metaphor – Page 2 – Jordyn Saelor

52 (4 years later)

It’s never so simple as a tower of cards crumbling like memories, good or bad divided by battle lines.

riven/rend

nail open sponge crust expose soft secret magma lava leaks like blood *** find my first published book at this link find other stories I’ve written here

from one depressed poet to another

So many of my metaphors attempt to describe the ocean of sadness in me, as if to a neighboring world with no water. I am Earth; you are Mars;

Silly humility/frogs in the water

silly humility got me like frogs in the water blinking black soggy eyes, silly humility got me an illusion

I screamed/under the wind

there’s a little brook that falls over a rainbow, and the brook one day asked the rainbow why they kept letting her fall

age

the movers and shapers of the kingdom must be the young: the witches fresh out of school so excited to

9- Retrospect

In retrospect, the destruction of a planet lasts an instant. In the moment, the destruction occurs as a slow peeling apart of mountain from valley, as an unending barrage of raining

Imagine if my insides held a solar system. Here is my stomach, hot and glowing blue, where all the energy radiates from, out through the rest of me. Here is my mind, made of many moons, always admiring the beauty of my pieces. My fingers reach like the distant dwarf planets, cold to touch, andContinue reading “orbital HEART”

All that’s bitter is gold

We’re burning a new plate of bread for your bitter taste buds to enjoy, but wait, make sure you follow our strange customs–don’t eat

Feelin’ kinda sick

got feeling kinda sick like dragging tons of brick in place of every bone, my joints ache my head’s swamped stomach’s heaving taste like bile smell that toilet tile can’t sleep through the headache wanna watch a movie through the fever feed me nothing but heat and I’ll freeze it I’ve got sponges for musclesContinue reading “Feelin’ kinda sick”