Tag: Nikki Grimes

Metaphor

Unti­tled Pen in hand,I tend a gar­den of lan­guage,weed out words of hate and divi­sion,plant heal­ing nouns, verbs, adjec­tivesburst­ing with col­or,and water them all with my tears.Before you know it,metaphors bloom with mean­ing. © 2017 by Nik­ki Grimes Metaphor is my absolute favorite poet­ic device of all. I have always rel­ished the idea of paint­ing […]