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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=489565" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Search Of Metaphors And Images To Express Yourself In A Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is the expression that matters most.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is the relational flow from the writer to the reader<br>the bond that is created anew, just like an ordinary conversation<br>one fine day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">why can't poetry be simple and direct? that is the question that poetry<br>asks </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to itself, in itself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the poet in us can be lost because of so much demands for the absurd, <br>this metaphor fits, this imagery is perfect, what is it? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you do not accept the sun and the moon and the stars.<br>cliches of their poetry. You do not show compassion for his feelings<br>of being abandoned</div><div style="margin:10px 0">simply because there are no images that tickle your senses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">even if he jumps with joy, you do not relate to his joys<br>simply because the images are bland like <br>burger without the black pepper.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is enough that one bleeds, one wants a listener, one wants to open <br>up to the world<br>Like a bud turning into a flower </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(oh forgive this lousy metaphor<br>i am not a good poet somehow at imaging <br>at imagining. <br>Am not a camera.<br> My eyes are clumsy at details.<br>And my ears are not sensitive to sound of <br>beautiful words. They even hide behind my head under my hair.<br>And there is no compulsion for high highfalutin<br>Ivory towers of similes from the gods and goddesses of<br>Literature) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why can't poetry be just an expression? Just that. A dialogue.<br>This one, this monologue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is enough that you write from the heart.<br>It is enough that you are true </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(oh forgive me, can i be really<br>true to you? Do i have to be naked and tell you that i am beautiful? <br>Do i have to master the art of metaphorisms<br>to be your poet<br>for the night?) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or is it that poetry is simply our hiding place<br>From this world of pain? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or our chapel for our prayers<br>Or our playground where we can be children again? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am tired of squeezing my brain in the quest of the perfect metaphor.<br>I have read what they have written.<br>I pretend i like them. They sound so well.<br>They must be poetry. Real poetry<br>Those that garner plaques.<br>Prizes from the jury.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Honestly, I do not understand a thing. Those poems of my idols.<br>But I read them just the same.<br>Hoping that I am in and be counted as one of the stars in those<br>Metaphoric Heavens.I watch every meteor that drops <br>to the ground. Their tails.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not a star. I am just a pebble. <br>And it is enough for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem says, just write me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't squeeze your brain to have metaphors<br>To draw the images.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just be yourself, and for God's sake if you have something to say<br>Just say it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q>
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it is the relational flow from the writer to the reader
the bond that is created anew, just like an ordinary conversation
one fine day.

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