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This Metaphor

Here is my metaphor Don't touch it now I am a fisherman with a deceptive line I throw back nothing But by clever design I bait and hide the deadly thing Word like a bomb exploding When you shackled my feet You did not undersatand You were walking on oral quicksand My tongue is crucified if you fetter my hands. In a coffle There is no need to negotiate The eleders have left the tree and closed the gate I have no home again I am your fate This metaphor, this oil on water This incubator of fire.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 3/14/2009 9:34:00 AM
Wow. I am blown away by this wicked, amazing awesome poem. that 3rd line - wow, can i relate! I am as well, and most of my poems are so thick with metaphore, the meaning get's lost beneath, but i like it. this way it is what it is, to whomever it needs to be. this is going into my favorites, and so are you. love, Kristin
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