THUS SAID HORATIO
There is a fair measure in things
there is a middle ground in everything
there must be order even in the mess
est modus in rebus...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, perspective, truth,
Form: Epigram
Categories:
allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Footle
Categories:
allusion, analogy, health, perspective,
Form: Footle
SAPPED ROOTED SOULSWith our soul’s valleys
watered with God’s wet spirit,
and his healing love,
be as trees of divine sap
sagely rooted in his work:-
...
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Categories:
analogy, encouraging, faith, god,
Form: Tanka
TO BEING ON BOARDTO BEING ON BOARD *
I can remember when
It was blackboards,
Which have been replaced
By their whiteboards;
Loaded with selective
Brainwashing videos:
Primarily coded to entertain
Rather than educate;
Particularly, if you’ve not chosen
Teaching as a labor of love:-
When asked how could I, at 83,
Teach without a whiteboard,
I simply replied that I was
A live retired living blackboard:
Programmed by...
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Categories:
allegory, america, analogy, black
Form: Prose
DEEP BLACK THOUGHTSDEEP BLACK THOUGHTS *
(Apropos Of Civil Disobedience)
Majority rules;
civil disobedience
is for whites only:-
Civil disobedience—
rights of the majority;
not of lesser Blacks:-
Not being a Black,
Thoreau claimed rights to civil
disobedience:-
Now, episodes
daily praise Whites for civil
disobedience:-
We Blacks remain dared
to be disobedient;
claiming civil rights!
We’ve won civil rights;
let’s continue in oneness—
beating their divide:-
In the...
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Senryu
Shape Of VoiceAvoid their stares.
Listen to their words.
Do they care?
Neglect your needs.
Don't socialize.
Hate yourself.
Empathize.
Empathize with
everybody except
yourself.
No!
Lies!
Forgive!
And love yourself!
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Categories:
absence, abuse, addiction, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Soul-Trapping Mirrorsamid muck and mire of a storm swamp
~ shadows dance below chartreuse skies
mirrors labyrinth stifles our souls quest;
holding reflections of lovelorn dreams,
maxims and myths that fall may wreck hearts
...and hope blooms as a fuchsia rose under rain;
where valiant words weave in the wind
~ skirmishing to stave off light catharsis,
a guiding star illuminates raw pathways;
In the mirror, viewing my...
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Categories:
analogy, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Ode to the Mirrorshe used to shrink
inside her own skin
wore doubt like a coat
stitched too thin
but broken glass
still reflects the light
and jagged edges
sharpen the fight
now she stands
where my fears once laid
building worth
from the cracks they made
she is gold in the dirt
still gleaming unseen
an unfinished masterpiece
bold and serene...
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Categories:
analogy, courage, imagination, love,
Form: Ode
OF LIFE AND ROSESOF LIFE AND ROSES
Life is like a rose;
it has its thorns, as well as
sweet petaling days:-
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, day, hyperbole,
Form: Haiku
OF WE TOOTHPICKS AND RAKESPicking and raking,
Cleaning the political
Garden of Evil,
Know that while gardeners die,
Rooting out trash must go on:-
...
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Categories:
allegory, america, analogy, encouraging,
Form: Tanka
D Y S T O P I A[Perhaps this is apart of my twisted delusions? Oh, mundane, antithetical, to dream of a median--a deranged, psychotic thought.]
[“I ponder the chains of order; perpetually asphyxiating a ‘disobedience’. Why, why we need of persecuting the good?”]
[Malice subsumes those who yet to temper, and sorrow enshrouds those refined. Crux, crux, I call to, whom ignore my...
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Categories:
analogy, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Dinner BellThe sun will shine,
The moon will rise.
The nights will always glimmer.
The birds will fly,
The bugs will glide,
The people will hide for winter.
Everyday subsidies,
Everyday I survived,
I still don’t feel like a winner.
All the plates will be shined,
All the guests get invites,
But I’ll still eat alone for...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Purple Dreams In Other Realms
Written: April 24, 2025, for Contest sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose
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Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see
dressed in a fantastical dress with two dappled wings of lace,
she shone like the midnight sun;...
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Categories:
analogy, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Ant On A LogOnce there was a log
Floating downstream
On a swift-flowing river
Towards a sawmill.
And, on that log,
Perched on a loose patch of bark,
Behind a broken limb,
There was an ant.
The ant didn’t know about the sawmill.
He did not hear the rushing water.
He couldn’t tell the size of the log,
Or perceive the danger he was in.
On that piece of bark,...
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Analogy Poems
Definition | What is Analogy in Poetry?
Poems Related to Analogy
comparison, metaphor, parallel, correlation, correspondence, similitude, semblance, likeness, relationship, simile, equivalence, alikeness, affinity, resemblance, relation, homology,