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!
Welcome to “The Numbers Game #110. Today’s number is 232.To play along, go to your photos file folder and type the number 232 into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title. This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. (I posted an earlier version, but didn’t include any photos! I hope this one wo
For some reason, WP will not let me add a gallery. See if it works for you!!!
It will only let me enter one photo at a time.
Golden Idols
Untethered tendrils of memory weave through my agenda for the day, sparking wonder as they strike against those walls the modern world prompts us to erect. But too soon, the flame of memory falls to ash as it confronts harsh reality. Dare we renew that faith that led us for so many years through our earlier life? New gods less holy than those of our youth construct golden idols whose weight those who should be our leaders cower beneath. Truth cloaked by greed, too many of our formerly trusted messengers play their game, sending false messages below headlines that label them as News.
The The Sunday Whirl Wordle prompts are: below renew weaves through cloaks holy untethered tendrils gods spark ash wonder
I don’t know why these spilled beads of maple syrup on my napkin at the restaurant intrigued me enough to snap a photo, but they did. Note the little question mark at the top.
For Last on the Card, Jan 31.
When someone throws away your much-depleted but not yet empty bottle of mild Mexican salsa and you’ve just made a (cheese) quesadilla that demands accompaniment, what would you do? I mined the fridge and came up with four possibilities: Thai sweet chili sauce, BBQ sauce, Heinz 57 or Ketchup. This was the closest I could come to a replacement for my favorite salsa. Which would you guess was the winner and why? I’ll tell after you guess.
Cinnamon Woes
When for my yearly physical I went to see my doc,
two cinnamon pills daily were prescribed to me ad hoc.
I had a premonition this solution wouldn’t work,
for prescribing condiments seemed nothing but a quirk.
With no other suggestions, she had me in a bind.
High cholesterol’s no joke. I knew I had to mind.
I put it off ’til evening for it seemed to me so odd
to buy the stuff in capsules to put into my bod.
I took one before bedtime and it caught up in my throat.
The gelatin slowly dissolved. The spice began to bloat.
I had cinnamon reflux. Then I had cinnamon burps.
I swallowed and I swallowed and took water in four slurps.
I coughed three times and tasted cinnamon each time.
I savored not its flavor. Its taste was not sublime.
That throat lump then descended. The pain was near my heart.
Then suddenly that cinnamon was expelled in a fart.
The jar of cinnamon capsules is huge and fully filled.
Tomorrow morn at breakfast, again I should be pilled.
But though I’m not the type to go against the status quo,
from now on I’ll take cinnamon with sugar, rolled in dough.
The Daily Prompt is: Cinnamon.
The challenge for today for Fibbing Friday is:
1. What are florins, tanners and bobs? Different areas in a department store that sell linoleum, beauty products and haircuts
2. What is Dead Man’s Fingers? Numbness in the hands.
3. What killed the Triffids? Their super egos.
4. What’s the difference between a buck and a quid? Bckqid.
5. How much is an old crown worth? It varies, depending on how many jewels it contains.
6. What can be known as a ‘Little Gem’? Anything under half a carat.
7. What is pearl barley? An American actress, singer, comedian and author.
8. Finish the sentence: ‘I came, I saw, I left.
9. Who said ‘Smile, it enhances your face value’? My dentist, after he saw my reaction to the bill he had just handed me.
10. Where on the human body is the zygomatic bone found? It is an area in your skull that is most affected when you over-imbibe in alcohol–causing you to walk in a zigzag pattern.
These are monochrome versions of three paintings by Isidro Xilonzochitl. To see them in color, go HERE.
