Metaphoric Poetry

My Life in Metaphors

The sweet Charlie Brown tree
With few white pom poms
Now browned

Just outside my bedroom window
BROKEN

The window 

that opens to the street
EXPOSED 

Shades pulled down
CONFINING

A stolen line from a Dustyvsong

"I ponder my resistance" 

The mental effort
A lesson to be learned
Consider  the metaphor
PAINFUL

I hear Ellen Curley
She calls out my name
Across the rivers
The East River
The Hudson
She beckons me

"Ann Marie ! Ann Marie !"
Opened palms
She claps them
Imploring,
"Close the book!!!" 

Beauty in the eyes of the beholder

I was on the beach collecting rocks, finding the most prettiest rocks to add to my collection. The friend walking beside me reached down to pick up a rock and inspected it just before he handed it to me. It was such an ugly rock! With disdain, I pointed out the ugliness of that rock. Childishly, not considering that I should insult a dear friend. I was merely criticizing a lacking skill at rock collecting! I had no desire to carry this heavy stone. There were several more worthy stones to find along the way. As if to assert that he selected that particular rock with specific intention, he declared, "put it next to the beautiful ones and the beautiful ones will look even more beautiful"

Fly a Kite

Don't Fence Me In

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of society. Humanity would have been spared infinite crimes, wars, homicides, murders, if only someone had ripped up the fences or filled in the ditches and said, "Do not listen to this pretender!"

From Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, Published 1755, Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

SEE Modern History Sourcebook: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality, No 2

Metamorphically Speaking

Morphological typology, in linguistics, a method of classifying languages

Metamorphosis : Transformation

To morph something :  To transform it

METAMORPHOSIS
SERIES
Cycles of Life
Nature's Secrets

UNDERSTANDING DEWEY
571.876 Regeneration (Biology)
591.334 Metamorphosis
597.891 Amphibians -- Metamorphosis
595.789 Butterflies -- Metamorphosis

See also: 571.8891 Regeneration (Biology)
Mitchell, Susan K. Animal body-part regenerators : growing new heads, tails, and legs. NJ : Enslow, c2009..


WORD ORIGINS
IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME
Greek μεταμόρφωσις, - transformation, transforming
meta - μετα- change
morph -μορφή (morfe) - form (see also morphine)
Greek metamórphōsis transformation.
Greek metamorphosis - a transforming
Greek metamorphoun - to transform

FUN WITH DEFINITIONS
Use these resources to look up the definitions. Notice there is more than one definition
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis
From The Online Etymology Dictionary
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Metamorphosis&searchmode=none

DEFINITIONS
Metamorphosis (noun)
1. A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function. Also called transformation.
2. A change in the form and often habits of an animal during normal development after the embryonic stage. Metamorphosis includes, in insects, the transformation of a maggot into an adult fly and a caterpillar into a butterfly and, in amphibians, the
changing of a tadpole into a frog.
3. A usually degenerative pathological change in the structure of a particular body tissue.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical DictionaryCopyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

NOTE: Metamorphic, in geological sense (1833: Lyell)
"Rocks whose form has been changed by heat or pressure."
Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of Geology, Volumes 1-3. London: John Murray. Electronic Scholarly Publishing. ESP.org.

For more information about Charles Lyell (Father of geology) see http://thomashagen.wordpress.com/history-papers/charles-lyell/


SYNONYMS
mutation, transmutation.

ANTONYMS
stasis




FURTHER READING
The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) : A short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.