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Post by MoonyLuna on Jan 24, 2009 12:27:17 GMT -5
I sing for you Out of tune Off key Forgetting lyrics Remembering longing
I perch On your heart I whisper in your ear
Tiptoeing lightly Across your lashes I steal a kiss
You flick And blink And flick Again
I fly away Leaving my song doo wop doo wop doo wop doo ditty ditty wop
Copyright Nikki Giovanni
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Post by MoonyLuna on Jan 24, 2009 12:28:01 GMT -5
Featured Poet Nikki Giovanni
Poet, activist, mother, and professor, Nikki Giovanni is a three-time NAACP Image Award winner and the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, and holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry. The author of twenty-seven books and a Grammy nominee for The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, she is the University Distinguished Professor/English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, and an Oprah Living Legend
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