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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460120" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the steps of Rumi 88: Metaphor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Simile – what looks like something else –<br>that’s a fun game for the senses, <br>for the mind: oh look Dad, <br>there’s a scarecrow in that field<br>that looks just like a man, does it<br>really scare crows? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh look Dad, there’s a beggar in the street<br>who looks just like a scarecrow, <br>I wonder if the same crows<br>see him too? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But metaphor – ah, that’s something else: <br>explanations don’t quite explain it: <br>you see something; it brings to mind<br>something very different; maybe<br>you just forget it, pass on; maybe<br>you’re a poet, and you think, <br>that other thing casts a subtle light<br>on this first thing, I’ll see if others<br>find the same.. and, sometimes they do, <br>sometimes they don’t… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Metaphor brings the whole universe, <br>world upon world, to the mind: <br>you could write a poem full of metaphor<br>as long as the circumference of the world, <br>and when you’d written it out, you’d find yourself<br>right here again just where you were.. but<br>what a lot you’d seen on the way…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We’re so used to some metaphors<br>because by now, they’re shared, <br>written into language (lucky the people<br>who inherit languages such as these, <br>they’re born into poetry…) : </div><div style="margin:10px 0">take ‘bread’: you walk past the baker’s shop<br>in the early morning when the air is clear –<br>or better, go in to buy your breakfast rolls: <br>the smell couldn’t be more wonderful, <br>more promising.. the bread’s so delicious, <br>and best eaten today..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ah yes, ‘daily bread’ – that becomes a metaphor<br>for all that each and every day brings –<br>waking up, new thoughts, new experiences, <br>all that brings life to life…<br>that covers so many subtle things…<br>where does it all come from? <br>that’s for you to say…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes it seems that the whole world<br>is a metaphor for something…<br>for what? For its own unity, <br>for its very creation, <br>for that which we call God, <br>for our very self? <br>that’s for you to say…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Metaphor. When you meet it, <br>does it make you think of<br>English class, another boring<br>poem, another boring question<br>to answer as you chew your pen –<br>‘What does the poet mean when<br>he speaks of, lies like oyster shells<br>to be penknifed for their pearls? ’…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or - does it fill your heart with joy<br>as if someone had given you<br>a golden key to a secret garden<br>which is all you ever hoped for; <br>more than you could ever imagine…<br>and yet you recognise<br>it’s all really just yourself? …</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the corner of your room<br>there's a little girl curled up<br>in a large armchair, reading a book.<br>Don't disturb her.<br>The book she reads with all her self today, <br>may never read again, doesn't need to -<br>is a metaphor for<br>all she needs to know today<br>about the world, about herself; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">she finishes the book, <br>closes it thoughtfully, <br>looks up at you; <br>she knows herself<br>a little more today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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