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//"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."//

=Ode to the Vibration (Ode)=

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I feel the vibration of the hot pink device move across my bed It reads 6:30 in bright white letters I pick it up and throw it on my dresser Making sure that I don’t I remove the black safety

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I feel the vibration of the hot pink device in my coat pocket I pull it out And it reveals a message I slide it up so carefully, making sure that I don’t remove the black safety Respond And it goes away again

Just about the same routine every day That faithful vibration Means more to me than keeping my alerts private But a wake up call A notifier of love being sent my way Where would I be without it My hot pink device With it’s black safety

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Here we go again…

=Big Brown and The Map (Praise Poem)=

A Nice Day A Clammy car ride A whole bunch family Then 45 minutes later there it was Big Blue Well in our case in Big Brown cause we were in Atlantic City Rushing and running People coming in packs to swim in the cold sandy water But I Stood there At the young of 10, scared to go more than ankle deep in the God knows what invested waters I had always kept my distance when we made the trip Was always a sandcastle kind of girl But this time was different For this time I had come with a group of “explorers” The crazy Side of the family who rode every rollercoaster and didn’t go home until the park closed So me being as impressionable as I was I followed those fools until I was neck deep in Big brown

Almost drowned forgetting that she had big dirty salty mountainous waves But then it I mean he came My Uncle, Derek by birth and his map See on back he has a huge birth mark that resembles the world, he says that’s why he has such good direction But all I know is that, the map became a life boat And that man became a savior

Nikki Giovanni

And I have you
Rain has drops Sun has shine Moon has beams That make you mine Rivers have banks Sands for shores Hearts have heartbeats That make me yours Needles have eyes Though pins may prick Elmer has glue To make things stick Winter has Spring Stockings feet Pepper has mint To make it sweet Teachers have lessons Soup du jour Lawyers sue bad folks Doctors cure All and all This much is true You have me And I have you

- The importance of bonds - Togetherness - All types of Pairs - Showing Love

Love Is
Some people forget that love is tucking you in and kissing you "Good night" no matter how young or old you are Some people don't remember that love is listening and laughing and asking questions no matter what your age Few recognize that love is commitment, responsibility no fun at all unless Love is You and me

- The true meaning of love - Not an average love poem - Things that you don’t always hear about love

Choices
If i can't do what i want to do then my job is to not do what i don't want to do It's not the same thing but it's the best i can do If i can't have what i want. . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want Since i can't go where i need to go. . . then i must. . . go where the signs point through always understanding parallel movement isn't lateral When i can't express what i really feel i practice feeling what i can express and none of it is equal I know but that's why mankind alone among the animals learns to cry

- Being satisfied with what you have - Dealing with not being to do what one wants or feels - Deciding what she must do This pictures represents the poem "Choices" (above) by Nikki Giovanni. I took this picture one weekend when I was in Massachusetts with my family. I was having a horrible time, I saw this light shine through the tree, and I thought it made a cool picture. So all weekend I was taking pictures to pass the time, and I felt that this was me making the best of what I had. And that is what the poem speaks, making thing good the best way I knew how.

These poems all bring out an issue in life that I feel that we all forget, just being be happy about what it's in it not be upset for what's not. It seems like a simple concept at first, but it's always harder to point out the bad than it is to realize the good. So that's when we forget about what we really have. These poems speak of love and the choices of life that we have to make.

In a lot of Nikki Giovanni’s poems she has her own flow. She doesn’t always have to write things out as they “should” but as she feels it she be or how she sees it in her head. That’s is one of the main reasons why I like her, because that is the way I write poetry when I do. It has to be written as I saw it in my head, or it just won’t be mines. But the main thing I always get from her poems, or at least the 3 I have chosen is that the element of love is relevant. No matter what face it may be love is always present in her poems. Ms. Giovanni’s poems always show the importance of relationship. Like in her poem “I’m Not Lonely” she may be speaking of a physical emotion with another person, but the bond she has with herself. That even after she has lost this person in her life, she is not alone. Most if not all of the poems I have come across by her talk about this. Love in every shape. I’m definitely not saying that everything she writes is about love, but she does talk about it a lot. I think that this speaks about what type of writer she wants to come off as. As a poet who is able to connect to a happier part of it’s reader, than a sadder more depressed side.

=Love Isn’t (Riff)= Some people for get that love isn’t Silly games That is made to fool the mind Love isn’t forgetting oneself But simply knowing enough To be able to give it away

People know that love is holding hands and kissing But they seem to for get that it is also pain and tears

Love isn’t building up the other so much That you must tear down yourself in the process Love isn’t proven through sexual readiness But the courtesy to wait

Love is the knowing But at yet you still take that plunge Love isn’t getting scared and running Because of the fear from the road ahead

Love isn’t Prepared But simply given - Inspired by Nikki Giovanni's "Love is"

Statement by My Own Work
As I have began to write and produce my poems, I noticed that they were always about love or expressed a happy emotions. That’s why I chose Nikki Giovanni as my poet, I seem to be able to relate more to her poems. But in the end, after struggle to come up with ideas for my sonnet, making my praise poem actually sound like a poem, and make my ode a little serious, I feel as though I did a good job. I started off writing poetry not in a good place. I had no idea how to truly express an emotion through words, I could not make my reader visualize anything, and worst of all I could not make my writing have a “flow”. Now, I feel like I have grown, my poems may not be the best but they are a great improvement from where I started.

=This Kind of Love (Sonnet)=

I love you, and it it will last until their is no more time on the clock I never felt so good inside I never want these feeling to subside Every thing is so amazing, I never want it to stop

Everything thing with us is new to me Hurt and pain will never come this I knew it from the cardinal kiss We've been through things I could never believe

My life has never been the same since that day Everytime I feel you near There is nothing in mind called fear I will never want to go back to that old way

Our love is more than just a few rhymes For this love is so real we'd need more than a million lines