Metaphorically Abhorrent

Metaphorically Abhorrent

 

everything is a damned metaphor

I want to think in literal terms

to see it, paint it in words

as is

 

nothing hidden

nothing fanciful

nothing between the lines

above or below what is written

inside out or outside in

 

it is what it is

not even a simile

could smile my affections

from plain sight

 

everything is a damned metaphor

a figurative trap

I want to free my pen

before it can adapt

to its captivity

 

it is what it is

I am what I am 

unless I,

 

too,

am a metaphor.

 

 

erin-cilberto

11/18/24

Reviews

[redzone]

sometimes all we have is metaphor. People, too may people don't hear us or want to hear us when we speak plainly. I like to think of metaphor as a weapon, a double edged sword that strikes twice. First as a message hidden and then as an edge that draws blood when the metaphor sinks in. But you as a metaphor??!! Never! You use metaphor but as a poet of conscience, someone who sees the world in flames and worries about its direction, Jacob, that's not metaphor, that's reality and plain speaking. In many ways, as poets, we have a responsibility to tell people the truth even if they don't want to hear it. We do this in artistic form with metaphor as one of our tools. And I don't think I'm alone in appreciating how and what you write. Perhaps you could end your poem with, I am what I am, a human(e) being, in love with metaphor.

Curt

[Lorry]

Just when you're looking for less metaphors in your writing, you go trip right over one and only then does it come to you that you may have been the metaphor all along!
So it is what it is and you are what you are, unless you too are a metaphor, in which case, does that mean that it is what it isn't is the case?
Brilliant Jacob. This fair made me smile, which isn't easy when it's minus 3 degrees. My damn cheeks cracked and near shattered!
😃