Metaphorically Yours

thinking about metaphors and posiblilities..

METAPHORICALLY YOURS

“Nothing is too wonderful to be true-

if it is consistent with the laws of nature.”

~~Michael Faraday

***

In looking at metaphor, poetry 

and reality,

I thought:

I want to look at a metaphor,

see how it wraps around words;

creates fire on my tongue

that burns its desire across your heart.

I want to look at metaphor

from the inside-

take it apart

see the yellows, greens

blues and violets

of its contradiction between fantasy

and reality.

To see how it is often fantasy

that leads to the reality

of knowing you;

of knowing you in all your 

metaphoric glow. 

Or, in your garden

of despair

where only black orchids grow.

***

Sometimes, there is talk

of moon beams reflecting ocean waves;

of shadows wandering forest streams;

of musical symphonies

heard while exploring

the lilies

found blushing from your skin.

***

Other times, it is more touch,

like lips speaking wild flower dreams;

of fingers catching your whispered,

burgundy secrets

that sometimes peek from your heart;

or hands- yours, mine-

discovering the lumps and bumps

of lives held close

yet treading lightly to be seen.

***

My hand is open-

***

Metaphors, alive with 

fantasy’s reality;

alive with reality’s fantasy,

of living along the edge of both,

urging us to look close,

see the possibilities

that exist within the abyss

and leap!

redzone 6.16.14

Author's Note

thanks for reading... thinking about metaphor, friendship and endless possibilities....
I have always loved this song... hope you enjoy listening
captcha: "oarial", maybe but ????

Reviews

[Matching Socks]

You've painted a masterpiece with...

...the yellows, greens, blues and violets
of its contradiction between fantasy and reality.

This was so much fun to read. Fantastic imagery and a feel good vibe.

[Frieda P]

Your poem comes alive on the page Curt, you knew I'd love this one....stellar read. I can't pick a line, since I adored it from the start to grand finale, and even the lines 'tween the spaces! Superb my friend.

100 metaphorical endless possibilities....excuse me, taking a leap!

[redzone]

hmmm is this Frieda's Marilyn, or Marilyn's Frieda leaping here ??? HA!! You know that leap could also find danger... did you see the movie "Hidden Dragon, Fighting Tiger" (if I remember correctly), a kung fu adventure with a love story tucked into the center... she was a young princess trapped to be in an arranged marriage, but she learned hung fu and fled but was captured by an outlaw and then as the story unfolds, falls in love with him because of his independent ways and she wanted to have her own destiny.... but in both the arranged marriage and in the ways loving the outlaw, in either way she could not be free... but in the fantasy of the film there was the myth that if you leaped of this one mountain and believed in the fates, you would find your dreams.. so when the outlaw found her again and asked her to join him she took the leap instead, took the chance even though the abyss was cloud covered and you could not see what was below... she leaped and took her chance for her dreams!!! in many ways it is this leap that I am writing about in this poem... there is both fantasy and reality, there is danger and possibilities, in my opinion it is a leap worth taking... a leap with lines and spaces and sometimes living in between... oh well, "I wanna know what..."

[redzone]

I remember now its "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"...