getting started
hi guys,
I need some help. I have been mulling over an idea that keeps swimming about in my head that needs exposure, but I need a metaphor for our disease other than "the beast that devours".
I really want to write about how cancer "devoured" 3 of my friends and is making its mark on another as we speak but I would appreciate a leg up with this metaphor.
If you can help with a starting point, I will have a crack at a poem. (The first after 35 years). The glass half full side of cancer prompting me to write again?!
Thanks for your wisdom and creativity,
Samex
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Re: getting started
Ah Sailor,
You have a much greater gift than I methinks but I will struggle on. I take heart from the positive images as well. Lots of daffodils tomorrow!
Thanks, Samex
Re: getting started
I put something like this in response yesterday morning. When I tried to save it it vanished into internet oblivion. I don't think this is as good as the original.
Life is a metaphor
Comparing,
Contrasting,
Nouns, to make -
Rhetorical meaning.
Mixing metaphors
Is fun!
Cancer has metaphors -
Devouring Beast,
Daffodil blooming
With the image of
New life,
Relay
And the passing on
Of the Baton.
It has Euphemisms -
Spanish Dancer,
The big C,
Fear, of even stating
What it is with the
Shadow and Beast
Within.
It is surrounded
By images.
Of light -
Bright, clinical, clean, sterile.
Of care -
Gentle, human, touch, support.
Of Life -
Joy, hope, gift, exuberance.
Of Death -
Lament, grief, sorrow, farewell.
Images and metaphors
Mix them up and
Have fun.
Sailor
It's out there at sea that you are really yourself. Vito Dumas
Re: getting started
Please take a number and sit down. Business will recommence on Monday at 9.00am. If you choose to stay you can get a good cheap sleeping bag at the camping store down the mall to the left.
Should you require a more urgent consultation I'd suggest contacting the expressive writing group because they're probably going to be up all night writing. And they watch these posts like hawks anyway. Up to the top and over to the right.
H