Sarah is the host of Saturday Mix — Mad About Metaphor. Sarah says:
Our metaphor this week is:
– Cotton candy words
I’m not sure if I properly used the cotton candy words here or not. It seems like I did, as he was able to convince her with his words, but the actual words were not spoken. Am I overthinking it??
I met the clown at the fair one day
When we each rode bumper cars
He banged me round the course in play
Til my eyes were seeing stars
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He promised me the moon that night
As we spun on the ferris wheel
His arms like octupi, a fright
As my innocence he tried to steal
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Shushing my fears, he made me laugh
With handsprings and a tune
Words of forevermore cut my fear in half
Under the full moon in June
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The fair, it closed, he held me close
And said that we’d never part
From his clothes he pulled a rose
And won my childish heart
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We slept that night in a caravan
But we didn’t really sleep
At dawn my funny clown had ran
This fool can only weep
Tao Talk 
The bum!
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Tale of lost innocence.
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Always go where the prompt leads… The fair ain’t always fair.
But then neither is life, most often. Best we can do is choose our rides.
Sometimes I think we long to be sweet talked… to boost moral.
I enjoyed your ride of words. Reminded me of a few times in younger daze…
innocence seems to go too soon.
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What you are saying leads me to believe there are metaphors in the poem 🙂
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Clowning around, handsprings, fool… pretty much anything with a double meaning is my take. Metaphor (noun) a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. (and any of the synonyms there of: figure of speech, figurative expression, image, trope, allegory, parable, analogy, comparison, symbol, emblem, word painting, word picture; literary conceit.
and a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.
However all that being said. I am a rebel in regards to rules. 😉
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