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Arts & Humanities: Poetry: “Question: How would you rewrite this poem WITHOUT figures of speech?” plus 5 more

Arts & Humanities: Poetry: “Question: How would you rewrite this poem WITHOUT figures of speech?” plus 5 more


Question: How would you rewrite this poem WITHOUT figures of speech?

Posted: 15 Sep 2016 05:31 PM PDT

Love Poem by John Frederick Nims

My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases,
At whose quick touch all glasses chip and ring,
Whose palms are bulls in china, burs in linen,
And have no cunning with any soft thing

Except all ill-at-ease fidgeting people:
The refugee uncertain at the door
You make at home; deftly you steady
The drunk clambering on his undulant floor.

Unpredictable dear, the taxi drivers' terror,
Shrinking from far headlights pale as a dime
Yet leaping before apopleptic streetcars—
Misfit in any space. And never on time.

A wrench in clocks and the solar system. Only
With words and people and love you move at ease;
In traffic of wit expertly maneuver
And keep us, all devotion, at your knees.

Forgetting your coffee spreading on our flannel,
Your lipstick grinning on our coat,
So gaily in love's unbreakable heaven
Our souls on glory of spilt bourbon float.

Be with me, darling, early and late. Smash glasses—
I will study wry music for your sake.
For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break.

Question: Pleease help! Put the words in three different lists: hungry or greedy eating, neutral words for eating, eating very little or carefully.?

Posted: 15 Sep 2016 04:26 PM PDT

Question: What could be a good ending for this poem? home is like a little dome cozy and warm just like a dome.?

Posted: 15 Sep 2016 03:33 PM PDT

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