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Cliches Never End
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Cliches Never End |
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John Yaws Senior Member
since 1999-10-09
Posts 860Texas 
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Sands through the hour glass- Leaves on the wind… Last summer’s flowers- Cliches never end. Words which we’ve coined… And phrases we’ve used… Fail to do justice- To things which we lose. Hearts that are broken- The phrase sounds so trite, Describing the agonies… Felt in the night. Forlorn, and lonely? I view these with scorn- When used to describe… All the misery I’ve born. Words are an avenue… Conveying feeling… The depth of emotion- From view they are sealing. Words, like a photograph- In black and white. Hide from our senses… The pathos and fright. Bear our hurt bravely. “Acquit ye like men”- No shortage of clamor- Cliches never end. |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Sometimes those words that we are searching for hide so well, don't they? Sometimes cliches are the best we can do, I think, in conveying some feelings, just because they seem to say it so well, but are best avoided when writing, but that's not an easy task! Of course, this is another great poem!  Denise |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
The challenge with writing poetry is trying to avoid cliches, to say something new. I have words that I love, phrases that have been used in different ways in my poetry used in a new manner but in the end they become over used and cliched. They are very hard to avoid whether you use established ones or ones that you have created yourself. But there is certainity nothing cliched about your poem, great poem. |
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