Stop the Metaphors by Bob Atkinson

"STOP THE METAPHORS"

(c)2010 Bob Atkinson

when I was young

before my prime

my grade school teacher

was Miss Similie

she told me to watch

for words contrary

“don't do to the metaphor

what forests do to canaries”

"don't breed them like rabbits

don't make them a habit

or think using them

makes your words grab it"

lately I saw a poet of awe

brag of his powers

to make his words tower

so I looked and I looked

but on metaphors he was hooked

giving his poems that awful look

of what I wrote when ten

igniting the temper 
of Miss Similie
and her learned friends