Blogs about: Extended Metaphor
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The Things I'm not going to tell you.
This is not like cooking. Or interior decorating. It is like snake handling… or nuclear power plant management. It is not something to be dabbled with, flirted with, or trifled with. It is not… more →
Jeff's deep thoughts
Poetry Exercise For Those "At Sea"
manicddaily wrote 1 month ago: Yesterday, I set forth the rules for a somewhat reductive poetry exercise for the inspirationally-ch … more →
Bits and Pieces
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Beth wrote 1 month ago: I am, by nature, a snippet writer. I write things out of order, with half-baked scenes thrust onto p … more →
Flowers
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Mango wrote 4 months ago: So today when I was trotting Shady (I love him <3), I saw a flower in the dirt. It was a really p … more →
The Shock Doctrine and the Power of Extended Metaphor
allanmcdougall wrote 5 months ago: I think one of the most beautifully rendered, extended allegories of 2008 was Naomi Klein’s The Shoc … more →
The Things I'm not going to tell you.
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jeffsdeepthoughts wrote 7 months ago: This is not like cooking. Or interior decorating. It is like snake handling… or nuclear power … more →
Vermont Poetry Newsletter January 27, 2009
upinvermont wrote 10 months ago: [Reposted here as published by Ron Lewis.] Vermont Poetry Newsletter Your Poetry & Spoken Word G … more →
laura leaf
lauramars21 wrote 10 months ago: like the wings of an emerald butterfly i am a leaf perched atop a rough and unsteady branch swishing … more →
MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE Revisited
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Faye Quam Heimerl wrote 11 months ago: Dear Reader, I just reread Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (1947). The first time I read i … more →
Reflections inspired by Eckhart Tolle: 1
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Roger wrote 1 year ago: Could we experience stillness, oneness and Self without brain, mind and concepts! Perhaps arguing wi … more →
Extended Metaphor
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1sojournal wrote 1 year ago: My last blog, the story of the little seed, was an extended metaphor. A metaphor is a comparison of … more →
Reign
sniction wrote 1 year ago: The rain fell sporadically throughout the day, covering everything with a fine and constant sheen. … more →
A hot button topic.
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jeffsdeepthoughts wrote 1 year ago: The hot-button mentioned in the title isn’t like abortion or immigration of the presidential e … more →
"When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?" - Montaigne
novelistkat wrote 1 year ago: I promised concrete. A Study in Hail Cascading minutes I recall, like frozen rain, Each drop descend … more →
Evidence of a new spirit
newevidence wrote 1 year ago: Welcome! This particular blog is filled with both poetry, written in free verse style, and short sto … more →
The accordian
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jeffsdeepthoughts wrote 1 year ago: I am no great lover of the accordian. If you forced me to sum up my feelings about the thing into … more →
The MacBeth's Washing Machine
jeffsdeepthoughts wrote 2 years ago: Wooshtup. Wooshtup. Wooshtup. You out-of-balance washing machine, You agitated agitator. You, you co … more →
The Ineviabality of Cannibalism
jeffsdeepthoughts wrote 2 years ago: It is not a bodily consumption that I am engaged in it is something subtle insidious universal built … more →
Prosthetic Love
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Clattery MacHinery wrote 3 years ago: _____ … more →
