Those...Who Ride...The Ellipses

April Penn is the first...multiple interactor to meet....all their deadlines...mainly because...April is awesome...here she uses haiku to tackle...Nikki Giovanni's ellipses addiction. 

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Reader Response Haiku
(Responding to Those Who Ride the Night Winds by Nikki Giovanni)
April Penn

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Why the ellipses?
Are they the uncharted path
of riding night winds?

Ellipses, leaving
room for air and for lost words
needing new worlds.

Why the ellipses?
To move close to the body,
to refrain losses?

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To select the scraps,
the poet muses with time,
quilting lived garments.

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You do not love wrong
or by mistake, always love,
find heroes in self.

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Colored people couldn’t vote… couldn’t use the bathroom in public places… couldn’t go to the same library they paid taxes for… had to sit on the back of the buses… couldn’t live places… work places… go to movies… amusement parks…  Nothing if you were colored … Just signs … always signs … saying No … No … No…  (From “Harvest (for Rosa Parks)”)

The sign that says no
Everywhere no no no no--
racist exclusion.

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Love should change your life.
Move you beyond the boundary
of your stubborn self.

Giovanni says,
Love Thoughts like a song, a drum,
a music in you.

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A good writing prompt:
Begin with, “You were gone like…”
then fail to compare.

Champion of the joy
that cries out lonely, someone
to sing for, to love.

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