Mixed Metaphors, Give this one a try! Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi    everyone!

Here's a new one to try:

Write a poem, or essay, diary entry or short story and incorporate these mixed metaphors into your piece.

a cradle of hunger

a fistful of antipathy

a saddle of yearning

a slice of silver

a mile of tears


Good luck!

~Cleo  

Added more mixed metaphors today: (round 2 anyone?)

a bowl of solace

a saucer of smoothness

a sliver of hunger

a purse of tears

a chest of light

[Guest__*]

PARADISE LOST, and MILTON
(sadly, also a UK brand of nappy-wash liquid)

Itching under a saddle of yearning,
we are as ridden to our fearful fate;

rather than trudge a mile of tears,
we take the short way, to your room,

where a slice of silver hope
briefly turns into orgasmic golden ecstasy,

resulting in a cradle of hunger squalling,
rocking to a day versus night beat all its own,

and, although you’ve got to love ’em
and bless ’em (and you do), you do so too,

with a fistful of antipathy
to buckets of unmentionable smells .....

Alan McAlpine Douglas

PS The best mixed metaphor I accidentally blurted out was "The sort of guy who would steal his grandmother's last sucking egg .....

[Cleo_Serapis]

Very good Alan!

You are the of these responses!

A+

:pharoah2

[Guest__*]

Very good Alan!

You are the of these responses!

A+

:pharoah2

Dear Cleo,

Well thank you kindly !

I'm scouring the web for challenges, ran out of any I could do, so I thought I'd revisit your Wordsworth and other poem phrase ones, and found that you've put up some new stuff.

Thank you for doing that, and for the extra-kind accolade, although I haven't had a drink all night, so I guess the crown is worn rakishly rather than tipsily !

Love
Alan

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hey Alan - anyone can post challenges in here, so if you find any, please post!

Thanks!

~Cleo

[Cleo_Serapis]

Added 5 more mixed metaphors today (Alan)....

Round TWO for you?

[Guest__*]

Dear Cleo,

Sorry to take so long, I was out ! Watching a lad playing soccer in the pouring, horizontal rain. The second we got home, it stopped.


BY THE GRACE OF THE FE-LINE

If I ever suffer the slightest of twinges,
a sliver of hunger that’s wracking my mind,

then I will seek out a saucer of smoothness,
full of fishy or meaty or some of that kind.

I’ll stroll off my perch, stretching all of my four legs,
down to the front left of old kitchen fireplace.

Here there’s a spot you, my servant, have left me
something wettish and creamy, a bowl of true solace,

homage that’s due us because of man’s brevity-
that mere purse of tears compared to our majesty.

Anything less than a chest of light offerings offends me;
to be certain you stay, commit no such gross travesty,

or go the way of Cleopatra, that naughty Egyptian,
now paw-note in history, a mere feline inscription .....

Alan McAlpine Douglas

[Cleo_Serapis]

WOW Alan!

This is AWESOME!

and of COURSE, I love this line:
"or go the way of Cleopatra, that naughty Egyptian,
now paw-note in history, a mere feline inscription "

Cheers!
Cleo

[Guest__*]

Dear Cleo,

Shall we say : an act of homage ?

But where else could a poem about cats domesticating humans end up ?

Love
Alan

[Cleo_Serapis]

Numb Fistfuls Of  Angst And Antipathy

A cradle of hunger, a mile of tears.
A whipping whirlpool of foolish wet fears.
Her body grows older, soul grows younger.
A mile of tears, a cradle of hunger.

A slice of silver, a sliver of tears
Dash her upon jagged rocks of wild years.
Acid emotions etch and dissolve her.
A sliver of tears, a slice of silver.

A saddle of yearning upon bare back
She vaults upon the muscled stallion’s black
To ride risk back-bare, she is still learning
Upon bare back, a saddle of yearning

A fistful of antipathy now numb
Robs hearing and speech ‘til she’s deaf and dumb.
She tries tai chi and homeopathy
Now numb, a fistful of antipathy.

This is a great challenge response CarrieAnn!  :sun:

Cheers!
~Cleo  :cloud9:

P.S. I moved/merged your 'new topic' post into this one as in this forum - we usually reply to the same tile instead of posting new ones (opposite of Pandora)....