Poetry - Nikki Giovanni

Poetry by Nikki Giovanni

poetry is motion graceful
 as a fawn
 gentle as a teardrop
 strong like the eye
 finding peace in a crowded room
 we poets tend to think
 our words are golden
 though emotion speaks too
 loudly to be defined
 by silence
 sometimes after midnight or just before
 the dawn
 we sit typewriter in hand
 pulling loneliness around us
 forgetting our lovers or children
 who are sleeping
 ignoring the weary wariness
 of our own logic
 to compsoe a poem
 no one understands it
 it never says 'love me' for poets are
 beyond love
 it never says 'accept me' for poems seke not
 acceptance but controversy
 it only says 'i am' and therefore
 i concede that you are too
 
 a poem is pure energy
 horizontally contained
 between the mind
 of the poet and the ear of the reader
 if it does not sing discard the ear
 for poetry is song
 if it does not deligh discard
 the heart for poetry is joy
 if it does not inform then close
 off the brain for it is dead
 if it cannot heed the insistent message
 that life is precious
 
 which is all we poets
 wrapped in our loneliness
 are trying to say

Poems are green and Poetry is mean.
-Poetry Beast

Please accept my endless gratitude,
I'm tickled pink,
You're a gift!
Thank you for your time and attention.
It's a blessing you've stopped to observe and listen.


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