I wish I could dream up a meta-phor or five <br />To keep my poems more poetically alive <br />I will always be known as the poet who's hacking <br />If I continue to write poems metaphorically lacking <br /> <br />Similarly, since I've similies few <br />My poems can be tasteless as cheeseless fondue <br />Literature in meters, we refer to as verse <br />Lacking metaphors or similies, there's nothing much worse <br /> <br />Those figures of speech, though elusively distant <br />Should enter my head if my brain is persistant <br />I'll continue to strive to creatively write <br />Hoping metaphors and similies come into sight<br /><br />Stanley Cooper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/metaphors-and-similies/
