For Poetry Month 2014, I'm searching for metaphors and similes. Join me! Here's a bit more on this month's project.
April 19TISSUE metaphor
I have a cold today. Probably because I was wrestling with the Beast yesterday
(see yesterday’s post).
What’s a metaphor for having a cold? Â Hmmm…
An invasion…my body’s been taken over by the enemy?
A wet, windy day…on the day I’d planned a picnic?
A smashed banana? Â That’s how I feel right now.
Or…can you spot the metaphor in the following rough draft
(which is also a mask poem and which includes personification)?
FLU
Day wakes up and stretches
her long, lean sunlit arms
Be gone! I close the curtains
for I’m glob of germs
and neither Day’s light laughter
nor her cloud-free charms
can change that I’m a tissue
all wadded up and gross
I’m full of yuck and—achoo!
I’m warning: don’t come close.
What’s the metaphor that defines YOUR day?
poem © 2014 April Halprin Wayland. All rights reserved
3 Responses to “TISSUE metaphor”
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- Blog entries
- April 30
WHAT’S A METAPHOR FOR AGING, I ASK MY 91-YEAR-OLD MOTHER - April 29
BATHING OUR DOG metaphor & simile - April 28
CLUTTER metaphor - April 27
DOORBELL metaphor - April 26
RASPBERRIES metaphor - April 25
WALKING TO THE OCEAN metaphor - April 24
DOG AND MASTER metaphor - April 23
POMEGRANATE SEEDS metaphor - April 22
FENCE simile - April 21
CROW simile - April 20
VIOLIN/BIRD metaphor - April 19
TISSUE metaphor - April 18
BEAST metaphor - April 17
SNAKE metaphor - April 16
CANDLE metaphor - April 15
SHATTERED GLASS metaphor - April 14
MY MAMA’S TEETH metaphor - April 13
EYEGLASSES metaphor - April 12
COMPOST BIN metaphor - April 11
STAGNANT WATER metaphor - April 10
A WASHING OF HANDS metaphor - April 9
DIGGING DOG simile - April 8
BIRDS metaphor - April 7
SHAMPOOING simile - April 6
LAYER CAKE metaphor - April 5
WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING AT? simile - April 4
FLAG metaphor - April 3
MORNING GLORY simile - April 2
WHITEWASHING WALNUT TREES metaphor - April 1
TANGERINE metaphor
A lot of people don’t know what a methaphore is.
So sorry you’ve been feeling bad. You did a wonderful job with your poem! I really like your description of Day (“neither Day’s light laughter
nor her cloud-free charms”). Nice ending, too.
Dear HypeFilez,
Thanks for coming by.
Just go to
http://www.aprilwayland.com/poetry/2014-poetry-month/
for a definition.