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As the Bombs Drop

We must stop

Thinking literally

Life is a metaphor

Not a fact.

(Previously published in The Hold, Oct.2004)

poem by Laurence Overmire
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The Poem Is A Metaphor/ For Whatever The Poet Needs It To Be

THE POEM IS A METAPHOR / FOR WHATEVER THE POET NEEDS IT TO BE

The Poem is a Metaphor
For whatever the poet needs it to be-
It need not know its own name
Or its destination-
It simply may suddenly appear
And take us to a place we’ve never been,
To a connection we never would have found on our own.

The Metaphor is a vehicle of transport for the Soul
And he who spells it out literally
Grounds it.

Why then oh why is this where we all be?

poem by Shalom Freedman
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Cant Stop Thinking About You

Cant stop thinking about you
Cant stop thinking about you
Its no good living without you
I cant stop thinking about you
Cant stop thinking about you
Cant stop thinking about you
And its no good living without you
I cant stop thinking about you
When the night-time comes around
Daylight has left me, i
I cant take it if I dont see you no more
I cant help it, I need your loving so much more
And I cant stop thinking about you
Cant stop thinking about you
And its no good living without you
I cant stop thinking about
I cant stop thinking about
I cant stop thinking about you, ooh
Cant stop thinking about
Cant stop thinking about
Cant stop thinking about you
When the morning comes around
And the daylight gets to me, i
I cant take it if I dont see you no more
I cant help it, I need your loving so much more
And I cant stop thinking about you, oh yeah
I cant stop thinking about you
And its no good living without you
I cant stop thinking about
I cant stop thinking about
I cant stop thinking about you
I cant stop thinking about
Cant stop thinking about
Cant stop thinking about you
(repeat and fade:)
I cant stop thinking about
I cant stop thinking about
I cant stop thinking about you

song performed by by George Harrison
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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate, learn, discover and invent. But metaphor is a way of thought before it is a way with words.

James Geary in Metaphorically speaking (2009)
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Sand In The Mouth

The hot Earth blisters
Opening to the unwitting tear of
Man’s insensitive hand

The glaciers crack and crumble
Centuries plunging into
Too warm waters

Fish and bird
Too soon entombed in
The rising wave

The frail creatures who
Cannot protest lie
Twitching in the gathering dust

Dry are the bones of
A million lost hopes
Broken in a desert of mind

But bland machines
Continue to grind and shake
Dollars making heroes out of

Plaster and Paris who
Fancy themselves
Immortal.

(Previously published in Gangway, Issue 30-31,2004)

poem by Laurence Overmire
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Why Am I In Love With You?

How is it I am drawn to you?
I can't stop thinking about you.
I can't stop thinking of the moments we shared.
I just can't seem to stop loving you.
How is it your pulling me toward yourself.
What magic do you hold on me.
I only wish you felt the way I feel about you.
But we both know that would never happen.
How is it your smile gets me everytime,
just like your eyes,
your charm,
but what gets me the most is your heart and soul.
How is it all I have to do is look at you and I am yours?
All you have to do is hear your name and I am in love.

poem by Makayla Straight
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How Old?

Ask me my age and I’ll tell you
True

I’m somewhere between

Birth and Death
Are you?

(Previously published in Badosa,2003)

poem by Laurence Overmire
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The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

quote by Richard Dawkins
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Is letting go a metaphor?

what is letting go -
letting go of grief?
the serenity of letting go?
(must be a bad metaphor)
losing represents letting go of control

I need to understand this 'letting go'
is it a metaphor for facing the inevitable?
breathing as a metaphor for living
'the practice of pruning wine vines'
is that a metaphor for letting go?
surrender. reaching towards the future
if you'll excuse another bad metaphor...
'the last of the sand is pouring...'
onion metaphors are stripped down to the core
letting go is a metaphor for acceptance
is acceptance a metaphor for failure?
'The freedom of letting go'
that does sound grand

letting go is not for the faint-hearted
my hands and heart are tired from letting go
so many times over

examine why metaphor is not
a substitute for the literal

letting go is
a metaphor
for goodbye

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poem by Terri Turrell
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The Poem Is A Metaphor

THE POEM IS A METAPHOR

The Poem is a Metaphor
It means ‘the world’
It means ‘all that there is’
It means ‘the soul’
It means ‘our deepest feeling’.

