Nikki Giovanni

I am now getting into a lot of Nikki Giovanni's poetry. It is beautiful. She's got a way with words..I especially like this poem right now:

The Butterfly

those things
which you so laughingly call
hands are in fact two
brown butterflies fluttering
across the pleasure
they give
my body



This poem is short but she does an excellent job of comparing a person's touch with butterflies. I just love it. This is something I would like to do better in my own poetry!

This is Just to Say

This is Just to Say...

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold.

--William Carlos Williams