Showing posts with label metaphors poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metaphors poetry. Show all posts
Monday, May 27, 2024

Words and more words

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  In the depths of silence Where the words reside A symphony of whispers Waiting to be untied Unspoken dreams dancing in the moonlit...
Monday, April 15, 2024

The mirror of memories

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  In the mosaic of olden days, reflections unfold, The rearview mirror of memories, a tale to be told. Highs and lows painted on the can...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Time passages

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 A song by Al Stewart called Time Passages was playing in the background and these thoughts leapt to my mind. Enjoy. In the tapestry of time...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

All slang is metaphor and each generation has it own

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Imagine life as a vast, ever-changing landscape, and the way you navigate it is through the lens of metaphors – colourful expressions and sy...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

The Road not taken

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 “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is often misunderstood as a poem that celebrates individualism and the idea of forging one’s own path ...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Poetic meditations, on the mystery of dark matter

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Some whimsy to start the weekend with my attempt at a poem about dark matter followed by a poem by Rebecca Anne Wood Elson a Canadian–Americ...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Walks through Victoria BC trails

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My brother has set up a series of videos of his walks through the trails around his hometown,  the city of Victoria, BC, Canada, which are a...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Rainbows

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 I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it. Judy Garland What does it mean to believe in...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

Not

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Not a poem by Erin Hanson Erin is an Australian poet who wrote this in about 2014this is a poem about  self-acceptance and self-love. It is ...
Friday, May 22, 2020

All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry

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All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901) Slang changes as young people define their own me...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Changes

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Today I am responding to another challenge from  Eugenia   at BrewNSpew  Her challenge was to write a five-line poem with the word change...
Monday, October 2, 2017

Pity the Nation

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I came across this poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and I thought I would share, Ferlinghetti is the author of more than thirty books of poet...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Chunk what we learn

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We learn faster if we chunk what we have to learn, I was told the other day. I dance but not well, so I was told that if I wanted to learn ...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Some poetry for a Saturday night

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From  The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni : 1968–1995   Enjoy LOVE IS  Some people forget that love is tucking you in and kissing ...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Poetry on retirement and women

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I ran across an interesting site of  Poems about  retirement and women. The site offers a numer of free  eBook download at   MyBookezzz.or...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Thoughts on a summer day

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"If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper."  - Thich Nhat Hanh from Peace ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The Dancing Center

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A poem by Niki Nirvikalpa The Dancing Center There is only one context, Beyond, beneath; The only context. The One context of...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Nursery Rhymes - Lyrics, Origins & History!

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As my grandson becomes older, I think back to when my son and daughter were young and the Nursery rhymes we used to read to them every night...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Poetry

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While I have done a lot of writing over my career, I have not written a lot of poetry but I am intrigued by this form of writing and perhaps...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

All slang is a metaphor

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All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901) Interesting quote by Chesterton, Something to thin...