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things to do on the weekend…
I’m not much for posting on the weekends. I can’t promise I’ll never post on weekends here but mostly I just hang back and work on poems that aren’t working for one reason or another. Meh. They are cakes that maybe taste good but look weird or pies that look perfect and taste like crap. […]
fotos: sunlight…
October 29, 2010
When I was a kid I used to watch the sunlight. I used to believe that the rays of the sun were God’s great fingers reaching in to touch the world. I guess I still believe that, come to think of it. So I look at this photo, taken this crisp fall day out here […]
one thing…
October 28, 2010
This is the only time I’m going to ask you this. Seriously. You see that little button below the post? It says something like “share this” or some such thing. Here’s what I want to ask…we’re all friends here, aren’t we? That’s not the question, that was just a build up to the question. The […]
orthodox…
October 27, 2010
I’ve been watching you for a long time now, you long lived and heavily scented tradition, you. You’re familiar, you see, because of my Catholic roots yet you are completely mysterious. You are someone I have never met yet you feel long lost to me, unavailable, I thought, because well… I’m not Greek…not even close. […]
take and eat…
October 26, 2010
It’s poetry day, friends…this is the latest in a series of poems I’ve got going based upon the first few chapters of Genesis…it’s continuing to follow in the “midrash” tradition. I’m tweaking it still but I like where it dents in and out so to speak well enough to share today: genesis: eat I know […]
missive: soul searching…
October 25, 2010
Dear one, I confess, that the time you caught me staring I was looking into your soul. When your eye found mine I was looking into you. I’m sorry, yes, I was prying. Souls are not shut up tight as many would think, hidden away. What is striking is the color, you know. If it […]
going forward…
October 22, 2010
I am so thankful for all of you. Mrs Metaphor has been a mindful place for me to paddle my ol canoe down this murky stream of consciousness for a few years now. Today I’m reflecting on the good folks who take time to come by and check it out. Thanks for that…it eases my […]
introduction to poetry…
October 21, 2010
Billy Collins is coming to Nashville…he’s a rockstar as poets go, well at least he is to me. If you’ve not read him then you should, cause he’s a rockstar. In this way, let me introduce you: Introduction To Poetry -billy collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the […]
three o’clock crazy…
October 20, 2010
I never was a morning person. I loved the night. I stayed up after everyone else was asleep, relishing the quiet and the dark. There is something lovely about the quiet of the night. I can think at night. It’s addictive this silence. Historically the love of this nighttime has almost been enough to push […]
story of my life…
October 19, 2010
Well, at least it’s the story of my life at the moment: I spent most of the afternoon yesterday cleaning these windows. I love these windows, especially in the morning when the light filters in at a slanty angle. It cuts across the line of trees bordering our property and reaches into these windows each […]
metaphor
from the Latin. metaphora,
from Gk. metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word,
lit. "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).
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