what are some poems by nikki giovanni?

Answer 1

Nikki Giovanni has released several poetry compilation books. Here is a list of all of them:
Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement
Blues: For All the Changes
Cotton Candy On A Rainy Day
Love Poems
My House
Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
Re: Creation
Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
The Women and The Men
Those Who Ride The Night Winds

She also has several children's poetry books on the market. Here is a list of those titles:
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems For Young People
Knoxville, Tennessee
Spin a Soft Black Song
The Genie in The Jar
The Sun Is So Quiet
Vacation Time: Poems for Children

If you're looking for just single poems, and not whole books of poetry, I have listed a website (below) with some of her selected works, such as "Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day," and "Choices."

I hope this is what you needed!

Answer 2

Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968).

Black Judgement (1968).

Night Comes Softly (1970).

Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis (1970). Illustrated by Charles Bible.

Re: Creation (1970).

Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971).

Spin a Soft Black Song: Poems for Children (1971). Illustrated by Charles Bible.

In My House (1972).

Dialogue (1973). Foreword by Ida Lewis; Afterword by Orde Coombs. Conversations with James Baldwin.

My House, Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People (1973).

A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker
(1974).

The Women Gather (1975). Broadside.

The Women and the Men (1975).

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978).

Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement (1979).

Vacation Time: Poems for Children (1980).

Those Who Ride the Night Winds (1983).

Sacred Cows and Other Edibles (1988).

Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of

Our Traditions (1994).

Knoxville, Tennessee (1994). Illustrated by Larry Johnson.

Racism 101 (1994). Foreword by Virginia Fowler.

The Genie in the Jar (1996). Illustrated by Chris Raschka.

Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance
Through

Poems (1996). An anthology of Harlem Renaissance ( more or less ) poets with Nikki Giovanni's comments.

The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996).

The Sun is So Quiet: Poems (1996). Illustrated by Ashley Bryan.

Love Poems (1997).

Answer 3

* Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis (1970). Illustrated by Charles Bible.
* The Women Gather (1975). Broadside.
* Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978).
* Sacred Cows and Other Edibles (1988).
* Racism 101 (1994). Foreword by Virginia Fowler.
* Poems (1996). An anthology of Harlem Renaissance
* The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996).
* The Sun is So Quiet: Poems (1996). Illustrated by Ashley Bryan.
* Love Poems (1997).

Answer 4

My favorite is:

Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)

I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad

I sat on the throne
drinking nectar with allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to europe
to cool my thirst
My oldest daughter is nefertiti
the tears from my birth pains
created the nile
I am a beautiful woman

I gazed on the forest and burned
out the sahara desert
with a packet of goat's meat
and a change of clothes
I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift
so swift you can't catch me

For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son hannibal an elephant
He gave me rome for mother's day
My strength flows ever on

My son noah built new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
as we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself and was
jesus
men intone my loving name
All praises All praises
I am the one who would save

I sowed diamonds in my back yard
My bowels deliver uranium
the filings from my fingernails are
semi-precious jewels
On a trip north
I caught a cold and blew
My nose giving oil to the arab world
I am so hip even my errors are correct
I sailed west to reach east and had to round off
the earth as I went
The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
across three continents

I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

I mean...I...can fly
like a bird in the sky...


Some others are:
Poem for Black Boys
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
CHOICES
kidnap poem
Nikki-Rosa
Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)
I'm Not Lonely
Seduction
A Certain Peace
All I Gotta Do
Alone
And Sometimes I Sit
A Poem Of Friendship
A Very Simple Wish
Being & Nothingness
Categories
Charting The Night Winds
Choices
Cotton Candy On A Rainy Day
Crutches
For Saundra
Habits
Her Cruising Car
How Do You Write A Poem?
I'm Not Lonely
Intellectualism
Introspection
I Remember
I Wrote A Good Omelet
Just A New York Poem
Kidnap Poem
Life Cycles
Make Up
My House
No Reservations
Poem
Poem (for EMA)
Poetry
Poetry Is A Trestle
Rain
Revolutionary Dreams
Scrapbooks
Sky Diving
Sometimes
The World Is Not A Pleasant Place To Be
[Untitled]
When I Die
Winter Poem
Woman
Woman Poem
You Came Too

Answer 5

kidnap poem

ever been kidnapped
by a poet
if i were a poet
i'd kidnap you
put you in my phrases and meter
you to jones beach
or maybe coney island
or maybe just to my house
lyric you in lilacs
dash you in the rain
blend into the beach
to complement my see
play the lyre for you
ode you with my love song
anything to win you
wrap you in the red Black green
show you off to mama
yeah if i were a poet i'd kid
nap you

Answer 6

I Wrote A Good Omelet



I wrote a good omelet...and ate a hot poem...
after loving you

Buttoned my car...and drove my coat home...in the
rain...
after loving you

I goed on red...and stopped on green....floating
somewhere in between...
being here and being there...
after loving you

I rolled my bed...turned down my hair...slightly
confused but...I don't care...
Laid out my teeth...and gargled my gown...then I stood
...and laid me down...
to sleep...
after loving you

Answer 7

You Came Too

I came to the crowd seeking friends
I came to the crowd seeking love
I came to the crowd for understanding

I found you

I came to the crowd to weep
I came to the crowd to laugh

You dried my tears
You shared my happiness

I went from the crowd seeking you
I went from the crowd seeking me
I went from the crowd forever

You came, too
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I love Nikki's poetry. I totally love it.
She don't love me cause I am White.
Same accident of birth what made her Black.
I still love Nikki.