Best Nikki Giovanni Poems

at fifteen
seeing and
listening
to you in 
Roanoke, VA
in that moment
I knew that's
what I wanted
to do and your
words elemental
thought-provoking
grounding, energizing,
and at times, 
beautifully subtle

and Ms. Giovanni,
if I...

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We may not have the ability to find words
that match the intensity of being in love ~
the overwhelming happiness and emotion
that most of us long...

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(Apropos Of A School-Day Happenstance)

There she stood on the edge 
of the cliff of loneliness—her
tiny eyes staring out into space.

As I cautiously approached her,
I softly...

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N-eatness protocol cleans
I-nvisible dirt of the devil; 
K-illing the pandemic plague
K-eeps one from being
I-ll.

G-et neatness protocol
I-nto the glorious victory; 
O-bliterate the vicious
V-irus of morbid mystery.
A-pply...

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N-ame
I-n
K-een
K-nowledge
I-s

G-ladly
I-mplemented
O-ffering
V-erse
A-bout
N-oble
N-ote's
I-dea

Topic: Birthday of Poetess Nikki Giovanni (June 07) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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It's a Langston Hughes kind of day 
filled with dutiful hints of Robert frost 
within the sudden humor and vague 
eccentricity of Ernest hemmingway 
the...

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