Fed upon your metaphors...

Fed upon your metaphors

        like a zombie's lust for blood

 howl'd at the moon in your

            verbose verbiage's alliteration

 piece by piece, like Frankenstein's 

              monster you conjur'd me whole

  sucked out the guts and laid me

         flat in ghostly passages twisted cravings

  dwelling 'tween light and darkness

         assimilated in your inky draft

   

dancing amuck within your tangled webs

       just the other side of nightmare's exposure 

drinking in the sea of your heaving tidal steamers

           punch drunk in phantasmal's obsession

high voltage 

flipped me over like an abstract

               Dali painting's w***e

  I come away ghastly satiated, 

              macabre though it may seem

  thrills and spills in every tempting morsel

            of affecting poetry's sinful appetite

Author's Note

Artwork~ Salvador Dali

Reviews

[icelandicblue]

Wow I couldn't help think about how someone somewhere reads the future using chicken guts. We fall into metaphors so easily we poets forgetting there is a literal meaning to just about everything. And so the trap is set...will we see it before it is too late because I'm a metaphorical girl living in a literal world.

[Frieda P]

Weird thought Anne...chicken guts, there must be a poem in there somewhere, thanks so much Madonna. ;-)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

ha ha, okay Madonna!

i could hear the end of the song being "metaphorical" repeated over and over rather than 'material"

[Frieda P]

Jacob I think you have metaphorical radar haha

[Kristina Moulaison]

I kinda love this review.

[TL Boehm]

high voltage flipped me over like an abstract
Dali painting's w***e
I come away ghastly satiated,
formidable. I never get this from poetry.

[Rita L. Sev]

Really excellent dark images here, Frieda - leaves me afraid to think in abstracts ever again... :)

[Tai Ryens]

Yet another marvelous piece by Frieda speaking of the effect that words have over the mind, the way they seduce us with their macabre contents into swooning to the song of someone else . . . Well done

[paddy d daly]

Ah! go on, you should not have written about me, I am so flattered, haha,...seriously though missus it's beautiful in a beastly kind of way!

[Kristina Moulaison]

This is, like all your words, meaty...something to bite on and chew. I am left thinking about this passion that flows through writers and the blood lust it contains. Maybe it's just me? Perhaps it's just a lust for life, the need to bleed the meaning from the words. I like how you bleed. That didn't sound very good, but still.

[redzone]

Zombies, blood lust, Frankenstein, macabre images and sin, holy Dracula's ghost Mary Shelley, metaphor or reality... redzone is passing out nightlights to any one who needs one, Frieda has taken a job as writer for that tv show "American Horror"...

Frieda how many times have I told you pizza after midnight leds to Daliesque nightmares. And I know with out a single doubt you smiled, then laughed and then danced around your desk as you wrote this poem. Take that you deamons and censor me for my macabre innuendos, HA. ok maybe my own wierd mind, but somehow..er... :-p Frieda you know I love your mind and...er..I mean it's a very scary poem... I think I even heard Dali stirring on this one... ~~red(lightsonfullblast)zone

[Einstein Noodle]

yes ..what Icey has to say ... and last 6 lines are perfect ... we are slaves to it alright .. and you darling Frieda ... explore them to the hilt ... through thick and thin ... over hill and yon ... twisting with the dark edge ... always such a delight and inspiration you are ...
E.

[Rachelle]

Why am I suddenly reminded of ALW's "Cats" and Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd"?

Find someone to do the melody of this one! Quick!

[Frieda P]

Ahh gruesome, thanks for taking it there Rachelle.

[♔ CrownedDevil &#..]

Beautiful write Frieda!

Kaze~

[Frieda P]

Thanks so much Kazie, jazz'd you enjoyed my breakdown. ;-)

[♔ CrownedDevil ☾]

Your very welcome my friend. ;-)

[Baby Ricochet]

That's my most of my writes are so straight forward

[Frieda P]

You still scare me Baby. ;-)