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Love Poem - Resignation -by Nikki Giovanni
2007-06-30 02:31:00 I love you because the Earth turns round the sun because the North wind blows north sometimes because the Pope is Catholic and most Rabbis Jewish because winters flow into spring... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Success Inspired
Poem 'Choices' by Nikki Giovanni - My interpretation
2007-06-09 16:33:00 The poem 'Choices' by Nikki Giovanni is very beautifully written. The overall impact of the poem is that of reconciliation to whatever life offers. It seems there is only one choice and that is accepting one's fate. But at the end of the poem there is a note of defiance in the cry of a human being. This is the only way a man differs from an animal.The poem presents a very poignant and reality of human lives. We too can identify ourselves with it. Each day, every moment, everytime we have to make a decision we are at crossroads because social constraints weigh heavy upon our minds. So I feel this poem is a cry of a 'imprisoned' human soul.
By: Literary Jewels
Poet Nikki Giovanni at Virginia Tech Convocation
2007-04-18 22:08:00 I've long been a fan of poet and Virginia Tech (VT) professor Nikki Giovanni. She's on my mind today because of her healing words and the ovations she received at the VT convocation, a service held yesterday in memory of Monday's mass shooting by a disturbed young man named "Cho." Thing is, I well know how Nikki Giovanni can move an audience... Because as a child, I was absolutely intrigued -- transported, even -- by her famously vivid and empowering poem, Ego Trippin'.Compellingly delivered atop a music bed of some of the hardest African drumming you've ever heard, Ego Trippin' played in heavy rotation on the radio station I grew up listening to in St. Louis. Whenever Nikki's poem-song began wafting from my radio, I'd turn it up loud to hear her emphatically say:I was born in the CongoI walked to the fertile crescent and builtthe sphinxI designed a pyramid so tough that a starthat only glows every one hundred years fallsinto the center giving divine perfect lightI am bad......
By: South Side Star
Nikki Giovanni @ VT Memorial
2007-04-18 07:04:00 The great words of one of my favorite poets, Nikki Giovanni at the memorial honor those that were lost in the tragic massacre on the campus of Virginia Tech |
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