Your stop for the annual poetry fic challenge!

Hi, everyone! The third poet we're revisiting this year is Nikki Giovanni!

If you want a new prompt from her, please comment on this post any time in March, and I'll give you a new one.

If you'd rather take a stab at an old prompt, you can take a look at the original sign up post, or the July Challenge prompts from that year.

I do want to remind everyone that there is permanent amnesty, so post your stories when you finish them!

from once a Lady Told Me

i was very exquisite once very small and well courted
some would say a beauty when my hair was plaited

from We

we were seeing the revolution screeeeeeeeeeeeching
to a halt
trying to find a clever way
to be empty

from Africa I

your mother may be glad to see you
but she may also remember why
you went away

from The Wonder Woman

dreams have a way
of tossing and turning themselves
around

from Poem for Flora

and she would think

i want to be
like that

Sometimes

sometimes
when i wake up
in the morning
and see all the faces
i just can't
breathe

from Ego Tripping

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

from A Poem Off Center

it's a little off center
this life we're leading