Morgan+Marant

"Words written in verse may speak volumes when those spoken do not." -Caressia Combs

__Cliché Romance Sonnet__

Sleep now, he said I shook my head no, need Dreams I will have will only be of you He chuckled hard for it was done the deed He knew captured was I by thought a knew The might of an arrow struck me down slow Cherubs of jealousy prod my conscience They work for him those demon childs of woe To bring turmoil and more classic nonsense Shakespeare wrote of the folly many times Call me crazy but it seems to me Insane and brave was the climb To recognize my own privy marquis In the simplest terms I can say, agape For it was pure love in my french crepe

__Raised by a Mother__ I was raise by an altruistic judgmental humourous hard-working and goal acheiving "Play the violin, those Asians are getting all the credit." Kind of mother

Some 5'11, olive tone Hair no higher then a millimeter Independent black Jamie Lee Curtis "I can give you everything, but what kind of mother is that?" Type of mother

Some embarrassing, caressing natural leader & divorcee Hot head "Monday and Thursdays are half off for over 40 divorcees night." Kind of Mother

I WAS RAISED BY A MOTHER

__Ode To my Ancestors__ To the mother who bore, raised and loved the children of her rapist To the woman who survived a fifteen week passage in a fetal position To the man whose spirit was stolen with iron shackles To the child who clung to his mother’s breast so they wouldn’t be torn apart To my ancestors who endured 400 years of bondage, servitude and oppression To the Life you gave me, and to the freedom I don’t deserve

__**Life as We Know It**__ Morgan Marant

Life as we understand today Reveals covered emotions Through Twittering away And unleashing anger through Facebook notions

Instead of dating We’ll video chat And talk about waiting For a change through texting back

To express feelings We use emoticons To show caring We ask what time you will be on

With an expanding world such as this Are we losing touch in body communication When will letters written not end up as a diss Or some other type of abomination

So my message to you Don’t lose who you are From a world a knew Be that one single changing star

Most of my poems are written in free form. Often times I do use a simple A, B rhyme scheme. In most of my poems I attempt to go deeper then what’s generally on the surface. All of my poems are written in a newer age, contemporary language. I also use a lot of describing adjectives. My line length varies. In the Ode Poem, the lines were close to same length line. Also I noticed that most of my lines are started with a capitalized letter but I never use a period. Also I don’t usually use commas or semi-colons. “ With an expanding world such as this Are we losing touch in body communication When will letters written not end up as a diss Or some other type of abomination” This is from the “Life as We Know It” poem that I wrote about social networking sites. I use a lot of enjambments in my poetry. When writing my poetry I use a thesaurus so I won’t end up repeating words. Also thesaurus’ help me in my word choice, they help me to choose very descriptive words that will work in my poetry. Also when writing poetry I don’t consider the use of syllables, that’s only when a set form calls for syllables. “Cherubs of jealousy prod my conscience” This quote is from my “Cliché Romance Sonnet” poem. In this poem I follow the Shakesperian Sonnet form. I enjoy using language that examines the mind of a person. I like for when people read my poetry to relate it back to their own lives. I attempt to trigger the senses when I write poetry.
 * __Poetry Statement:__**

My Poet of Choice Nikki Giovanni

**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

**__I Wrote A Good Omelet Analysis__** In Nikki Giovanni’s “I Wrote A Good Omelet” she uses internal rhyme and ellipsis to create sense of euphoria. The poem is slow and contains several opposites to exhibit how jumbled her thoughts are. Buttoned my car...and drove my coat home... There is a pattern of opposites and the phrases that would be used to describe something else, they were switched. It seems that from the tone in which she uses to create this poem, it was not that her and the lover broke up. It seems that she and the reader has just had some sort of intercourse and she left her house.

Poem for Black Boys by Nikki Giovanni

Where are your heroes, my little Black ones  You are the Indian you so disdainfully shoot  Not the big bad sheriff on his faggoty white horse You should play run-away-slave  or Mau Mau  These are more in line with your history Ask your mothers for a Rap Brown gun  Santa just may comply if you wish hard enough  Ask for CULLARD instead of Monopoly  DO NOT SIT IN DO NOT FOLLOW KING  GO DIRECTLY TO THE STREETS <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This is a game you can win <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; 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background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> These are useful games (some say a skill is even learned) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is a new game I must tell you of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It’s called Catch the Leader Lying <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (and knowing your sense of the absurd <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; 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background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a special kit for little boys <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> called Burn Baby <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> I’m told it has full instructions on how to siphon gas <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and fill a bottle <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; 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font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> from a lecherous dog <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And this poem I give is worth much more <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> than any nickel bag <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> or ten cent toy <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> And you will understand all too soon <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> That you, my children of battle, are your heroes <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> You must invent your own games and teach us old ones <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> how to play

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0in;">__Poem for Black Boys Analysis__ <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0in;">Nikki Giovanni’s “Poem for Black Boys” was written during the Harlem Renaissance. Written in free form, with no rhyme scheme but a complex system of theoretical lines, it conveys the image of a child’s disoriented innocence. The tone of the poem alternates between solemn and somewhat apathetic. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0in;">//“There is a new game I must tell you of// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0in;">//It’s called Catch the Leader Lying”// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0in;">The speaker uses naive childhood games to describe how they can skew the view of what life is really like as a young black male. The line breaks in the poem emphasize that the speaker is wiser then the reader. She also often switches back and forth between serious and innocent topics. Nikki frequently questions the reader to make them question the meaning of the things around them. At the end of the poem she writes that the children must create new games. The tone of this poem appears to be one about how the seemingly wiser person is lecturing a younger reader. But in the end it seems that the younger reader must be the astute one and teach the wiser person.

"I'm not Lonely" by Nikki Giovanni

I'm not lonely sleeping all alone you think i'm scared but i'm a big girl i don't cry or anything

I have a great big bed to roll around in and lots of space and i don't dream bad dreams like i used to have that you were leaving me anymore

Now that you're gone i don't dream and no matter what you think i'm not lonely sleeping all alone

**__I’m Not Lonely Analysis__** The poem “I’m Not Lonely” is written in the form of free flow poetry. A few lines do rhyme but there doesn’t seem to be a rhyme scheme. Each stanza begins with a capital letter but there are no periods. There is a contemporary language used in this poem even though it was written in the 1960’s. Within the poem the writer attempts to convince the reader and herself that she is not lonely. The lines in the poem are pretty short and stacked together. The give the image of strength and fulfillment. So the poem shows her personality as if she’s putting up a front against being lonely. On the inside she misses the person.