The Poem is a Metaphor
It is more than what it just appears to be
It takes on a life of its own
It says more than it can define itself as

The Poem is a Metaphor
And it itself does not understand
Where it began and how it will end
And whether or not
It should always be rewritten.

The Poem is a Metaphor
And we too are metaphors
That will vanish one day
When all the real Poems
Pretend to still be here.

poem by Shalom Freedman
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Cose Della Vita

Sono umane situazioni
Quei momenti fra di noi
I distacchi ed i ritorni
Da capirci niente poi
Gia come vedi
Sto pensando a te...si...da un po'
They're just human contradictions
Feeling happy feeling sad
These emotional transitions
All the memories we've had
Yes, you know it's true
I just can't stop thinking of you
No I just can't pretend
All the time we spent could die
Wanna feel it again
All the love we felt then
Confinanti di cuore solo che ognuno sta
Dietro gli steccati degli orgogli suoi
Sto pensando a te
Sto pensando a noi
Sono cose della vita
Vanno prese un po' cosi
Some for worse and some for better
But through it all we've come so far
Gia...come vedi
Io sto ancora in piedi perche
Sono umani tutti i sogni miei
Con le mani io li prenderei, si perch
What's life without a dream to hold?
Take my hand and never let me go
It's part of life together
But what future does it hold?
Sono cose della vita
Ma la vita poi dov'e
Yes, you know it's true
I just can't stop thinking of you
Questa notte che passa piano accanto a me
Cerco di affrontarla, afferrarla
If our hearts miss a beat
Or get lost like a ship at sea
I wanna remember, I can never forget
Can't stop thinking of you
Sto pensando a noi
Can't stop thinking of you
Can't stop

song performed by by Tina Turner
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I Want You To

I want to stop talking to you
Just like you stop talking to me

I want to stop seeing you
Just like you stop seeing me

I want to stop thinking of you
Just like you seemed to stop thinking about me

I want to be strong enough to live
My life without you being apart of it

But what I really want is for you
To miss me like I missed you

And I want you to love me
And feel the pain you put me through

Every minute that I ever loved you
That you didn't love me

poem by Beth Ann
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Word to the Latecomer

Life’s too short
Not to start
On time

If your coming
Is not worthy of keeping
To the minute

Then do us a favor
Stay where you are and
Let the rest of us

Proceed
Before the date
Too late, expires.

(Previously published in The Short North Gazette, July 2001)

poem by Laurence Overmire
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Unisex Alco Metaphor

I ain’t no alco you know
I just sometimes take a drink
A drink a drink for a big think
‘Cause I’ve got no G G for a horse
Like
I ain’t no vice president
But the vice presides in me
Don’t worry I’m a nice also metaphor
‘Cause I can stop before I ‘plop’
Into saying something quite smart
Such as
Tequila lemon salt
Guerilla demons halt
Or something quite unique
Such as..er
We’re all those things we aren’t
And not always those things we are
Which is
Quite unisex I think

Should anybody sane be reading this
You might slip into a hush hush thought
Thinking this ‘Socrates’
Is really ‘spoiling the youth’
And the metaphor will stand
Quite defenseless
So just…say nothing.
No comment, please.

poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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For I Am A Metaphor

'For i am a Metaphor

For i am free as a bird

wiser than wise itself

brighter than a sun gama ray

FOR I AM A METAPHOR

for i love like the word

think like einstein

dream like Martin

FOR I AM A METAPHOR

For i smell like success

Achieve like achievers

and soar like number 23

FOR I AM A METAPHOR

for i deliver like mailmen

determine like focus

and prosper like underdogs

FOR I......AM.....A METAPHOR'

