Short Figurative Language Poems

This mind looks for a picture,
thinking of mental image
as well as the deep structure
of figurative language.






Note: This form is called Tanaga, a traditional short Filipino poem which is only a quatrain, having 7 syllables in each line. The rhyming schemes may be aaaa, aabb, abab or abba....

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Easter of the Resurrection of Christ

Protestants were supposedly persecuted
for their faith, 
so they left England.
In America they annihilated Natives

and in their protest
they abandoned Christ 
for Rabbit and the egg hunt,
as if rabbits were egg-laying.

They are falsifying the history
and falsifying reality,
distorting figurative language
and rhetorical figures....

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