“Bicycles”
Midnight poems are bicycles
Taking us on safer journeys
Than jets
Quicker journeys
Than walking
But never as beautiful
A journey
As my back
Touching you under the quilt
Midnight poems
Sing a sweet song
Saying everything
Is all right
Everything
Is
Here for us
I reach out
To catch the laughter
The dog thinks
I need a kiss
Bicycles move
With the flow
Of the earth
Like a cloud
So quiet
In the October sky
Like licking ice cream
From a cone
Like knowing you
Will always
Be there
All day long I wait
For the sunset
The first star
The moon rise
I move
To a midnight
Poem
Called
You
Propping
Against
The dangers
Poem by Nikki Giovanni, here she is reading it. Art by Emma Amos, “Sandy and Her Husband”
Nikki Giovanni is my favorite poet. Her poem Ego Trippin’ was the first poem I memorized in 5th grade. Thank you for this. I love the last piece of the video where she says, “I love that.”
Ahh I love that story, Flor!
Hope you’re doing well.
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Soo beautiful <3 It inspired me to order the "Bicylces: Love Poems" collection right away to my local bookstore. I want to read more of this.
Oh yay, happ it inspired you!
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