By: Kottrell Johnson

poem by Kottrell Johnson
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Love Will Keep Us Together

Love, love will keep us together;
Think of me babe whenever
Some sweet talking guy comes along singing a song --
Don't mess around, you got to be strong,
So Stop, 'cause I really love you,
Stop, I'll be thinking of you --
Look in my heart and let love keep us together.
You, you belong to me now,
Ain't gonna set you free now;
When those guys start hanging around, talking me down,
Hear with your heart and you won't hear a sound.
So stop, 'cause I really love you; stop, I'll be thinking of you --
Look in my heart and let love keep us together, whatever.
Young and beautiful someday your looks will be gone;
Others turn you off who'll be turning you on?
I will, I will, I will
I will be there to share forever;
Love will keep us together.
Said it before and I'll say it again, while others pretend,
I need you now and I'll need you then.
So stop, 'cause I really love you; stop, I'll be thinking of you --
Look in my heart and let love keep us together, oohh
Stop, 'cause I really love you; stop, I'll be thinking of you --
Look in your heart and let love keep us together, whatever.
I will, I will, I will, I will.

song performed by by Nickelback
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In a Poet's Eye

is the reflection
the image of a ghost
haunted by life
love-lorn romantic
the heart cut open
exposed
the flesh peeled away
in layers
words fall
drifting silently
the sad and bitter tears
of a lost embrace…

(Previously published in Bardo Burner, Jan 2000, no.12)

poem by Laurence Overmire
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I hate u...

i hate the fact that u love me.
i hate the fact that u care 4 me.
i hate the way u look at me.
i hate the way u hold me.
i hate the fact that u think about me every mintute of everyday.
but y am i thinking about u right this second?

i hate the fact that i love u.
i hate the fact that i care 4 u.
i hate the way i look at u when ur not looking at me.
i hate that i love the way u hold me.

i hate that i can't stay away from u,
cuz when ur with me u don't know what ur getting ur'self into.

poem by Kerry Rivette
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A layman speaks better

We profess our intelligence
By speaking things,
Rarely without metaphor
And seldom define
What a thing is
Except by saying that
It is something else.
A layman communicates better.
30.12.2004

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Poetry Is A Metaphor

Poetry is a metaphor
For beauty
For deepest feeling
For light
For all kinds of dreams we may not know the name of-

Poetry is a metaphor
For life at its most intense

Poetry is a metaphor for Poetry.

poem by Shalom Freedman
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Cose Della Vita/ Cant Stop Thinking Of You

Duet with eros ramazzotti
(e.ramazzotti/a.cogliati)(english lyrics: t.turner/j.ralston)
Producer: eros ramazzotti
Album: eros (eros ramazzotti)
Sono umane situazioni
Quei momenti fra di noi
I distacchi ed I ritorni
Da capirci niente poi
Gia come vedi
Sto pensando a te...si..da un po
Theyre just human contradictions
Feeling happy feeling sad
These emotional transitions
All the memories weve had
Yes, you know its true
I just cant stop thinking of you
No I just cant pretend
All the time we spent could die
Wanna feel it again
All the love we felt then
Confinanti di cuore solo che ognuno sta
Dietro gli steccati degli orgogli suoi
Sto pensando a te
Sto pensando a noi
Sono cose della vita
Vanno prese un po cosi
Some for worse and some for better
But through it all weve come so far
Gia... come vedi
Io sto ancora in piedi perche
Sono umani tutti I sogni miei
Con le mani io li prenderei, si perch
Whats life without a dream to hold? ?
Take my hand and never let me go
Its part of life together
But what future does it hold? ?
Sono cose della vita
Ma la vita poi dove
Yes, you know its true
I just cant stop thinking of you
Questa notte che passa piano accanto a me
Cerco di affrontarla, afferrarla
If our hearts miss a beat
Or get lost like a ship at sea
I wanna remember, I can never forget
Cant stop thinking of you
Sto pensando a noi
Cant stop thinking of you
Cant stop

song performed by by Tina Turner
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