A Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy Poem by Nikki Giovanni

A Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

Rating: 3.5


Trees are never felled . . . in summer . . . Not when the fruit . . .
is yet to be borne . . . Never before the promise . . . is fulfilled . . .
Not when their cooling shade . . . has yet to comfort . . .

Yet there are those . . . unheeding of nature . . . indifferent to
ecology . . . ignorant of need . . . who . . . with ax and sharpened
saw . . . would . . . in boots . . . step forth damaging . . .

Not the tree . . . for it falls . . . But those who would . . . in
summer's heat . . . or winter's cold . . . contemplate . . . the
beauty . . .

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Michael Walker 16 January 2020

A subtle analogy between the death of a hero and the tree being felled, its promise unfulfilled. Robert Kennedy still had so much to offer the American people.

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Emma Pincock 08 May 2019

does this have any figurative language in it at all? ?

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Valerie Agyemang 07 April 2018

Was just recently introduced to poetry and yje artist Nikki, I have truly enjoyed.

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Nikki Giovanni

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Knoxville, Tennessee
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