I wish I could dream up a meta-phor or five br To keep my poems more poetically alive br I will always be known as the poet who's hacking br If I continue to write poems metaphorically lacking br br Similarly, since I've similies few br My poems can be tasteless as cheeseless fondue br Literature in meters, we refer to as verse br Lacking metaphors or similies, there's nothing much worse br br Those figures of speech, though elusively distant br Should enter my head if my brain is persistant br I'll continue to strive to creatively write br Hoping metaphors and similies come into sightbr br Stanley Cooperbr br