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I Have Metaphors I Keep Using Whenever I Try To Be Original

I Have Metaphors I Keep Using Whenever I Try To Be Original


i get the hives when my mind Zens in on a brand Knew.
my Ottoman Empire is a footstool in a plush Rumor.
at rest in the best humor that genius can buy for a Yen
when the Yang is an awkward ruby.
i steal from the vaults of a common supernatural
with all the aplomb of a minnow in a mouth.
sleeping on the hillocks of a rust moon 
acned with meteor kiss and fierce serenities
the width of Space between notes
in a deanument.
then poetry assumes i have something to say.
only then does it open to the introversion
of my extraverted inner Hermit.
I leap out of conch shells
on some kind of fire
that slakes a thirst.
i knit wings to eyes
and abandon every photon
to my Will.
then 
I have metaphors I keep using 
whenever I try to be Original-
and i meta-criticize the artifice
of my chosen pearls.
but seldom do I confess it.
the unseemly devices I am left too.
as my Id designs the Ego
of my Indomitable Heart
with the schematics 
of my Lost Architect
unhumbled by my Illusions
having spun such webs
as to conquer a Fool
and his Guesses.
I eat stone wheat and the wet essence 
of dry zephyrs on sea errands
to blanch dunes 
to Beau Geste.
i consume the ridiculous hubris
of my epileptic Angels
and squander no opaque verse
to tadpole.
 
 I Swim In A Yes That A No Dreamt Of

like a ferret 
in a healing
scar.
 

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The fish of the sea

Smashing poem. Aboutsulty amazing, this one definitely took some thought. Kind regards. The Fish of the Sea

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Yiyan Han

Metaphors are good to use if their meanings are popularly known/defined. My 2c.

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Tony Taylor

Big Smiles!!.....YOU are a poetic TRIP brother!!......LOVE IT!!........More Smiles!!........ALL STARS!! & PINNED!!.......LOVE & ROCKETS!!.....T xo  : )

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