Poetry

I've been at Rice University all this week for professional development. One thing our leader had us do was disect a specified poem. Until then I hadn't read this one before, and yet it has become my favorite.

So, to do a very Junebug thing, I'm going to pass on this inspirational poem. It's for the women out there who has ever loved and man that she tried desperately to please and be loved by, only to be met by rejection. (By the way, I'm not in this situation right now, but it just makes a girl feel good to read the end.)

Woman, by Nikki Giovanni

"she wanted to be a blade
of grass amid the fileds
but he wouldn't agree
to be the dandelion

she wanted to be a robin singing
through the leaves
but he refused to be
her tree

she spun herself into a web
and looking for a place to rest
turned to him
but he stood straight
declining to be her corner

she tried to be a book
but he wouldn't read

she turned herself into a bulb
but he wouldn't let her grow

she decided to become
a woman
and though he still refused
to be a man
she decided it was all
right"


I have one more day at Rice, and then I leave for NY!!!

Cheers!