Advice to a Poetry Critic

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Advice to a Poetry Critic

Each poet worth her salt adores
well-appointed metaphors,
but when they step up to the mike,
similes they only like.
Before you discuss simile
consult an expert vis a vis
the difference between the two
so you will never have to rue
mislabeling your imagery.
Hyperbole is not allusion,
so don’t add to the confusion.
Synecdoche to oxymoron––
as you choose what to write more on––
get their names right for your reader.
There’s more to poems than rhyme and meter!

For dVerse Poets we were to make use of simile in a poem.
I fudged a bit and gave instructions as to its proper use!

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  2. Dora's avatarDora

    Making similes — and other imagery — the subject rather than the tool was unexpected given the prompt, Judy, but far be it from me to quibble about a poem as witty as this. Not going to be like THAT kinda critic. Not me. No sirree. 🙂

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