Poems About: METAPHOR

7 is my life digit
The sum of 3+4
Joy it doth elicit
Christ metaphor read more »

You may think me poetic whore
For opting scribe in metaphor
So angry rants spy-bots ignore
And Feds knocking on my door read more »

It’s said, with “Tongue in cheek” for sure
Truth quite often masked with metaphor
Slipped ‘neath door, by offering mystique
Thereby avoiding retribution and critique read more »

~a book
a survival guide
a collection of poems
and anything conceivable read more »

My metaphor is short for some
But longer for others.
I won’t quite know when I’m finished. You shall have to guess.
It will be expensive, as I am spending time read more »

Metaphor’s the soul of poetry:
this incongruous instrument of speech
with which we say one thing,
when we mean quite another: read more »

A POEM IS A METAPHOR/ ISN’T IT?

A poem is a metaphor
Isn’t it? read more »

a metaphor is easy to make
and so easy to recall

remember the cat's feet like a fog read more »

a metaphor is easy to make
and so easy to recall

remember the cat's feet like a fog read more »

I was born to be a metaphor;
Darwin, embarrassed, did not talk of me;
I did not fit into his scheme of things; I,
knowing secrets of the tears of things, read more »

Simile – what looks like something else –
that’s a fun game for the senses,
for the mind: oh look Dad,
there’s a scarecrow in that field read more »

mon semblable, mon frère
(1)
Our epoch takes a voluptuous satisfaction
In that perspective of the action read more »