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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0003 Similes, Metaphors and stuff (2)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Isn’t it strange, this thing called<br>Poetry – and even stranger, these things<br>called similes and metaphors, which are<br>the very essence of what poetry<br>uses to try to get to us? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Look! Over there, in that field! Did you<br>see it? <br>No, what? <br>A hare! Never seen one before! It’s<br>hiding in the grass now – there! It’s jumped up again! <br>watch it bounce up and down as it runs, <br>must have strong hind legs, <br>isn’t it funny? So fast, too – our dog will never catch it…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">No I still didn’t see it, I was watching that beautiful<br>perfect V-formation of wild geese against the blue sky<br>over there, I wonder where they came from, <br>where they’re going? And does<br>their leader know and lead them, or<br>do they all know and they're<br>all on the same goosy wave-length and<br>they must be cleverer than us then, <br>how do they do that...? <br>You missed them, they're<br>out of sight now, so<br>we'll never know...I guess our dog<br>barking, set them off…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And so, our mind – that lively, scatty, playful, faithful dog, <br>chasing hares which catch our idling attention, <br>chasing wild geese which are out of reach, <br>barking up the wrong tree, <br>seeking with a wagging tail<br>the beautiful, elusive good; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Or, like Swami Vivekananda describes, <br>mind as monkey – restless, vain, vindictive, <br>agile, watchful, quick to move, <br>never quite at rest – and worse, <br>intoxicated, selfish, full of pride; and<br>worse again – cunning, drunken, angry, <br>inventing enemies in its divided mind –</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Similes for one thing like another, <br>metaphors for situations which <br>connect in depth of mind like<br>crossword clues which finally<br>illuminate – ah yes, now I see<br>what it’s getting at…and<br>we're into a world of enchantment where<br>the word makes all Creation one, and new...</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Like parables, they take us deeper, subtly<br>tease the mind, and then dart round and past it<br>like wingers on the football field<br>thrilling our attention, their joyous goal<br>touching our heart with the adventure and<br>pointing it towards a boundless love; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">similes, metaphors, homely proverbs, parables –<br>more difficult than thinking, easier than thought, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">magic.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a></strong></div>