Showing posts with label metaphor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metaphor. Show all posts
Thursday, September 03, 2026

WINNER OF THE INVERTEBRATE OF THE YEAR 2026

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by   Angela Sucich  A neon green solar-powered slug that lives underwater is the winner of the increasingly popular Invertebrate of  the Yea...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

STARGAZING NOTES

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by  Dan Overgaard Erupting star, incinerating star: the likes of which has never been observed  or measured in our skies—oh yes! we are  obs...
Monday, January 12, 2026

AUBADES FOR WOMEN LOST

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by Andrena Zawinski “Aubade,” 1942 by Pablo Picasso So— ( An Aubade for a Woman Lost So he gave her a pearl handled gun, its skull and cross...
Monday, March 25, 2024

GOODBYE, KYIV

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by  Donald Sellitti Goodbye, Kyiv and thank you for the chance to stand in solidarity with you at safe remove to write of you with passion a...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

PERFECT PORTRAIT

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by David Radavich Sometimes metaphors are too perfect for words:   Police in riot gear standing in a school hallway in Uvalde, Texas        ...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

PLANTING TIME IN UKRAINE

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by Anne Harding Woodworth A crucial portion of the world’s wheat, corn and barley is trapped in Russia and Ukraine because of the war. Credi...
Thursday, April 01, 2021

EVER GIVEN

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by Kat Frabotta “Ever Given” by DaveRiver at Deviant Art . She trudged on, steered towards Rotterdam The captain’s son called him. Something...
Friday, February 26, 2021

THE AMERICAN VARIANT

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by Pepper Trail It has always circulated among us We know that, and we know Mutations happen all the time So what makes this so virulent So ...
Tuesday, November 03, 2020

I CHECK THE POLLS AT 5 AM

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by  Katherine Smith I rise in the dark to check the last polls, then wait for light to shine through   gold-green leaves before I lace my sh...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

DENIAL

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by Joanne Kennedy Frazer Dying Sunflower  is a photograph by Robert Ullmann The huge       yellow-orange sunflower      once showy    & ...
Monday, August 17, 2020

THE PROBLEM OF ERASING THE WIRING IN THIS HOUSE

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by Frederick Charles Melancon Artwork source: Vox We rip out the old lines. Fragments of bright copper shine on concrete still t...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

DOWN ON BENDED KNEE

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by Sari Grandstaff Sari Grandstaff is a high school librarian in the Catskill Mountains/Mid-Hudson Valley of New York State. Her po...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

JEALOUS GODS

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by Devon Balwit             for Mary Oliver 1935-2019 This morning, the world mirrors rather than mocks, fog-shrouded, pines dif...
Monday, March 20, 2017

METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING

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by Howie Good via GIPHY Pushing again and again as though intending to lift the cumulative weight of heartache, just the very, ve...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

WORLD SERIES

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by Richard Marx Weinraub Baseball is a metaphor for life. The pitcher and catcher—the rubber and cage— play out as a sadomasochis...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

BRIEF SONNET FOR SNOOPS

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by Jen Karetnick Image credit: mjak / 123RF Stock Photo The government is reading my emails, they say. I wish they’d read my poems ...
Monday, October 29, 2012

CHAMBERED NAUTILUS REVISITED

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by Mary Cresswell            after Oliver Wendell Holmes Image source: Carnivoraforum This is the ship of state swimming backward...