dealing with death | Life-Built Poems

Another IPS (Inner Peace Symptom): an understanding that the willingness to stand still in the middle of uncertainty without giving in to despair allows for new opportunities to show up and gives you the space you need to notice them. [If you focus on fears and doubts, there really is no room in your head for paying attention when a new door opens.] Apple founder Steve Jobs had an interesting take on how to deal with the uncertainty of life. …

PILING ON THE METAPHORS

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It is my contention that, basically, poems are piles of metaphors stacked on top of each other like those funny-looking block stacks in a Jenga! game, with holes for the bits you’ve left out (or have taken out) because they were not needed to transport your reader into some other point-of-view. That juxtaposition of metaphors works because of ability of the mind of the listener or the reader to make connections between the images the poet offers up. The audience…