikki Giovanni

sometimes when i wake up in the morning and see all the faces i just can't breathe

— The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni (Page 132)