Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

Today I'm posting about a book of poetry that I read through every so often.   I first read poems in this book when I was going through a low period years ago, and I found they really spoke to me.  Now, I still like to read through them once in a while just to revisit them in a quiet moment.    I know nikki giovanni wrote these poems a number of years ago (in the introduction, she's referred to as a "woman of the seventies"), but they are so simple as to be timeless.    So, I'm just sharing a little bit today....

Don't look now

I'm fading away

into the gray of my mornings

Or the blues of every night

....

I strangle my words as easily as I do my tears

I stifle my screams as frequently as I flash my smie

    it means nothing

I am cotton candy on a rainy day

    the unrealized dream of an idea unborn

(taken from the poem Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day  p. 21-23)

One of my favorites is the poem Choices (p. 66) .... and this is taken from that ----

if I can't have

what I want             then

my job is to want

what i've got

and be satisfied

that at least there

is something more

to want

I own one copy of this book, but have been known to buy an extra when I see it at a used bookstore and then give it away to a friend.   :)