Welcome back to Tuesdays with Nikki. Glad you could make it! Today my Nikki offering is Untitled. As a poet, I have yet to have an untitled piece. In my writing process, the title comes to me AFTER the poem is written. I imagine that as I keep writing, one day I will have an untitled piece. In reality it is not the title, but the content that speaks volumes. So you may need to turn this piece down cause it speaks loudly....
[Untitled]
By Nikki Giovanni
Copyright 1972
there is a hunger
often associated with pain
that you feel
when you look at someone
you used to love and enjoyed
loving and want
to love again
though you know you can't
that gnaws at you
as steadily as a mosquito
some michigan summer
churning his wings
through your window screen
because the real world
made up of baby
clothes to be washed
food to be cooked
lullabies to be sung
smiles to be glowed
hair to be plaited
ribbons to be bowed
coffee to be drunk
books to be read
tears to be cried
loneliness to be borne
says you are a strong woman
and anyway he never thought you'd really miss him
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